Forte calo degli abbonamenti TV mentre aumenta il numero di apparecchi che utilizzano scatole poco affidabili
https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/big-decrease-in-tv-subscriptions-as-number-using-illegal-dodgy-boxes-soars/a1111384849.html
di Complex_Hunter35
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That’s actually a massive fall in customers but at the same time I’m surprised that 57% are still paying for TV.
Piracy is a failure of the service, not the product.
Yes there are many using dodgy boxes (mainly sports) but i would have thought most people are not watching live tv anymore and that is the real reason. We don’t have a TV subscription, we just use FTA and paid APPS like Netflix, Now TV etc….
I don’t watch any live tv or have any interest in RTEs crap so why should I have to pay
The premier league are launching their own streaming platform in Asia next year, to be expanded globally.
If it is priced well and done properly, it could kill off a lot of Sky subscriptions.
>Only 57pc now have pay-TV subscriptions from traditional providers, down from 70pc in 2022.
>The survey data shows the number of people subscribing to online streaming platforms such as Netflix, Disney and Amazon is almost the same, at 67pc, as three years ago.
>Illegal dodgy-box streaming services – estimated to be present in 400,000 Irish households – are being tagged by industry executives as a reason for the pay TV slump.
Hey, fuckwits, it’s the streaming.
People were paying for both VOD streaming and your shite. As people have changed how they consume television content they watch only VOD – because it is clearly superior to pick what you went when you want it – and abandon your bad and outdated product offering.
If sky was reasonably priced I wouldn’t mind paying for it.
But, they signed a nearly €2billion euro a year deal to show the premier league, that with all the other crap they pay through the roof for, is what what makes all this crap so expensive.
In Sky’s case, they make it difficult to cancel and the reward for customer loyalty is yet another price increase so to the high seas I go and now they get nothing.
Piracy is going reach the same levels again, if you need to have multiple accounts to be able to watch a few things people are going to take the easiest option.
Sky is the issue here. I am a big F1 fan. To watch it I have to pay for 7 sports channels when only want 1. Won’t let me subscribe to that channel only. I currently pay it but getting fed up.
We have Vodafone, purely because it was bundled with our broadband, and the wife insisted on having it “because the news”. I’d say you could count the amount of times we’ve actually watched it on the fingers of one hand in the last year.
I rarely watch tv anymore. Have subs for Netflix, Prime, and Apple TV. Rarely use them also.
I can either a) pay a fortune for 3 different apps that *might* have what I want, will have an interface from 1992, runs like molasses and has ads all over everything – or b) I could get a dodgy stick for less than any given one of them, and just watch what I want. Instantly. Like it’s genuinely a much better experience than the real thing.
I recognise legit providers actually make the stuff I watch, but on an individual level it would be very hard to rationalise option a).
Are the executives really this dumb? As everyone is becoming even more marginalised due to the cost of living, of course many are going to use dodgy boxes or sail the high seas. Its the result of greed.
Ironic thst the streamers had mostly won, taking over from the days of mass piracy. But now there are soooo many streaming apps and they all have extortionate pricing these days.
What used to be a reasonable monthly sub has now gotten right out of hand. To hell with their greed
I watch YouTube on the Xbox and had Disney for Star Wars at one stage that’s it.
I don’t watch tv anymore, to expensive and most things end up on tube
No one should lament the demise of virgin media and sky as gatekeepers of the channels when it happens. The main channels that people spend most time on are free to watch if people looked to Freesat and other FTA tech.
The premium stuff is discretionary
YouTube exists as free or subscription
Sport is their last redoubt and it’s clear the outrageous charges have created an illegal alternative which can’t be stopped.
The Premier League etc are aware of the clock ticking now and won’t commit to Sky on the this scale again.
Invested last year in a full home server, running free jellyfin software.
Cut the cable, as well as netflix and all the other subscription services.
Have over 1000 movies, all our tv shows, and all of our music accessible from outside the house too.
Used an old PC laying around and only had to buy hard drives. Pays for itself in a year, if you’ve got the traditional tv and subscriptions.
I have no problem paying for streaming services… or at least I didn’t. I’ve been a Netflix customer since they sent CDs in the post.
But then X is sold to Y and this show and that show are no longer on the platform and you have to subscribe to another service for one thing or another.
And it balloons from paying 20 a month for one service to 80 a month for three or whatever. They are screwing themselves, so I can’t blame people for finding alternatives.
I had subs for Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, Apple, Now
I have kept Now for Premier League, i went to cancel and keep getting offered €13.5 monthlty deal for 6 more months, i had got rid of all others, i resubscribed to Netflix so sons could watch Stranger Things but have cancelled again,
I was reading the definition of the law in teh article. Theoretically any device could be considered to be aiding the high seas but its just not practical. Gardai have better things to do with their time than pursue people streaming football or movies. Now take into account that this seems like another class bashing article from the Indo who have had a plethora of these dodgy box articles this year. All of the steaming companies as mentioned have hiked prices to a price where most people might pay for one but will stream off other sites. Why would I pay €25 for Netflix to browse programming that I have seen, is poor quality or is produced en masse like their true crime nonsense, none of which I watch. I am a sci fi and fantasy fan, the options on streaming services are not great at all….
Sky and some other authorities in this area concentrate a lot on dodgy boxes when the fact of the matter is their service isn’t selling anymore. I think people are moving to streaming platforms more than anything else. Dodgy boxes are having an effect, but it is nowhere near as bad as they say I think.
Arrest these criminals!
Off to watch the Champions League, WWE and NBA now
It’s almost as if the subscriptions are extortionately overpriced…..
When they start charging reasonable prices for a good product people will pay for it.
We came so close to equilibrium with the streamers, except for a few mates watching premiership football on Reddit streams everybody was paying for what they watched, before the big media companies essentially reinvented cable TV.
Most of that media is run by companies who support fascism, so I’m totally fine with it. I cut the cable awhile back anyways.
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I’m not paying for tnt to listen to Ally McCoist and “Fletch” spread verbal diarrhea to the world.
We cancelled the other day after they added another €5 on to the bill.
Sky: €70 per month
Dodgy: £60 per year, for every channel you could possibly want, along with VOD box sets and series.
Sky ” we are upping the the montly price of your contract, click here to find out why”
*click*
“Reason we are upping the price because we provide such an excelent service”
Ya ye are just a glorified re seller and the only service i requested of ye to fix your shit ye were absolutly useless and im still waiting on an update on the router issue from last year.
Ya. I have to say the days of the high sees allowed to see all. I wanted to see landman. Iv 3 subs and another one is needed. That 1 to many.
Where’s the best place to go these days regarding the high sees. Any were to see a list of ports and locations. Iv jot been to see for id say 15 years. But I’m thinking…
Majority of people stopped using Limewire when Spotify allowed it to be cheap and accessible 🤷
Aboydakid
It’s kind of wild how 15-20 years ago piracy was common place due to the costs of cable TV or buying music. Then we found solutions in streaming services. Then those streaming services decided to become glorified cable and we’re back at square one. So stupid.
oh poor sky, they cant charge people extortionate fees and flood their adverts with gambling adverts and expect people to keep paying.
Also football as entertainment is shite these days compared to a couple of decades ago.
Sky have the worst customer service I have ever experienced in any industry. I cancelled my DD and they ‘forced’ payment through for 2 months. In order to close our account I had to tell them my wife had died (the account was in her name). Appalling company owned by an evil man.
Free market, they love that don’t they? Supply and demad?