[AusNOG] Here we go - Presto is now live.

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

I think people need to take off their rose coloured glasses when it comes to Netflix. They're bound by the same sorts of geographical content licensing deals that everybody else is, and (although I haven't looked into why), content even disappears from Netflix quite regularly apparently, and they aren't necessarily obscure movies either:

"These 65 movies and TV shows are disappearing from Netflix on New Year's Day"
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/26/7450753/netflix-titles-disappearing-january-1st-65-movies-tv-shows


"The 25 Best Movies Disappearing From Netflix Tonight"
http://gizmodo.com/the-25-best-movies-disappearing-from-netflix-on-new-yea-1671359657

I occasionally can't find movies I'd like to watch on Google Play (which I use with my Chromecast) or that don't have a rental option (and I'd argue they are just as neutral as Netflix). All the local TV channels have content available for rent on Google Play, so in many cases these new services that are owned/partnered with local TV channels aren't really making much new content available:

https://play.google.com/store/movies/collection/promotion_collections_tv_networks

(I'm sure some might be tempted to 'cut off their nose to spite their face' by taking their content off of "competing" VoD services, reducing their potential paying customer base. Boneheadedness lasts only so long before they'll start wondering where the missing money went.)
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From: Nick Stallman <nick at agentpoint.com>
To: Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com>; Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com> 
Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> 
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Here we go - Presto is now live.



This is the major issue, and which is why Netflix will be so important to watch since they are the most neutral service.
It could just be that they get zero content from channel 7 and 9
    though.

I noticed FetchTV was losing the Discovery set of channels as of Feb
    1.
Presto doesn't seem to have any Discovery content either.
Does anyone know what is going on there? Did one of these new
    players get exclusivity?




On 16/01/15 11:53, Robert Hudson wrote:

I have to say, this doesn't excite me considerably. 
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>The reason - the programming (or lack thereof) - I found there were more things that I'd want to watch that aren't on this service than things that are on this service.  Maybe they'll add more stuff (and broaden what's available) over time - but I don't see that each channel selling online access to their own content on their own paid service being particularly valuable.  I'd much rather pay for a service that takes contents from multiple channels/networks and makes it all available to me in one place.
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>It's widely acknowledged by everyone BUT the content owners that the reason that people pirate their content is that they make it so damned difficult to access that it's easier to pirate it than jump through the hoops of acquiring it legally.  In my mind, at this stage, this service doesn't fix that unless all you're interested in is content that Fox/Channel 7 have rights to.
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>On 15 January 2015 at 23:34, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com> wrote:
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>Hi all, 
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>>So, here we go... the first of the three are now online.
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>>Foxtel & Channel 7's Presto has launched - https://www.presto.com.au/
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>>News Release: http://www.news.com.au/technology/home-entertainment/presto-entertainment-launches-for-1499-a-month/story-fn8tnfhb-1227185706539
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>>TV only - $9.99
>>Movies only - $9.99
>>Both - $14.99
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>>I've just signed up to give it a test.  I love one question on the signup "I don't want my information passed to our Foxtel Partners (Telstra and News Ltd)." - Love it - TICK!
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One note at the bottom of the news article was interesting: "The joint venture between Foxtel and Channel 7 is still awaiting regulatory approval via the ACCC."  Waiting approval but launched? 
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