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The Official TV Thread

Nik the Trik said:
L K said:
I doubt their price stays the same but at 6 (probably 10 Canadian) it?s hard to complain too much about Disney given that they own like 2/3 of all media
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Sure, but I haven't seen anything that says that they're going to offer the entirety of what Fox has on their streaming service. I think all they've announced is that it'll be the place for Marvel/Pixar/Star Wars/Disney movies and whatever original stuff they create under that umbrella. 

If it eventually includes things like The Simpsons and and everything through FX and so on then, yeah, that'll be a crazy content library.
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It's interesting how fractured the streaming ecosystem is becoming.
 
Deebo said:
The entire run of The Simpsons will be available from day one on Disney+

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/the-simpsons-streaming-disney-plus-1203187595/
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As anyone with Netflix knows, what's on a streaming service will vary pretty solidly from country to country. Being as we haven't even gotten a date for when Disney Plus will be available in Canada we don't know whether or not it'll share the US library.
 
Isn't the difference there that Netflix licenses other producer's content (aside from their own) whereas Disney/Fox owns the content? Aside from previously licensed material (such as the Marvel shows on Netflix), Disney, I would imagine, should have pretty similar content across their regions.
 
As more and more streaming sources come on board, the mainstays will become less and less appealing IMO. Eventually, all each source will offer is 1980's sitcoms and their own shows. I would think that something like Marvel's selection will become less and less on Netflix if Disney puts out their own media streaming service.

Wouldn't someone like Disney be better suited to allow all the streaming services to offer their catalogue and just take a portion of the business? Or would a series/movie be purchased for a set amount of time by Netflix or Prime and have to be renegotiated every few years?
 
Bullfrog said:
Isn't the difference there that Netflix licenses other producer's content (aside from their own) whereas Disney/Fox owns the content? Aside from previously licensed material (such as the Marvel shows on Netflix), Disney, I would imagine, should have pretty similar content across their regions.
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I imagine it would depend on what other deals were made by Fox re: syndication and streaming rights in other countries before the merger.
 
I have Netflix - already getting past saturation. So many things on it I've started and never finished.

I also have Prime. Only watch two shows on it but I actually use the next day delivery often enough and the access to free books on kindle also helps.

Then I've my cable which has a whole pile of on demand content as part of it and is where I watch my movies mostly.

Finally I have 3 different sport channel subscriptions -

Sky Sports for Premier league football, golf, formula 1 and some cricket.

BT Sport for champions league football, some more Premier League football, some other cricket and European Cup rugby. And finally

Premier Sports for domestic rugby, NHL and British Elite League hockey (also KHL and Swedish league)

The split of those sports packages is the real killer for me. Bring back the monopoly when Sky owned all of the above sports, movies and TV shows. It was cheaper than the current "competition"
 
It's sort of ironic - I cut the cable because all of the "specialty channel" package add-ons, and happily paid for netflix (+OTA/grey market streaming for sports)

The way the landscape is shaping up now, those "specialty" offerings are back, in the form of competing streaming services.

I doubt I'll pay for more than one, so it'll really come down to who offers the consistently best original content.
 
Watching hockey is the only part I haven't figured out yet. The individual streaming subscriptions from Sportsnet or TSN are so expensive, I might as well keep full cable and have access to all the channels.
 
Bullfrog said:
Watching hockey is the only part I haven't figured out yet. The individual streaming subscriptions from Sportsnet or TSN are so expensive, I might as well keep full cable and have access to all the channels.
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Gamecentre plus some kind of VPN/unblocker is the only viable solution for hockey right now.
 
Bullfrog said:
Watching hockey is the only part I haven't figured out yet. The individual streaming subscriptions from Sportsnet or TSN are so expensive, I might as well keep full cable and have access to all the channels.
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There are other (ahem) NHL options (non reddit) that I've been pleased with this season. Not sure of board policy on that, so you're welcome to PM if you'd like the site.
 
The current Jeopardy champion is on quite a run.

He has broken the previous single day record of 77k 3 times in 9 wins, every time by a considerable margin (110k, 89k, 106k). He has won over 566k so far in 9 days.
 
Deebo said:
The current Jeopardy champion is on quite a run.

He has broken the previous single day record of 77k 3 times in 9 wins, every time by a considerable margin (110k, 89k, 106k). He has won over 566k so far in 9 days.
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He could have more too but he likes to fart around with his wagers to land on significant numbers (like Final Jeopardy to get his daughter?s birthdate).
 
herman said:
Deebo said:
The current Jeopardy champion is on quite a run.

He has broken the previous single day record of 77k 3 times in 9 wins, every time by a considerable margin (110k, 89k, 106k). He has won over 566k so far in 9 days.
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He could have more too but he likes to fart around with his wagers to land on significant numbers (like Final Jeopardy to get his daughter?s birthdate).
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herman said:
He could have more too but he likes to fart around with his wagers to land on significant numbers (like Final Jeopardy to get his daughter?s birthdate).
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Are you happy now, herman??

Going into Final with a 65,714 lead, he bet 60,013 in final to break his own record by 20k

He now owns the top 4 single game scores ever.

I've been watching my whole life and have never seen anything like this, he's close to double Ken Jennings total through 10 games.

I feel for his competion, these people are probably fulfilling a life time dream to appear on the show and are steamrolled by this guy. He had 71,114 going into final today vs. 5,000 and 5,400.

I mean, there's probably only person who knows more than him in the whole world... Nik the Trik!
 
Ran out of birthdates to play with, eh?

The secret, other than being fast and good at math, is reading a lot of children?s info books.
 
Ya he is damn good but its his wagering that is insane, doubling down on the early DD he hits.  Leads to huge leads before Double Jeopardy, then its basically a cakewalk for him. Then he can decide what huge number to play in final, no one can catch him.

For those of you my age, do you remember the first time you saw Alex Trebeck?  He did a Jeopardy style show back in the 60's early 70's call Reach for the Top and Alex hosted the Toronto version for years.  Basically two high school teams of 4 contestants each, playing very Jeopardy like questions.

My prayers go out to Alex in his healing. He has been part of my life forever.
 
Highlander said:
Ya he is damn good but its his wagering that is insane, doubling down on the early DD he hits.  Leads to huge leads before Double Jeopardy, then its basically a cakewalk for him. Then he can decide what huge number to play in final, no one can catch him.
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He also pretty much never gets an answer wrong, he's first to buzz in ~40 times a game (out of 60 questions) and gets around 2 answers wrong. Even without the daily double bets, he's completely dominating.
 
I was on my high school Reach for the Top team

It's almost like it's a good idea to generate a lot of opportunities so that even when you make a mistake it doesn't knock you out.
 
Great googly moogly, they're turning The Boys into a TV Show:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/boys-review-1205773

I appreciate that anything even remotely connected to Superheroes is probably a hot property in Hollywood these days but I can't imagine that they'll be able to put in half of the stuff that the book did. I like to think that I've got a pretty big tolerance for these sorts of things but The Boys, quite frankly, was pretty grotesque.
 
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