Britbox Is a RIPOFF! I'm Not Paying for Another Streaming Service! Fuck You!

Why can't Netflix get their shit together and at least are,put to hold on to some real content like the classics they used to have?

*and at least hold onto

And why can't I rent or buy White Mischief digitally anywhere in the United States?

It's streaming on Amazon UK, so I know it exists. All the other content I mentioned is available to rent or buy streaming on Amazon UK.

I fucking hate the BBC when it comes to their bullshit in the American market. They just have no clue how to run a business. And their new shows are shit - so now they hold their back catalogue for ransom??

Do we have a picture of the OP? Why yes, here it is:

W&W, r4.

I haven't torrented anything in probably 15 years or more, because I believe in paying for content. But if all these shitty apps like Britbox keep yanking content off the big streaming sites and making it impossible to even buy digitally without subscribing in perpetuity, well....then they're just asking for it.

Make shit easy to buy legally, assholes. This is the digital age. No one wants to have to subscribe to 10 different streaming services or look across 50 different apps that may or may not be around in a year to buy a goddamn show. I know Amazon and ITunes will be around, so just make whatever deals you have to to *sell* your content to the comsumer through one of the big sites.

Yes - sell it. Why should I have to go to the store to buy a fucking DVD and rip it myself in this day and age?? I'll just fucking torrent it, you fucks, if you don't make it available for years while you're playing games with your catalogue.

The media companies are fucking up again with this subscription trend nonsense. Didn't they learn anything from the success of ITunes?

My review of Britbox- the straw that broke the camel's back.

Totally overpriced.

The BBC is run by the biggest idiots in entertainment.

CBS also wants $5.99/mo for their app. And you still have to sit through commercials. Get fucked!

Preach, r9.

These companies are out of their damn minds.

Won't pay a cent for any of these products. Rip-offs.

Fuck this asshole subscriber bullshit.

It's such a crock.

R11 is right on, sadly.

The solution to all streaming problems:

Life is so much better when you stop watching TV

I get BBC Canada as part of my cable package here in Toronto. It's horrible. Car shows, real estate shows -looking to buy a vacation home overseas,- first time home buyers. Very little comedy-just 'chat shows' and no period drama's that I've been able to find. I get far more Brit content from the Buffalo PBS affiliate, TV Ontario and the Canadian independent channel, 'Vision'.

I already have most of those great dvds. People said I was crazy for not tossing them and just streaming everything. LOL! Yikes I even have some old shows on tape. Thankfully I never threw out a still perfectly good old TV with in-set both dvd and vhs capability. I am not replacing all those old foreign films I have. Yea, the quality isn't as good but who cares. If you are looking for old shows check out used book stores.

Move to DC where our PBS station has a channel devoted to British shows 24/7. It's FREE.

But yea all the studios want to cut out Netflix and make ALL the money so more and more will be taking their content off Netflix. Not Netflix's fault.

This is why I will always support physical media whether it's film, tape or disc.

I think the BBC is still locked in a 70's marketing mentality where they sell packages to "regions". There are plenty of people who would pay directly for the content but they don't make it available. My favorite shows are the old Bargain Hunt with Tim as host, and Antiques Road Trip (NOT Celebrity Antiques Road Trip) and they are totally unavailable in any form unless you live in Britain.

I think streaming services in general are not very good or convenient. There are too many boutique streaming pay services these days. Many of them do not offer loads of content but they are needed to watch our favourite content. It's only going to get worse in the future. I recently started the Britbox free trial on Amazon just so I can see Lesley Manville in "MUM".

Shit. I better double-down on Sherlock on Netflix before it poofs.

So now every movie will be available for a limited time just like Disney's most popular animated films.

What's the difference between Britbox and Acorn?

[quote]Why can't Netflix get their shit together and at least are,put to hold on to some real content like the classics they used to have?

Try finding out how television contracts work, dollface.

r14 is on his way to the slammer.

R17 was smart to keep his physical media.

