[Closed] How do you watch films these days?

Sky Movies, watch when they come on for free unless it’s something I really want to watch sooner, then I’ll wait until it’s rentable.

Same with iTunes.

Limitless pass for the cinema
Netflix/Prime for most stuff
Now TV Cinema pass for better value with films, occasional rental from Google

Same as I've always done .... with my minced pies.

😛

Mainly download as a torrent and watch on an iMac (we don't have a TV). Some we watch on Amazon Prime / Netflix, but their selection is a bit rubbish.

I've got Prime via work and Netflix I pay for.

You can rent most things from iTunes and I do occasionally.

I will admit I torrent more than I rent, it's easier and I can get films in 4K which I can't via iTunes.

Netflix and terrestrial.
I love going to the cinema,some films only work on big screen.
I also still buy DVDs of films I like.

Exactly the same as FastHaggis

I will admit I torrent more than I rent, it’s easier and I can get films in 4K which I can’t via iTunes.

This is part of the problem for me - I am happy renting where I can - however if I rent through iTunes, I am unable to watch it on my TV, so no point.

Cinema. Those 5 quid seats are the best thing to happen in years. Well done whoever decided they had to compete with people's tellys. Even with the morons who can't shut up or switch their phones off, you still can't beat seeing a film on the big screen.

Few torrents via Plex/Chromecast (about 3 or 4 a year probably)

and Netflix.

Fairly cheap and easy solution to that
https://store.google.com/product/chromecast?gclid=CjwKCAiAmO3gBRBBEiwA8d0Q4s07B3PEOJs3Asy2A2mKXqu4uHOn00kBISJr_ghujIKNFyEpunEKNhoCIakQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&srp=/product/chromecast_2015
Just swap itunes for google play and off you go

ip box. either sky movies or pages and pages of other film channels.

TeaTV app. Chromecast built in.

Revert to paying at Google Play if TeaTV can’t find a decent, non-buffering version not recorded on someone’s mobile at the cinema or without Korean subtitles.

Streamed via fire stick or chromecast (so Netflix and Google play). Really can't be bothered with torrents and tracking them done, did it for a while before streaming really got going.

Who’s doing £5 cinema tickets?

So given how easy it is to get exactly what you want legally, is piracy just people being tight these days?

is piracy just people being tight these days?

Tight, or maybe skint (from going to the cinema too much 😉 , but sometimes it's the only option when you want to see something NOW!
Last film I dl'ed (American Animals), I haven't even watch yet. It's on iTunes, but I don't think I can stream to my TV from iTunes.

DVD/Bluray

https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/American_Animals?id=3hxblXqCBQ8&hl=en_US
So it's not quite out yet? If Itunes is so shit then swap for something that actually works.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/American-Animals-DVD-Evan-Peters/dp/B07H4TQBV9
And yes not released on streaming/dvd etc until 19th Jan.

Netflix, Prime, going to the cinema with mates if it is something I really want to see. Often splitting the cost of the BluRay with mates when it gets released and rip it to my HD.
Not seen Predator or Venom, (released this week) so they'll be on my Xmas watch list.

Prime & Netflix and occasional torrents

It may be easy to get the films you want legally but the cost adds up. I used to stream to a Kodi box, quality was decent enough but I've gone back to being fully legit.
Netflix for the kids, generally works well as has a decent amount of trash that they watch. Sky Movies for me and the wife, kids also get to watch sky but thats on the "family" TV, there's only so many times I can watch films about Princes and Mermaids.
I try and avoid renting, but some months I will. Just rented The Equaliser 2 and missus loves Denzel so was worth it. I might rent The Meg tomorrow night, be a good night in, bottle of wine, some popcorn and Jason Statham fighting a huge shark, sounds good to me!

So given how easy it is to get exactly what you want legally, is piracy just people being tight these days?

This is kind of what I was wondering - of the MCU films, I could buy most of them online (at a cost of £14.00 for infinity war in HD) so that & could rent Ant-Man & Wasp for £4.49 (also HD) Given Ant-Man & Wasp is currently the only one available to rent, the cost would soon add up if I bought them all.
This seems to me like the movie industry shooting itself in the foot again. If they were available to rent for a smaller price, say £2.00 each I would've rented all the ones that I didn't have.

Even with the morons who can’t shut up or switch their phones off

Dez You need to find an Art house cinema venue .Almost everyone at ours shutsTFU right from the start of the film,no phones or eating the contents of a small shop.Makes it a totally different experience ,I only go to the big multi screens for the full on action blockbuster films. 🙂

https://www.nowtv.com/gb/watch/thor-the-dark-world-2013/bdcd32276d793610VgnVCM1000000b43150a____
Now TV Sky Cinema free trial would get you a lot of those Marvel Ones, there is a bit of pick and choose the source going on - I was offered Sky Cinema & Sports for a month on a cheap deal last week.

