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The cosy Sky Movies domination of the big-name film scene might be about to come to an end, if quotes from the boss of Netflix are to be believed.
Reed Hastings, the founder and chief exec of the streaming movie service, has claimed he’s ready to take the battle to Sky and will attempt to snatch the first-showing film rights from the satellite broadcaster.
Hastings said: “We will be really aggressive in our bidding. It may be that we win in the first round. It may be that it takes two or three years, but we’re incredibly confident that we will win the bidding for some of Pay 1.”
Pay 1 is what you might call the rights to show the biggest films first. Any win here would seriously damage Sky’s reputation of being the best place to watch films and also give Netflix some serious future blockbusters to stake a claim to.
Meanwhile, Netflix says it has already breached the 1m user limit in the UK and Ireland, only seven months after its high-profile arrival. [Telegraph]
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I just canceled. Catalogue is just too small at the moment. Got through most of what i wanted to watch in the first 2 weeks. Nice service all in all, and might consider signing back up once the catalogue grows again. Or this happens.
It’ll be interesting to see just how much Amazon and Netflix can squeeze Sky – I’d love to see the Sky packages on offer if they do lose the rights, especially as VM are looking at implementing both Netflix & LoveFilm apps on TiVo, with a dedicated broadband pipe to stream the content….
likewise, cancelled after the second month. They are going to have to get some content to get me back.
its great for tv shows and rubbish for films, lovefilm seems to be the opposite!
I thought the same then came upon the bright idea of using an american proxy and boom.. access to all of Netflix’s american catalogue here in good old blighty
Ya, but can you get to the american content with your uk account? I would have thought not. So did you take out an american netflix account?
Netflix will give you whatever library happens to correspond to the country you’re currently in. So when travelling in the US with a UK Netflix account you only get the US library.
So then if you wanted to access the US content from here you would constantly need to use a US proxy, rather than just when you sign up? My streaming is already bloody slow enough!
Giggidy….resubscribes…
Yes, I have it on my PS3, Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7. The US one is truly superior to the UK one. And I have no problem streaming it either. Absolutely love Netflix, so much that I’m considering cancelling my multiroom (even though I get it for free) just because the box hasn’t been turned on in 2 months. That’s how much I use Netflix.
took a trial for this about 3 months ago, and couldn’t sign up for the membership quickly enough! even though their UK catalog sounds much more restricted than that they offer in the US, they still have a wonderful library of good shows streaming on HD to my TV via my xbox. And if im in the midle of watching something but feel like having a lie down, I can keep watching it on my smartphone in the comfort of my bed.
This article makes me even happier to have indeed subscribed since it shows they are commited to expand their librabry further and with newer releases, which will be wonderfull in the long run. Now, if only they could put Californication series 4 up, I won’t have to go out and buy it
there is a series 4 of Calafornication?!?! finished the end of that yesterday, absolutly gutted haha. was annoyed that the second to last episode didnt have any sound to it apart from backing track! that was shit like lol. doubt they will put S4 up anytime soon tho
as still waiting for the next series of Misfits to be put on and have done for about 7 months lol.
I do believe they are airing series 5 in the US at the moment, or at least filming it. and ye, I seem to recall there being an episode without sound, but I think I tried it on my pc as oposed to the xbox and that was ok. can’t quite recall though. it was either that or I turned the subtitles on
so if they are airing S5 in US at the minute, that means Netflix will get hold of it in maybe 10 years. lol i cant watch something with subtitles, i cant get to grips with reading a telly, just cant let myself do it, lazy i no but thats what lazy people do isnt it?! lol
ahah, see, where I was born everything had subtitles on, so you get used to it. having said that, I hate subtitles because whenever their on screen, even if I don’t need them, my eyes always focus on them, and you end up missing so much of what is going on the screen
Californication S5 finished airing in the States in April I think. It was goooood…
your not helping!!! I don’t want to torrent, but I’m not sure I can cope with waiting much longer for series 4 and 5. I might just buy the s4 box set if I can find it somewhere at a decent price, and take it from there
you’re*, where’s the edit button!
You haven’t even seen Season 4?! This is why people Torrent!!
I know, but I feel guilty when I torrent
fight fight fight
Torrents are terrible. Direct download!!!