The thing is that there is no Netflix in the UK. Sure there are other services, but nowhere as near dominating and format-war-influencing as Netflix in North America.
Actually, the platform does bring movie channels with it: Film4, Movies4Men (not that kind of movies), True Movies and True Movies 2
Movies4Men and True Movies are absolute garbage. Their output is almost exclusively made for TV trash, with the odd badly dubbed foreign movie tossed in.
FilmFour is okay but it shows far too many repeats.
I hope that when Freesat establishes itself that we might see some better quality channels go FTA on Astra. Astra has a lot of channels, but so many of them are unwatchable junk.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chad @ May 6th 2008 10:39AM
I'm moving to UK. This would be great. I'm sure you don't get any movie channels, but that is what netflix is for.
Ivan @ May 6th 2008 11:00AM
The thing is that there is no Netflix in the UK. Sure there are other services, but nowhere as near dominating and format-war-influencing as Netflix in North America.
Actually, the platform does bring movie channels with it: Film4, Movies4Men (not that kind of movies), True Movies and True Movies 2
DrXym @ May 6th 2008 12:39PM
Movies4Men and True Movies are absolute garbage. Their output is almost exclusively made for TV trash, with the odd badly dubbed foreign movie tossed in.
FilmFour is okay but it shows far too many repeats.
I hope that when Freesat establishes itself that we might see some better quality channels go FTA on Astra. Astra has a lot of channels, but so many of them are unwatchable junk.