However, It's insanity that "checking out used bookstores" for elusive DVDs to shows that we know have already been digitized is something we have to even consider in 2017, just because of the petty and backward bullshit of these companies.

I mean fuck! Take my money, I'm trying to give it to you assholes to buy your content! But I will be *damned* if I'm going to give one red cent for another subscription service, just because the fucking BBC can't manage their business on the enormous amount of money they're given, and who also refuse to get out of their fucking provincial distribution mindset.

Nickel and dimeing everyone to death. Well fuck them, this app is DOA in the overcrowded American streaming market. They're delusional. I don't watch GOT, but these fuckers act like they think they're HBO and literally believe "millions" will subscribe and that they will be "the British Netflix".

Ha ha ha HA! All the stories I've heard about the absolutely clueless management at BBC are obviously true, because most of their modern shows are shit, they make headscratchingly bad business decisions year after year, are always starting some wildly expensive project that inevitably fails, and also seem to want to almost disavow their quality older content (for not being PC enough) - that people actually want to see - while simultaneously trying to monetize it in the most ass backward, futile ways possible.

The business sense of BBC management is staggering. Yet they spend money like water on so much bullshit and overhead and failed "initiatives".

Now that the studios have figured out the internet and have more control they will keep cutting back availability until you end up having to pay per view everything (at least that is what they would love to happen). I have a feeling that they will eventually stop releasing dvd's and blu rays so that you can't physically own a movie anymore, you will only be able to see it if you rent it directly from the studio.

I LOL whenever I see the option to "own" something digitally. Bitch, please!

I still buy DVDs. I have all the Poirots, all the Joan Hickson Miss Marple, Foyle's War, Pie in the Sky, both sets of Lord Peter Wimsey, along with other favorite British mysteries.

I have watched them many times. Along with my classic DVDs - Hitchcock, lots of film noir, classic westerns, etc.

I also own a DVD recorder (with tuner) which I purchased back with I was transferring my VHS recordings from TV onto DVD. Therefore, I can still save a DVD copy of a shows or movies that I see. These recorders, particularly those with tuners have all but disappeared and used ones are going for a premium.

Why? Because, I think, the studios do not want people to own a copy, even a less than perfect one that was self recorded. Ideally, they want people to pay them every time someone watches one of those old films.

I frankly do not want to pay for any services. I watch newer films on DVD or Blu-Ray from my public library. With few exceptions, I only buy DVDs of things I know I will watch more than once.

Lately I have been trying to fill in my collection of classic films since I think eventually they will become harder and harder to find.

A few year back, Bette Davis' "The Little Foxes" DVD skyrocketed in price for the few remaining. Fortunately, it reappeared at a more reasonable price and I grabbed a copy.

And other films are still being released through studio websites in the DVD -R format with bare minimum extras, usually consisting of the film's trailer.

Glad to read on the thread that the streaming services are not a good value.

I luckily bought all the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes digital episodes off Amazon a few years ago, so even though asshole BBC has ripped them off the site for all but their 3 Britbox subscribers (no, you can't even purchase them now), I can still watch them.

However, I largely agree with r29.

Fuck the BBC!

Agree with r27 as well.

I mean, I technically own all the Brideshead episodes on DVD as I purchased the box set a few years ago.

But they're buried in a box in my storage unit that will be really hard to access until I move in a year or two, so I was happy to pay *again* to purchase the digital episodes for convenience and easy access (since I didn't have the discs at hand for disc-to-digital conversion).

But now I can't buy the rest of the series' episodes, because they've been taken off the site except for fucking Britbox subscribers. They can go fuck themselves since I've given them money for this series twice already.

I read an interview with the cunty Indian management bitch that runs this shitshow of an app - she's fucking delusional. Literally pull not articulate the market, the distribution, content (incomplete seasons, randomly missing episodes, a lot of fluff filler content), or growth strategies, the ridiculous price point, the target audience beyond "hopefully British expats in America and...some others?", couldn't answer questions about the apparently antiquated tech used by the app (crashing, slow, no auto-play while watching more than one episode)... AND YET claimed she expected "millions" of subscribers and said Britbox would soon be "the British Netflix".

