Netflix goes live in Blighty
'Lovefilm without the DVDs' for £6 a month
Netflix goes live in the UK today, offering Brits streaming access to its collection of online content for £6 a month.
The US company said it will also offer one-month trials for free.
At launch, Netflix is offering films and TV programmes from All3Media, the BBC, CBS, Channel 4’s 4oD, Disney, ITV, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, Momentum Pictures, NBC Universal, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox and Viacom International Media Networks.
Many of the films and programmes, it said, are available in HD and 5.1 sound.
The company said it has playback clients for Android and iOS phones; the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 games consoles; Mac and Windows computers; tellies from LG and Samsung; and set-top boxes from Apple, WD, Philips and Roku.
So does is main rival over here, the Amazon-owned Lovefilm. Lovefilm has the advantage that its stream subscription also sends you discs through the post, handy at a time when far less content is available to stream - from either service - than it is on pre-recorded media.
But mailing discs and managing inventory is costly, so Netflix wants out of that business, which is why new services, like Netflix UK, lack it. ®
COMMENTS
Wow - What a waste!
I just went to the netflix site and had a look though their available films.
I think the best way to describe the few options there is that they would be what you might expect to find left over at the bottom of the "bargain bin" at a garage, once all the good stuff had gone.
Why on Earth did they go to all the effort of setting up a website, and presumably some small amount of streaming capability, just to fill it with that crap?!
Content
Looking at what you can look at without signing up does not inspire me to give them my credit card details.
Initially was interested, looked at selection and was, quite frankly, appalled.
I see its available in Ireland as well. Unfortunately the selection is terrible! Even worse than Acetrax, which I didn't think was possible.
When these services finally get around to offering a decent catalogue, I'll bite, until then, what's the point in wasting a free trial on crap?
As has already been stated several times
The email signup link appears if you sign out of your Facebook account first.
Clearly a UI fail, but not as big a fail as those who are wailing in outrage whilst still poking their friends in another tab.
