Amazon UK adds TV channels and services to Amazon Prime...for an additional fee

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by KK » Tue May 23, 2017 1:16 pm

With the headline acts being Discovery and Eurosport. They're not cheap, mind.

Guardian/Amazon wrote:Amazon steps up battle with Netflix and Sky by adding new UK channels

Eurosport (up to 18 Live channels): 7 day free trial and then £6.99 a month.
Discovery: 7 day free trial and then £3.99 a month.
ITV Hub+: 7 day free trial and then £3.99 a month.
MGM Movies: 7 day free trial and then £4.49 a month.
ComicConHQ: 14 day free trial and then £4.99 a month
Hayu Reality On-Demand: 30 day free trial and then £3.99 a month.
Motovision.tv: 30 day free trial and then £2.99 a month.
Ello Concerts: 14 day free trial and then £5.99 a month
Ketchup TV Kids Channel: 30 day free trial and then £3.99 a month

Amazon is to add more than 40 TV channels to its UK streaming service, including ITV and live sport for the first time, upping the stakes against rival Netflix and pay-TV operators such as Sky.

Amazon will offer the channels at an extra cost to Amazon Prime members, who pay £79 a year or £7.99 a month for on-demand video including exclusive shows such as American Gods, The Grand Tour and Man in the High Castle.

The individual pricing for the new channels ranges from £1.49 to £9.49 a month, with subscribers choosing and paying for individual services, rather than for a bundle as with the traditional pay-TV model used by Sky. Netflix’s standard video on-demand service costs £7.49 a month while Sky’s cheapest package of channels is £22.

ITV will offer its live TV and ad-free catch-up service for £3.99. Conspicuous by their absence are the UK’s other main free-to-air broadcasters – the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

“We don’t focus on our competitors,” said Alex Green, the managing director of Amazon’s TV channel rollout across Europe. “We focus on how we can improve our service for customers.”

At launch, Amazon is offering channels including Gold Rush broadcaster Discovery and its Eurosport subsidiary, which will lead to Amazon offering live sport for the first time globally, starting with the imminent French Open and Olympic coverage from next year.

Other channels include NBC Universal’s reality TV service Hayu, which has shows such as Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Made in Chelsea and The Real Housewives franchise, and Amazon’s own Bollywood channel Heera.

There will also be films from providers including the BFI and studio MGM, which has movies such as The Hobbit.

“This move represents a massive broadening of content,” said Richard Broughton, an analyst at Ampere. “It makes Amazon increasingly competitive with both Netflix and Sky, although at an increasingly higher price point.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/ ... sport-hayu

In terms of general value I'd say NowTV is better for Entertainment, especially with their offers. Eurosport looks excellent value when compared to Sky Sports and BT, but their programming currently trails the other 2 (a lot of their stuff is shared rights with BBC and ITV).

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by Errkal » Tue May 23, 2017 1:22 pm

Not really all the inspiring at all.

Why can no one just do a service streaming all freeview and freeviewHD channels. TVPlayer comes closest but its £6 for SD only.

I'd also be happier if Amazon would get their gooseberry fool sorted for there to be a NowTV app and Google Music app for the FireTV.

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by Lagamorph » Tue May 23, 2017 1:23 pm

I believe they started doing this in America too with some exclusive anime they licensed but you had to have Prime then pay an additional fee as well.
If this is Live TV then I'd imagine you'll need (legally speaking) a TV license to make use of this service as well.

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by Return_of_the_STAR » Tue May 23, 2017 1:29 pm

Errkal wrote:Not really all the inspiring at all.

Why can no one just do a service streaming all freeview and freeviewHD channels. TVPlayer comes closest but its £6 for SD only.

I'd also be happier if Amazon would get their gooseberry fool sorted for there to be a NowTV app and Google Music app for the FireTV.


I've often thought about this in regards to streaming of all freeview and freeview hd.

This new amazon offering isn't very good.

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by Errkal » Tue May 23, 2017 1:32 pm

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:
Errkal wrote:Not really all the inspiring at all.

Why can no one just do a service streaming all freeview and freeviewHD channels. TVPlayer comes closest but its £6 for SD only.

I'd also be happier if Amazon would get their gooseberry fool sorted for there to be a NowTV app and Google Music app for the FireTV.


I've often thought about this in regards to streaming of all freeview and freeview hd.

This new amazon offering isn't very good.


Yup, it can be done using a Kodi add-on but yeah it seems daft Freeview themselves dont offer it. Would be nice to have an app and cast to chromecast or a FireTV app.

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by TigaSefi » Tue May 23, 2017 1:33 pm

CRAP!