No fucking way. Just unreal.

*literally could not articulate

I love Britbox. Thank God we finally have something like it. It has my stories (Eastenders/Emmerdale/Coronation Street) and a lot of other good stuff. It never crashes on my iPad but doesn't play well on my Apple TV when I do the AirPlay mirroring with it, though.

BritBox is great. I'll gladly pay for the content.

Fuck that, shill cunts.

Looks like some marketing interns are getting caught up on their Google Alerts.

"If time is your enemy, make friends with Easy-On, that's all I can tell you."

Mary, please.

Fuck you R36/37, I have nothing to do with Britbox marketing. It's a service which has been way overdue. BBC America was disastrous from the beginning. I'm really happy that we now have Britbox in addition to Acorn and Walter Presents for streaming of TV from places other than the US.

[quote] Make shit easy to buy legally, assholes. This is the digital age. No one wants to have to subscribe to 10 different streaming services or look across 50 different apps that

Ah but that's the American Away. Let's say you want to buy a bag of Lindt truffles. You want all of the flavors in one mixed bag. Ain't gonna happen. Each bag has one flavor. They want you to buy 5 bags in order to get 5 flavors.

You really can't buy variety all in one place anymore.

Hey, don't bring us into this.

I promise you this shitty cash-grab app will fail, and fail hard.

The BBC and ITV can both get fucked.

Well, those greedy fucks have wrenched seasons 7 through thirteen of Poirot away from Netflix.

I won’t give them one red cent, and am now watching the show for free elsewhere...

I've had Britbox for a few months and have been happy with it, and I just ordered an Amazon Fire Stick for $25 since it was on sale for Thanksgiving, but I'm pissed because my Britbox subscription doesn't work with it and I have to reorder it via Amazon and apparently a bunch of shows are missing. WTF?! I'm returning the fire stick and just getting a Roku instead. The whole thing doesn't make any sense, as the Britbox subscription from Britbox, and the one from Amazon are the exact same price, so why on earth is Amazon not offering a bunch of shows that should be on there?

Get Hola extension. Sign up for BBC iPlayer. Cast tab to tv. Free Brit tv!

I did a free trial of BritBox through Amazon and random shows would just suddenly not be available anymore, like several season one Poirot would be unavailable hours after I'd watched them. Then I was charged for a month two days before my trial period ended. Ridiculous. Won't be trying anything else on Prime video, not after that experience.

The trouble with Britbox, and BBC America for that matter, is that they still sell their best shows to other networks that are willing to pay top dollar, so their own services are filled with the dreck that they either can't sell or can't sell for very much.

There’s a video/DVD store near my apartment (Upper East Side). Like a mom & pop Blockbuster. Has many classic/obscure/art/foreign movies. Originally went in there for the giant gumball machine for my kid, but the selection of his films is so appealing.

I used to wonder how that guy stays in business and pays rent in a prime retail spot.

This thread explains why.

That’s interesting, r45.

So Britbox is ripping off those who subscribe through Amazon?

I’m not surprised. The app is such a poorly thought out cash grab.

[quote]Well, those greedy fucks have wrenched seasons 7 through thirteen of Poirot away from Netflix

Huh. I didn't know that. I'm glad I downloaded those to my media server while Netflix still had them. Even the discs aren't all that available on the Netflix DVD service, with only seasons 11, 12, and 13 available there.

That’s because of Britbox’s contract restrictions for Amazon, Google Play, etc., r51.

The BBC doesn’t want you to even be able to purchase Poirot digitally. They want to force you to subscribe to their tiny little niche service for $6.99.

Forget it.

I like Britbox and feel 6.99$ a month is worth it. I can watch Coronation Street the evening of broadcast, as well as other shows I haven't seen but have heard of. And or course, there is The Queen's Christmas Message.