Netflix vs Prime vs Apple TV
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For me Netflix has a massive catalogue and a great interface but barely 5% of the shows are actually any good.
Apple TV has very few shows but most are high quality.
Prime is somewhere in the middle, which also has an annoying habit of charging for stuff previously free, particularly when you’re halfway through a series for example.
I think I will cancel Netflix.
Apple TV has very few shows but most are high quality.
Prime is somewhere in the middle, which also has an annoying habit of charging for stuff previously free, particularly when you’re halfway through a series for example.
I think I will cancel Netflix.
For just TV content & interface, Netflix wins.
But if I could only retain one, then it’s Amazon - the added utility of prime delivery, kindle, music & photo storage makes it cracking value and near indispensable.
On a related note, I still can’t believe DAZN is still just £1.99 pm in the UK. Won’t last, of course.
But if I could only retain one, then it’s Amazon - the added utility of prime delivery, kindle, music & photo storage makes it cracking value and near indispensable.
On a related note, I still can’t believe DAZN is still just £1.99 pm in the UK. Won’t last, of course.
UnclePat said:
For just TV content & interface, Netflix wins.
But if I could only retain one, then it’s Amazon - the added utility of prime delivery, kindle, music & photo storage makes it cracking value and near indispensable.
On a related note, I still can’t believe DAZN is still just £1.99 pm in the UK. Won’t last, of course.
DAZN???But if I could only retain one, then it’s Amazon - the added utility of prime delivery, kindle, music & photo storage makes it cracking value and near indispensable.
On a related note, I still can’t believe DAZN is still just £1.99 pm in the UK. Won’t last, of course.
Scrump said:
I have Netflix, Prime and Disney.
Netflix is the one that gets used the most and by some considerable margin.
I have the same services. Netflix is the one that gets used the most and by some considerable margin.
Disney is mainly for the kids though I do intend to work throguh the Marvel films at some point.
Netflix is my main source of television media.
Amazon is ok but its really a side benefit of having Amazon Prime for the delivery services, I probably wouldn't pay for the TV service as a stand alone product.
Lexington59 said:
For me Netflix has a massive catalogue and a great interface but barely 5% of the shows are actually any good.
Apple TV has very few shows but most are high quality.
Prime is somewhere in the middle, which also has an annoying habit of charging for stuff previously free, particularly when you’re halfway through a series for example.
I think I will cancel Netflix.
Agree, but is there enough content on Apple to sustain a sub? We subscribe about one month in six and still run out by end of month. Apple TV has very few shows but most are high quality.
Prime is somewhere in the middle, which also has an annoying habit of charging for stuff previously free, particularly when you’re halfway through a series for example.
I think I will cancel Netflix.
Netflix has a lot of tosh, but it's good for background TV and kids stuff like Hey Duggee. So it wins a perm sub.
Prime TV is just a perk for the main delivery aspect, I watch the odd show like expanse but rarely browse.
We tend to do one month on, two months off for disney. Lots of nostalgia.
What's the realistic cost of these various TV packages?
How do they compare with Sky for both cost and content?
I'd dearly love to kick out Sky, change over to high speed fibre broadband from an independent provider, get a new wireless network in the house and live happily ever after. But is it feasible? Sky Q, for all its absurd cost and wobbly wifi, seems to cover a lot of ground.
How do they compare with Sky for both cost and content?
I'd dearly love to kick out Sky, change over to high speed fibre broadband from an independent provider, get a new wireless network in the house and live happily ever after. But is it feasible? Sky Q, for all its absurd cost and wobbly wifi, seems to cover a lot of ground.
Netflix & Disney + gets used the most especially Disney with the little one, Prime I watch a lot and I’ll keep it as we buy from Amazon & prime music HD is great (found it better that Quobuz/Tidal)
NowTV I had free for 3 months then went to cancel it and they offered it for £1.99 p/m so kept it, and after 2 years it’s finally gone up to £4.99 p/m. Contents not bad on there but I’ll probably bin it if it goes up in price.
Apple TV came free for 12 months with my iPhone, really not impressed with it, I’ll cancel this when the free trials up. (How may times can you re-watch Greyhound.....)
NowTV I had free for 3 months then went to cancel it and they offered it for £1.99 p/m so kept it, and after 2 years it’s finally gone up to £4.99 p/m. Contents not bad on there but I’ll probably bin it if it goes up in price.
