Comments on: Netflix is about to discover that Britain bites back

By: Hayley Victoria Morris

Hayley Victoria Morris — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:38:44 +0000

You will never catch me buying cable or sky for their television. Internet maybe but not tele. I would much rather pay 50 quid a year to vpn it or use droid tv or playmo or any other number of ways to watch new tv series than pay for sky. It’s illuminating to see why netflix uk has so little content in comparison. I mean what is the problem with the anime and japanese films/ dramas and korean films/ dramas. Why are they not trying harder to get them to the uk, there are lots of people who want access to them and willing to give their money.

By: occono

occono — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:49:09 +0000

Exactly. I wonder if they’ll split the catalogue, I imagine we could get more stuff if it wasn’t dependent on what licenses aren’t available to the UK.

By: sebastian

sebastian — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:34:42 +0000

netflix uki think tabloids are giving uk netflix a hard time, like this article, and so many other articles, sating about fierce competiton netflix has in the uk. WHAT COMPETITION! Sky is only for sky subscribers, and the amount of repeats that they show, i never need to watch thier streaming content anyway, there is no need. plus to get sky movies and hd it costs me around £40 a month. i have tried lovefilm streaming and dvd rental, and while thier rental is good, cheaper than paying £3.50 everytime to watch a new release, thier streaming service is horrible. they still want to charge you £3.50 for anything new. the streaming on some free movies would be just ok, and other movies it would be totally crap. like youtube back in 2003. thier selection is lame, they would add new streaming content while taking away older content, so they never really have a huge library. did i mention the pixelated quality and freezez you get. plus thier service is only availabe on a few wifi enabled devices. iphone app.(what about android app)not on wifi tv’s dvds? i tried netflix yesterday on my ps3 and android phone. and the whole experience is like from another planet. the content on day one! looks alot larger (once you log in) than on lovefilm which has been running for quite a while now, the quality is brilliant much better than lovefilm, and navigating through menus is so much better integrated, no more waiting for different pages to load. love film can take thier £1 saving and stick it up thier …! netflix is exactly what the uk needed, too many companies in the uk are sitting on thier asses and being lazy with us consumers because they have no real competition, while taking our hard earned money, hopefully lovefilm will get thier act together now and start offering a proper streaming service. for me its too little too late. goodbye sky goodbye lovefilm

By: Andrew Livingston

Andrew Livingston — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:44:02 +0000

I’m afraid this is incorrect. The archive episodes that BBC Worldwide license to Netflix, LoveFilm, MSN video et al would only appear on iPlayer if they have aired on the BBC’s public service television channels within the last seven days.

There is some archive content on iPlayer, but it so far it’s different programming to that being made available commercially (such as our year long archive of some current affairs strand, or the BBC 4 Permanent Collections).

We’re beginning to add functionality to iPlayer to tell you which third party sites exist where you can watch those programmes if they’re not available on the iPlayer site itself, but that’s not the same thing.

By: Jon Campbell

Jon Campbell — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:25:56 +0000

Won’t there come a point fairly soon where Sky’s contracts with US broadcasters / content owners are going to be seen as anti-competitive in the digital age?

By: Aivaras Zujus

Aivaras Zujus — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:28:58 +0000

Nonsense. Amount of films on Netflix is many times bigger than that of LoveFilm. Also, I tried using LoveFilm few months ago. It’s rubbish. They lost the first CD and the second one took 10 days to deliver, by which time the trial was over. They did not have those films available to stream, while Netflix does.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:30:56 +0000

I think you also forget that every Xbox, PS3, and Wii, and many other televisions and devices come preloaded with netflix capability. You may find that many many more people have the technology already to invest in netflix.

By: Daniel Brierton

Daniel Brierton — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:06:51 +0000

iPlayer streams both the latest episodes of BBC shows and the archive episodes that Netflix and LoveFilm have rights to.

By: Tatil

Tatil — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:09:35 +0000

If iPlayer is only streaming the latest episodes of BBC shows, that should prevent it from becoming a competitor no bigger than Hulu in the US. The screenshot you posted makes it seem like a website focusing on the latest episodes of shows and new programs, which is not quite like the experience when a user is browsing through libraries of movies and seasons of TV shows. The shelves of Wal-Mart and 7-Eleven may be stacked with similar items, but the stores serve a distinctly different market.

By: Tvaddic

Tvaddic — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:39:09 +0000

Lovefilm only has about 2.5 million subscribers, Netflix will have more than that by the Fall, the end of the year to play it safe.