[k__]

Mom: "We got Sky now, so many channels and we get the newest Soccer and Movies!"

GF: "Oh nice... so where can I choose the movies?"

Mom: "You select the movie channel at 20:15 and it shows it"

GF: "What? I that's in four hours! Who pays a company to wait? This sounds like Netflix in bad to me..."

Classic cable TV is basically dead.

First Netflix&co had better airing times (on demand, haha) and now they invest in better shows.

Besides Rick and Morty and Game of Thrones, every show I watched last year, was made by Netflix or Amazon.

And this seems to be a good thing. Just look at stuff like orange is the new black. These new producers are far less conservative than the old media companies.

[kriro]

Sky (in Germany) has a service called Go which streams to cell phones/tablets. They also have Anytime for the box. No need to watch at the time if you don't want to + you can always just record it and watch later.

They've been pretty aggressive in rebuilding their platform content wise. If you use a regular cable (not wireless) the online archive is actually pretty big and they have all the latest blockbusters.

They even offer a DRMed download of content which I haven't seen on any other platform (quite convenient if you commute via train through low-bandwidth areas :D).

That being said...Netflix is awesome and they have excellent developers and understand software. Their original content is amazing, very bullish on them :)

[petepete]

Sky UK has Go too, plus thousands of films available to stream, built-in catch-up TV and Sky Box Sets which has loads of programmes, from HBO, Disney, C4 and many others - all built into the Sky Box and accessible via the remote.

Truthfully, it's not as cost effective as Netflix, but hey, where else can I watch the Premier League and La Liga?

[refurb]

My comment is only tangentially related to yours, but I thought it might be helpful/entertaining.

Back in the early 90s (~25 years ago) i got my first unix account that had access to the INTERNET! I could have nicely formatated text (via html) sent to my computer running Lynx. That alone was amazing.

The my brother brought home a movie on a CD-ROM. Barely watchable video quality. The i read about the "future" and how eventually you could have a movie streamed to you when you wanted to watch it! Give me a break, that's technically impossible.

And here we are today!