Apple TV came free for 12 months with my iPhone, really not impressed with it, I’ll cancel this when the free trials up. (How may times can you re-watch Greyhound.....)
griffin dai said:
Netflix & Disney + gets used the most especially Disney with the little one, Prime I watch a lot and I’ll keep it as we buy from Amazon & prime music HD is great (found it better that Quobuz/Tidal)
NowTV I had free for 3 months then went to cancel it and they offered it for £1.99 p/m so kept it, and after 2 years it’s finally gone up to £4.99 p/m. Contents not bad on there but I’ll probably bin it if it goes up in price.
Apple TV came free for 12 months with my iPhone, really not impressed with it, I’ll cancel this when the free trials up. (How may times can you re-watch Greyhound.....)
I only managed about 30 mins of Greyhound !NowTV I had free for 3 months then went to cancel it and they offered it for £1.99 p/m so kept it, and after 2 years it’s finally gone up to £4.99 p/m. Contents not bad on there but I’ll probably bin it if it goes up in price.
Apple TV came free for 12 months with my iPhone, really not impressed with it, I’ll cancel this when the free trials up. (How may times can you re-watch Greyhound.....)
rockin said:
What's the realistic cost of these various TV packages?
How do they compare with Sky for both cost and content?
I'd dearly love to kick out Sky, change over to high speed fibre broadband from an independent provider, get a new wireless network in the house and live happily ever after. But is it feasible? Sky Q, for all its absurd cost and wobbly wifi, seems to cover a lot of ground.
Very feasible. I think we pay about 25 quid a month for prime, Netflix and Disney. How do they compare with Sky for both cost and content?
I'd dearly love to kick out Sky, change over to high speed fibre broadband from an independent provider, get a new wireless network in the house and live happily ever after. But is it feasible? Sky Q, for all its absurd cost and wobbly wifi, seems to cover a lot of ground.
I accidentally knocked the satellite dish out of whack when painting the house a couple of months ago and haven’t been bothered to get the ladder out. That’s just freeview - but it goes goes to show how dominant these services are becoming vs traditional offerings.
Edited by aparna on Saturday 29th May 21:27
Scrump said:
I have Netflix, Prime and Disney.
Netflix is the one that gets used the most and by some considerable margin.
Those are the three that I've ended up with. Netflix is the one that gets used the most and by some considerable margin.
Prime is a function of prime membership, Netflix was to get a wider range of content and Disney was for the Mandalorian.
Disney:
I find their content generally very low brow. The educational stuff seems mostly pitched at 'Nazi v Shark' sort of early C5 level and the kids stuff is mainly banal content that my children don't even bother with.
Prime:
I enjoy some of their bespoke content. The upselling is annoying but the product is supposed to be free with the postal membership. That said, I'm not entirely seeing the point these days of the membership. I don't really need anything delivered next day and a lot of it isn't next day any longer and has pricing that includes a hefty postage charge. As such I find myself have gone from the annual subscription being about postage with free TV to paying for the TV with a postage thing that isn't really of any value.
Netflix:
I added this for wider content. Like Amazon it lacks documentaries and seems really rather obsessed with Nazis but also like Prime it has some very good house content and a reasonable range of third party content.
Rounding up, I think I'll end Disney with a view to adding it back for a month each year to grab the good stuff that has accumulated. Maybe it's the sort of thing to add for Christmas each year.
Netflix and Amazon I generally like but if it were simple to do then I'd actually run them on quarterly rotation.
What I think is needed is some kind of third party service for content where you can have a single monthly fee that's roughly equivalent to a single service and allows you to seamlessly switch between them on a monthly or quarterly basis.
Disney - just so many classics that can be watched over and over again, the Star Wars and Marvel stuff is also worth having this for.
Netflix - Gets used the most, the catalogue is huge and also has a lot of international stuff, my wife loves K-Drama
Apple - Never really got into their content, Ted Lasso, Greyhound, For All Mankind were excellent. I had this for free, not sure I’d pay for it.
Prime - Mixed feelings, not as good as Hulu Plus or Netflix, lot of crappy or old content. Annoying having some things paid and unpaid
Hulu Plus - 2nd to Netflix IMO, some really good content, especially series. Needs a DNS service or VPN
Netflix - Gets used the most, the catalogue is huge and also has a lot of international stuff, my wife loves K-Drama
Apple - Never really got into their content, Ted Lasso, Greyhound, For All Mankind were excellent. I had this for free, not sure I’d pay for it.
Prime - Mixed feelings, not as good as Hulu Plus or Netflix, lot of crappy or old content. Annoying having some things paid and unpaid
Hulu Plus - 2nd to Netflix IMO, some really good content, especially series. Needs a DNS service or VPN
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