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by Winckle » Tue May 23, 2017 1:36 pm

Who watches any of that shite?

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by KK » Tue May 23, 2017 2:09 pm

£3.99 for the privilege of ad-free ITV. Or you could just, I dunno, record it.

(insert: it's ITV, why the strawberry float are you watching it at all joke here)

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by Garth » Tue May 23, 2017 2:14 pm

Incredibly uninspiring.

“We don’t focus on our competitors” = they know it's gooseberry fool.

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by Ecno » Tue May 23, 2017 2:28 pm

Can't you get Eurosport for £40 a year from Eurosport? Who would pay £72 for it?

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by KK » Tue May 23, 2017 2:29 pm

Going on the Eurosport website, it's £5.99. So Amazon are charging you a £1 more for the privilege of having it through them. Bargain!

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by Errkal » Tue May 23, 2017 2:32 pm

KK wrote:Going on the Eurosport website, it's £5.99. So Amazon are charging you a £1 more for the privilege of having it through them. Bargain!


Not only that but you won't be able t use lots of the devices you can use for other things due to Amazon being Amazon.

Amazon Prime Video would be so much more used if it didn't need sideloading on Android and supporting casting and stuff.

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by Ironhide » Tue May 23, 2017 2:51 pm

None of those 'channels' appeal to me in the slightest.

Amazon can piss right off with this business of adding extra cost to the already slightly too expensive Prime service though, I quite like the idea of their music streaming service but like hell am I paying an extra £7.99 a month for it.

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by Poser » Tue May 23, 2017 3:03 pm

I ditched Amazon Prime a couple of months ago.

Feels good, man.

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by Irene Demova » Tue May 23, 2017 3:06 pm

Feels like streaming wants to become and more expensive and more gooseberry fool version of regular tv.

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by Lagamorph » Tue May 23, 2017 3:17 pm

Irene Demova wrote:Feels like streaming wants to become and more expensive and more gooseberry fool version of regular tv.

Yeah, 'cord cutting' was supposed to be the way cheaper way to go and now it's starting to end up just as expensive since everyone wants their own streaming service, so you suddenly need Netflix, Amazon, NowTV and loads of studio specific services to get everything you want. It suddenly makes sticking with Sky/Virgin Media/BT the cheaper all around option again.

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by Garth » Tue May 23, 2017 3:27 pm

Lagamorph wrote:
Irene Demova wrote:Feels like streaming wants to become and more expensive and more gooseberry fool version of regular tv.

Yeah, 'cord cutting' was supposed to be the way cheaper way to go and now it's starting to end up just as expensive since everyone wants their own streaming service, so you suddenly need Netflix, Amazon, NowTV and loads of studio specific services to get everything you want. It suddenly makes sticking with Sky/Virgin Media/BT the cheaper all around option again.

Easier to find a sturdy ship and a good crew to sail in her, then take to the high seas!

Of course, I wouldn't endorse such brigandry.

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by Errkal » Tue May 23, 2017 3:35 pm

Lagamorph wrote:
Irene Demova wrote:Feels like streaming wants to become and more expensive and more gooseberry fool version of regular tv.

Yeah, 'cord cutting' was supposed to be the way cheaper way to go and now it's starting to end up just as expensive since everyone wants their own streaming service, so you suddenly need Netflix, Amazon, NowTV and loads of studio specific services to get everything you want. It suddenly makes sticking with Sky/Virgin Media/BT the cheaper all around option again.


Even with a "traditional" sub you miss loads.

I pretty much have everything I had with Sky now with Now TV, Amazon, Netflix etc. and Kodi for Freeview over the web and it is considerably cheaper than just Sky, espcially as with Sky I would still need Netflix and Amazon. My issue now is a device to do it all that is cheap.

I currently have 2 devices to do it all, an Amazon Fire TV for everything except for NowTV and Google Music which is done on a Chromecast. I also use an app called TV Time that tracks shows I am watching for what episodes are next and stuff.

Its a bit of work to do but you can get everything for a reasonable amount, assuming you are cool not recording and watching gooseberry fool before it drops off of catchup.

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PostRe: Amazon UK adds TV channels and services to Amazon Prime...for an additional fee
by Moggy » Tue May 23, 2017 3:35 pm

Do Eurosport actually have 18 channels? It's mostly shite on the two Eurosport channels that I'm aware of, it must be utter dross on the other 16!

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by Errkal » Tue May 23, 2017 3:36 pm

Moggy wrote:Do Eurosport actually have 18 channels? It's mostly shite on the two Eurosport channels that I'm aware of, it must be utter dross on the other 16!


http://uk.eurosportplayer.com/tvschedule.shtml


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