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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's exactly what services like Netflix, or Amazon UK's video streaming services are: a season ticket to watch video in one particular place. .
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actually, netflix is a season ticket to view from anywhere you can get an internet connection !
It works on every console & tablet we own, as well as on all of our PCs - the same login credentials work for every version of the app. Viewing ( in the same region) sync across all devices - what's not to like! [ well if could cost a lot on 3G / 4G I guess, but I'm a wi-fi only person ]
Amazon is more infuriating :- I have Amazon prime video, & I see them announce - with great fanfare - now you can watch HBO on Prime, & then in very small print (
only if you live in the USA & bought the USA flavor of "prime")
Netflix is a great example of good branding and legal access from anywhere. They also know that lots of their cusomers use geo-location fakery and they really don't care. so I can flip between netflix UK, netflix USA, and netflix-anywhere-else with a couple of mouse clicks. And the quality is so good that it makes no sense to download any movie if it's already on Netflix
Amazon is an example of the opposite - a brand ( prime Instant Video) that means completely different things in different parts of the world - and which delivers a poor 2nd rate service to its UK users. ( including NO subtitles on 99% of content - that latter failing alone could drive me to download a movie that I could otherwise view legally on Prime ). & my latest peeve - arbitrarily removing content then putting it back a few weeks later. ON Prime we got 1/2 way through TV series "the Devils Whore" - went to view e3 on prime - gone - nothing - nada - go to amazon - can I buy the Blu Ray - only in Spanish....-- can I buy the missing episodes even... no - not in the catalog, not for sale....So go to great lengths to find & "acquire" the missing 2 episodes".... and then I'm browsing prime content a few weeks after doing that & it's back on line! - but too late. When it vanished it just vanished, no explanation of why or when/if it was ever coming back.
Netflix would have given a warning saying this show is only available until....
[ I know I'm drifting a tad off topic but this is another example of needs-must piracy, though someone will argue that I didn't
need to know how the story ended, I just
wanted to. ( & don't get me started on libraries who stock parts of series with but with arbitrarily missing titles )