Dez You need to find an Art house cinema venue

Yep, we've got a couple, and they're great - but it's the blockbusters.. hard to get a 16yo into arthouse stuff 🙂
Biggest film I had ruined this year was A Quiet Place... went to a late night showing and there was (unfortunately) a disabled person in there making random loud noises all the way through. I mean, of all the films... but what can you do?!

Hardly ever.

We have an 8 yo who is a night owl and won’t go to sleep at a sensible time in the evenings, so non-kids films are out.

And if we ask if she wants to watch a family film at the weekend she refuses. Same for taking her to the cinema.

So we end up recording films from Sky (broadband too slow for any sort of streaming/downloading) and never watching them....

So given how easy it is to get exactly what you want legally, is piracy just people being tight these days?

I can only speak for myself, but that's certainly part of it.

It's a really bad excuse, but a lot of films are pretty terrible these days, I think they always had been, but back in the day when you went to the Shop to rent a tape/disc for £4 or whatever you'd jolly well watch the sucker even if it was shit, now with virtually limitless options if I get a wiff a film is a stinker, I'll turn it off after 20 mins. £4.5 is a bit of a gamble for a tight arse like me.

Films I'm really desperate to watch, I can get sooner via nefarious ways, and I'm not talking about some terrible Handicam footage or some grainy 'HD' copy with Korean subs or anything - most stuff is available 2/3 weeks before it is on iTunes et al in perfect, or near perfect HD for a sub 2GB download, that's about 5 mins at home for me. 4k stuff is a little rarer, but with a bit of work it's down the pipe and in my external HDD in the back of the telly in about half an hour. You can't even get most of them unless you want to order the 4K disc from Amazon and wait a few days.

I think the 'Industry' knows they're in trouble with home viewers, physical media sales are down and downloads are too, eventually it'll all be via subscription streaming, but at the moment the studios don't want to work with Prime or Netflix, they want their own service, but does the public want a disney sub, a universal sub, etc etc.

It'll work itself out, I used to torrent music too, but since Apple music I don't, if I had to wait 2 years to stream a song and then hope they didn't drop it after 3 months I still would.

is piracy just people being tight these days?

In my case no, e.g. I used to pirate all my music but since Spotify I can't recall pirating any music.

If I could access movies in the same manner I'd happily pay, just I can't. The whole streaming thing is so fragmented / limited and the output formats are too restrictive. Torrenting gives me the best user experience independent of cost, which is why I do it.

In some cases I torrent stuff which I could watch on Netflix, just so I don't have to worry about the internet crapping out on Sunday evening when everyone else uses it and Virgin grinds to a halt in our street (although not done that for a while now).

The whole streaming thing is so fragmented / limited and the output formats are too restrictive. Torrenting gives me the best user experience independent of cost, which is why I do it.

The industry never seems to realise that people are lazy. They will always seek out the easiest option.
However - as Spotify isn't actually profitable, I suspect the movie route won't go down this way, & we'll end up with Amazon, Netflix & maybe Disney streaming services.
http://fortune.com/2018/05/03/spotify-earnings/

itunes and netflix on the projector. Cinema one a month or so.

No superheroes and no children's book adaptations is my rule. Serves me well.

On aeroplanes mostly. 😕

Failing that, DVDs when they're going cheap, or TV.

This is list is updated fairly frequently, it is mostly rubbish though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fullmoviesonyoutube/

I suspect the movie route won’t go down this way, & we’ll end up with Amazon, Netflix & maybe Disney streaming services.

It's going in the other direction e.g. Disney pulling content off Netflix so it can launch it's own streaming service....

Increasingly buying from iTunes as the value is pretty impressive, eg. this weeks splurge;

Every Bond film in 4K at £2.99 each

But also Netflix occasionally, Amazon very very occasionally, cinema maybe twice a year, and torrents when other methods fail.

Nextflix, prime, and the ocassional dodgy stream/torret. Very rarely I'll buy something from Google or curzon home cinema. I'll go to the pictures now and then, few time a year. The new recliners at the odeons these days are great!

Unlimited cinema pass, sky movies and Itunes for me. Can't remember the last time I bought a DVD (10 years?)

Prime, cinema and occasionally terrestrial still. Watch plenty of short programmes on tablet but prefer telly for a film.

Is it just me or does anyone else still feel a frisson when a film you love unexpectedly pops up on terrestrial? I happened to tune in to Ice Cold in Alex the other day - seen it dozens of times and have the dvd but still sat and watched, and thoroughly enjoyed it!

Who’s doing £5 cinema tickets?

I watched The Greatest Showman in Darlington for £4.99.

Sky Movies or Netflix, takes me quite a few nights to get through a film now. Used to be able to sit through a couple a night but now-a-days I can't seem to watch anything film length without getting distracted unless it's absolutely amazing.

Rarely.

I used to be a bit of a film nut and collected hundreds of DVDs, importing a lot of stuff, and would be at the cinema monthly.

Cinema got less over time but DVD buying was strong with the home cinema set up.

