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that'll be handy for about 6 months.
The funny thing is that sky are supportive of the change and gearing up for it (according to the news item i reads a few months ago) so maybe they still expect to be part of the single market.
retro83
They already are apps on my Freesat HD box, so the implementation is not a problem for me personally. Guess smart TVs will roll out apps shortly too if they haven’t already.
But the whole reason I like netflix and spotify is that I pay for two things and pretty much all the TV, films and music I want to consume are available.
If I suddenly have to pay for HBO, Disney, Sony, Fox as separate entities it becomes a lot less appealing.
Fair enough if they want to make content exclusively available a fortnight early on the HBO channel, hardcore fans will pay to get that early access to GOT or whatever. But taking it off netflix etc completely is a total dick move IMHO.
I think we're just in a transition period between old delivery methods and new ones and I think more access is better than less. I understand where you're coming from but tbh there aren't that many big media corporations out there when you see through the company names. I don't think we'll see content fractured into millions of platforms, or if we do we'll probably see our tv's become search engines navigating between content suppliers but it'll all look the same from our interface.
Game of Thrones is always my go-to example because I was happy to buy it from itunes until I caught up to the broadcasts. if I wanted to see the latest episodes I had the choice of either buying sky, or pirating. If the latest episodes were on itunes I would by them on itunes. If it was on Netflix I would watch it on Netflix, if I could get it via HBO online I would pay for that - basically if there's something I really want to see ASAP I'll happily pay for it rather than wait for some dodgy quality upload.
Another interesting development I read about is that the EU are meant to be changing the rules so that digital content purchased in any member state should be downloadable across the whole EU, bringing it in line with the rules on physical goods.
Already been announced that Britain wont stay in the "Digital Single Market" after we part company with the EU. The DSM covers a lot of things but this is one of them.