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The UK streaming war continues fiercely with Amazon’s LoveFilm still trading blows with Netflix. The latest round in the revived firefight sees LoveFilm secure an exclusive multi-year deal with Universal for such gems as the Tetris Battleship movie, Kick-Ass and Bourne Legacy.
It’s great news if you’re a LoveFilm Instant subscriber, as you’ll finally be able to get the likes of Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Green Zone and Johnny English Reborn streamed to your goggle box. For F1 fans, Senna is also included in the mix, which is a must-watch for anyone interested in the sport.
Grabbing exclusives is great for the individual services and all, but for us consumers it’s not such a massive boon. Yes, we’ll finally get streams of a load of relatively decent movies we couldn’t before. But to get access to all the various movie studios, we’re going to end up having to pay for more than one streaming service. It’s a good job they’re relatively cheap at this penny-pinching double-dipping time.
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Still don’t get the excitement about this sort of thing
‘yay…I can pay extra to watch a movie streamed – rather than just wait for it to come in the post, because I already pay for that service, as well as streaming older movies for no extra cost’
I do understand that it’s the studios making that call – but refuse to pay more for it.
Hopefully one of them will cave in – because of the higher postage costs and, of course, how much they’ll save reducing how many DVD’s/Blu-rays get made
Lovefilm instant is £4.99 a month
DVD only is £5.99 a month.
Why wait a few days for a DVD to arrive when you can pay less and watch immediately? The £5.99 package is also limited to 3 disks per month, Instant gives you as many streamed movies as you want.
What I meant is – the blockbuster ‘just released’ films, aren’t included in the instant price.
If you pay for lovefilm instant – and wanted to watch war horse – you’ll still pay £3.49 for that 1 movie – on top of your £4.99 a month
I’m on the instant and disc for £9.99 a month. So I get the free streaming movies…and the latest released movies on disc.
So I can watch all the free streamed movies & war horse & sherlock holmes – a game of shadows & whatever else, for £9.99
Instant only means – you can watch the free streamed & those other 2 movies for £11.97 + more £’s for any other just released movies
I’ve said it before…
I want a .mkv file or similarly open format that I can do whatever the hell I want with. These should be available in properly encoded full 1080p to download.
For new releases I want a self-deleting 7-day rental version available for less than £5 and a paid-for permanent version available for between £10-£15. There should be options for local storage as well as an option to stream your library at 720p from the cloud (from which you can download ad hoc as you might with something like iCloud).
Until then…you’re all wasting my time and you’re driving me to the shady world of Newsgroups/Usenet. It happened with music…now it needs to happen with visual media…
Unfortunately with the self deleting file, people will work out how to remove the restriction. Making a 7-day rental version last forever.
I can finally watch Paul.
Ugh. I just wish Amazon would go ahead and merge Lovefilm into their VOD service. That way my prime membership would get me streaming for free.