Hi Everyone,
With the recent launch of Amazon Prime Add on subscriptions, I thought it was time to take a look at the internet provided television market to see what your options are if you are looking at ditching the conventional TV services for a more customised and democratised television and movie experience.
Amazon Prime Add on subscriptions
Amazon recently launched its new Prime Add on subscriptions, this service offers Prime members an à la carte solution for premium on-demand content. Here is a list of the available channels:
Featured
- Eurosport Player, 7-Day FREE Trial, £6.99 / Month
- Discovery Channel, 7-Day FREE Trial, £4.99 / Month
- Heera, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
Movies
- MGM, 30-Day FREE Trial, £4.49 / Month
- BFI Player+, 30-Day FREE Trial, £4.99 / Month
- Studio Universal, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
- MUBI, 30-Day FREE Trial, £5.99 / Month
- realeyz, 30-Day FREE Trial, £4.99 / Month
- Arrow Video, 30-Day FREE Trial, £4.99 / Month
- Fandor, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.49 / Month
- Filmbox, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
Entertainment
- ITV Hub+, 7-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
- hayu, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
- Nordic Noir & Beyond Channel, 30-Day FREE Trial, £4.99 / Month
Sports and Fitness
- BeFit, 14-Day FREE Trial, £5.99 / Month
- Motorvision TV, 30-Day FREE Trial, £2.99 / Month
- Gaia, 10-Day FREE Trial, £7.99 / Month
- Daily Burn, 30-Day FREE Trial, £9.99 / Month
- Acacia TV, 30-Day FREE Trial, £5.99 / Month
- Yoga Anytime, 30-Day FREE Trial, £6.99 / Month
- H&C Play, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
- Sweatflix, 30-Day FREE Trial, £9.49 / Month
Foreign language
- Viewster, 30-Day FREE Trial, £2.99 / Month
- Pongalo Next, 30-Day FREE Trial, £2.99 / Month
- Pinoy Box Office, 30-Day FREE Trial, £1.99 / Month
Learn and Discover
- Tastemade, 30-Day FREE Trial, £1.99 / Month
- The Great Courses Signature Collection, 14-Day FREE Trial, £5.49 / Month
- Love Nature, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
- Panna, 30-Day FREE Trial, £1.49 / Month
- Curiosity Stream, 30-Day FREE Trial, £5.49 / Month
- Alchemiya, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
- Planet Knowledge, 30-Day FREE Trial, £2.29 / Month
Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy
- Shudder, 30-Day FREE Trial, £4.99 / Month
- Comic-Con HQ, 14-Day FREE Trial, £4.99 / Month
- Rooster Teeth Channel, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
- Full Moon, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
Kids and Family
- Hopster, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
- Up Family, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.49 / Month
- Ketchup TV Channel, 30-Day FREE Trial, £2.29 / Month
More to Explore
- Qello Concerts, 14-Day FREE Trial, £5.99 / Month
- Nautical Channel, 30-Day FREE Trial, £3.99 / Month
TVPlayer
TVPlayer offers 60 free to air channels, including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, Dave, Yesterday, Really and Drama to name just a few. They also offer 29 Premium channels for £5.99 a month with a 30-Day free trial, the channels are:
- Cartoon Network
- Discovery
- History
- History 2
- Lifetime
- Cartoonito
- Crime Investigation
- National Geographic
- ID
- TLC
- Gold
- Animal Planet,
- Net Geo Wild
- Nick Jr
- Nick Jr Too
- Discovery Turbo
- Watch
- Eurosport 1
- Eurosport 2
- SONY
- Boomerang
- Baby TV
- Good Food
- Eden
Now TV
Now TV is a service provided by Sky Plc and still has bundles, but they have a 14-Day free trial and some really good deals on the packages and there's no contract, check out their website for the latest offers.
Now TV Entertainment package includes:
- Sky One
- FOX
- Gold
- Comedy Central
- MTV
- Sky Atlantic
- ITV Encore
- Sky Arts
- ABC Studios
- Viceland
- Discovery Channel
- Sky Living
- Nat Geo Wild
- All4
Now TV Movies package includes 1000 of the biggest blockbusters from Sky Cinema and Sky Cinema Disney.
Now TV Kids package includes 1000's episodes of quality kids TV on demand with no adverts from Boomerang, CBBC, Nicktoons, Cartoon Network, Sky Kids and Nickelodeon.
You can also add Sky Sports day, week and monthly passes.
Other options
Many TV channels have their own on-demand services including BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My 5 and UKTV Play.
These are all free and many are supported by adverts.
Netflix has many TV shows and movies for you to watch on demand including loads of original series such as House of Cards, Orange is the new black and 13 Reasons Why. They also have many box sets from the BBC, Channel 4 and much more.
Amazon Prime Video has many TV shows and movies available to watch on demand including loads of original series such as The Grand Tour, The Man in the High Castle and Amazon Exclusive such s Mr Robot and Lucifer.
Apple Music has recently launched some TV Shows including Planet of the Apps and Carpool Karaoke. I think Apple is testing the waters with this and I believe we are likely to see an Apple TV service in the future, similar to Netflix.
YouTube TV is an on-demand TV shows and movies you’ll see cable channels like ABC, NBC, FOX, ESPN and Disney among many many more. Unfortunately, it isn't available in the UK yet as it is currently a US exclusive. However, I thought it was worth mentioning as so many of us watch content on YouTube now, it could become our central place for entertainment in the future.
Lastly we have Freeview with 70 standard channels and 15 HD channels through your TV aerial, for no monthly cost. With Freeview Play, you can connect to the internet to watch on demand shows from BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, Demand 5 and UKTV Play.
I've covered the majority of services here in the UK, but there are many to choose from. I hope you have found this blog post interesting, I wanted to get across the many chooses with have for entertainment these days.
As these are internet provides television services most require you to watch via your browser, an App or a set-top box. So please check you are able to watch them before purchasing.
Let me know in the comments if you have any of these services and what you think of them.
Thanks for reading,
Carl
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