Then it all got complicated with HD with the format war initially and then a reluctance to watch the DVDs I've got because I could get it in HD but then could never decide if I really want to splash out on a disc upgrade (and some being inferior releases but in HD). Then streaming in HD becomes viable but I won't buy stuff, only do the freebies (Prime).

Add to that, come an evening and think about sitting down for 2ish hours to watch a film and I'm finding I don't have the time or feel in the mood to set aside a couple of hours.

Got neighbours with young family now and cranking up the home cinema late at night I feel is being an arse, but I'm rarely home early enough for early night film. I prefer to watch films lights down but in summer it's too light until late.

Plus everything post 2005 I find I have no interest in. Especially the Marvel / CGfest stuff. I can't keep up with that stuff.

And there are bike rides to be done, even at night, which is more of a priority for me these days.

In short I end up not bothering. I've got a pile of Blu Rays (and HD DVDs, DVDs even!) still sat unwatched.

On aeroplanes mostly

+1, very rarely watch films without a nice steward or stewardess to bring me drinks as required.

netflix and mubi, Mubi is ok but some of the content is a bit too niche and was about to ditch it for filmstruck but they closed last month and i’m waiting for the new criterion/collection/time warner service to be announced (hopefully)
i watch a lot of european/arthouse/classic films so not interested in latest hollywood blockbusters or at least happy to wait for films like Arrival, gravity, interstellar etc when they are streaming.

not in the habit of renting a film for £6-£10, would rather pay £15 and watch that at the cinema.

also am about to become an everyman member as there is a new cinema refurbished by then 2 min walk away.
i don't care how cheap the seats are i never go to mainstream cinemas like Vue/odeon, too many mouth breathers in love with their own voices, fast food and mobile phones.

never got into buying DVD’s own about 20-30 and most of those were gifts not purchases.

Who’s doing £5 cinema tickets?

Vue seemed to start it. The one near BPW has been doing it for ages, but it's now spread to Portsmouth and I presume others.
Odeon, I didn't know until I took kid to see Bumblebee last weekend.

Generally we'll decide as a couple the film that we'd like to watch.

The next day i'll have found which one of the streaming services etc have said film, then we'll have an issue casting it to the telly or something.

Next day wife will fall asleep on the sofa at 8pm

Next day we'll have a boat load of house admin to do

Then i'll want to do a ride on Zwift

We've not watched a film in ages :/

i don’t care how cheap the seats are i never go to mainstream cinemas like Vue/odeon, too many mouth breathers in love with their own voices, fast food and mobile phones.

Odeon on Deansgate, pick any film and do a mid week 5:40/6pm screening and it will be empty, especially a week after release. Been great so far even for some of the most popular films I'd go as far to say as nearly 100% code compliant.

Cinema (getting rarer), Netflix, Amazon Prime and torrents. Generally prefer box set shows these days to films as I think the quality of the first has went through the roof and the quality of the latter through the floor.

Netflix and prime for all my media really, used to torrent everything but now I’m happy paying the £13 or so a month for Netflix, prime video and music and free delivery. Fantastic value compared to the likes of sky, can’t fathom the whole thing of paying to watch adverts.

Since I’ve found a cinema with £3.60 tickets I’ve started going once a week again as well, used to be like £11 a go in Birmingham - I’m tempted to get limitless tickets for 12 months for us for Christmas.

i forgot about Torrents, i dont know much about them but i’m not a freetard or a thief, got a few friends who work in the film industry and have no intention of stealing content that a lot of people have worked hard to create.

i take a dim view of people stealing my content (also my livelihood) and would be a hypocrite if i did the same.

very rarely watch films without a nice steward or stewardess to bring me drinks as required.

Ever get that moment when they bring a top up just as the film gets to the boobies on show part?

Netflix and Amazon Prime, but since it's rare I find anything I want to to watch, it's maybe once every couple of months I actually do watch a movie. The rest of the time it's box-sets.

The movie catalogues are not great, but I think overall, I just find it really hard to pick something. When you went into a video shop, back in the olden days, you went straight to the New Releases... I'm not even sure where you can watch new releases these days (Sky)? Or you might be looking for something specific and wander around the Genres. If you do this on Amazon or Netflix, you seem to find yourself scrolling past the same 10 movies in every genre you pick.

For such huge brands, it surprises me how much they fail to provide inspiration.

Netflix, Amazon on a rare occasion NowTV as it's poor streaming quality.

Gave up on dodgy boxes and torrents as they're often crap and well it is stealing.

I’m not even sure where you can watch new releases these days (Sky)?

Film releases still follow the same pattern, Cinema, DVD/Streaming for rent/sale, Reduced as it's not new, then release to the various services for broardcast/streaming.
People must still be paying a premium for the DVD/BluRay version or to stream it on day 1, Sky see it as a money maker too hence sky cinema. So they are milking it as much as they can before they let it go to everyone.

Remember when the biggest announcement at Christmas was what the BBC/ITV were showing as a premiere