The Current State of Streaming

[Lee Smith]

People with fire sticks are just the same as the recent influx of air-fryer owners. Sneering down their nose at anyone who doesn't have one. It's a minefield out there.

Lol WTF, you don’t have an air fryer?! Loooooserrrrrrr!

 

[overkill]

decent list that, and very doable to collect. your top 3 are all very good 8/10's in my book, top 100 material!

others i've seen:

Sunshine 6/10
Collateral 2/10
The Terminal 3/10
Con Air 5/10
Demolition Man 6/10
Vanilla Sky 8/10
Cube 8/10
Reanimator 6/10
Falling Down 7/10
Final Destination 5/10
Night of the Living Dead 8/10
Duel 8/10
Paranormal Activity 2 - 8/10
Shaun of the Dead 7/10
Life of Brian 7/10
Tango & Cash 5/10
Silent Hill 7/10

and on your list which i own on DVD but not watched yet:

Hangover
Dead Man's Shoes
Man on the Moon
Escape from New York
Return of the Living Dead
In Bruges

Hopefully some 8's (or better!) among that.


Love a good list lol


ps - curious why you have Paranormal Activity 2 but not 1 or 3 in your list? Shame about 4 & 5 being pants, the series had some real promise.

List is very personal, so explains why there are some films which objectively are not top 50 films.
Just something about them resonated with me.

Paranormal Activity 2 I seen at the pictures and the jump scares got me more than anything in that one.
Even when I was expecting it I was caught if guard.
Left the cinema full of adrenaline lol.
The scene when all the cupboards opened at once is what got me haha

 

[DavidH]

Lol WTF, you don’t have an air fryer?! Loooooserrrrrrr!

Did I say that......

 

[Street end man]

Never had IPTV but pay sky and BT. Also like others on here depress myself looking for crappy 3pm Saturday streams.

Is there such a thing as genuinely legal IPTV that can get all those 3 I mention above please?

Mrs just won't have a dodgy box in the house and I'm not keen too.

So is it possible? Price?, where from? Kit needed?

Many thanks lads.

 

[IrishBlue2022]

Never had IPTV but pay sky and BT. Also like others on here depress myself looking for crappy 3pm Saturday streams.

Is there such a thing as genuinely legal IPTV that can get all those 3 I mention above please?

Mrs just won't have a dodgy box in the house and I'm not keen too.

So is it possible? Price?, where from? Kit needed?

Many thanks lads.

Better to get rid of the mrs, iptv is worth is.

 

[dholliday]

Paranormal Activity 2 I seen at the pictures and the jump scares got me more than anything in that one.
Even when I was expecting it I was caught if guard.
Left the cinema full of adrenaline lol.
The scene when all the cupboards opened at once is what got me haha

the first one is the only film i've seen that actually made me feel a little spooked around the flat once it finished. I enjoy a lot of horrors but the scares & thrills are superficial & temporary. Paranormal Activity had me feeling uneasy for a good hour or so after it had finished.

Check out REC 1 & 2 (for optimal immersion must-watch in original Spanish with subs)...has insane exhilarating adrenaline energy! and also Taking of Deborah Logan for that sense of unease and impending doom. Those along with the first three Paranormal Activities & Open Water are the cream of the found-footage crop. All nicely cheap on DVD.

 

[overkill]

the first one is the only film i've seen that actually made me feel a little spooked around the flat once it finished. I enjoy a lot of horrors but the scares & thrills are superficial & temporary. Paranormal Activity had me feeling uneasy for a good hour or so after it had finished.

Check out REC 1 & 2 (for optimal immersion must-watch in original Spanish with subs)...has insane exhilarating adrenaline energy! and also Taking of Deborah Logan for that sense of unease and impending doom. Those along with the first three Paranormal Activities & Open Water are the cream of the found-footage crop. All nicely cheap on DVD.

Seen Rec it's sequel and the American version Quarantine, to be honest they could slip into the list too, as it was the first time I'd tried doing a list like that there are still many films I just didn't think of as I hadn't seen them since they were released.

 

[Oasis1878]

I go halves with a mate on the 4 x user Netflix, mainly so I have access to it on my phone when travelling, and for the kids to have it in their bedrooms, but our main TV consumption is via IPTV. £50 a year for literally every channel inc PPV imaginable (plus on-demand series and movies), all in buffer free HD/4K. Trouble is it’s only on one device (Nvidia Shield) but we can move device around house if needed.

I’m amazed that not more people have moved over to IPTV in all honesty, especially the way the monthly subs of streaming services have gone up recently.

Always thought of doing this, think this post has convinced me. I’m being fleeced by Sky currently

 

[ClausThomsen]

Never had IPTV but pay sky and BT. Also like others on here depress myself looking for crappy 3pm Saturday streams.

Is there such a thing as genuinely legal IPTV that can get all those 3 I mention above please?

Mrs just won't have a dodgy box in the house and I'm not keen too.

So is it possible? Price?, where from? Kit needed?

Many thanks lads.

Not legally no. Nobody has the rights to broadcast 3pms in the UK so a legal supplier isn't possible. Same with Sky & BT broadcasts - unless an IPTV supplier negotiated to distribute their programming then it's illegal.

However, and I could be very wrong, though it's illegal to broadcast / distribute without the rights owners permission receiving said broadcast isn't illegal so long as you're not distributing/broadcasting it publicly or for any kind of commercial use - which is what all the pubs that got done were doing.

That's why people got letters from their IPS over torrenting/limewire and all that - they were simultaneously uploading and downloading so were guilty of distribution. IPTV doesn't work over a P2P network (I think) so the end user isn't doing anything legally wrong but may be in violation of the terms and conditions of their ISP.

I was putting mine through a VPN to hide it from my ISP but after a while I stopped and I haven't had so much as an email about it. Unlike when the kids were still living at home and torrenting music and films everyday. Got a threatening letter or two then.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Always thought of doing this, think this post has convinced me. I’m being fleeced by Sky currently

Bit of a minefield finding a good one and some are easier to set-up than others but it's not overly difficult. Don't pay for more than a month at first and then see how it goes. Fire off a ticket or two to their support as well and see how quick and helpful they are responding.

Usually a good indicator of the quality of service.

 

[Street end man]

Not legally no. Nobody has the rights to broadcast 3pms in the UK so a legal supplier isn't possible. Same with Sky & BT broadcasts - unless an IPTV supplier negotiated to distribute their programming then it's illegal.

However, and I could be very wrong, though it's illegal to broadcast / distribute without the rights owners permission receiving said broadcast isn't illegal so long as you're not distributing/broadcasting it publicly or for any kind of commercial use - which is what all the pubs that got done were doing.

That's why people got letters from their IPS over torrenting/limewire and all that - they were simultaneously uploading and downloading so were guilty of distribution. IPTV doesn't work over a P2P network (I think) so the end user isn't doing anything legally wrong but may be in violation of the terms and conditions of their ISP.

I was putting mine through a VPN to hide it from my ISP but after a while I stopped and I haven't had so much as an email about it. Unlike when the kids were still living at home and torrenting music and films everyday. Got a threatening letter or two then.

Good info mate. Thank you

 

[Seamus Colemole]

Not legally no. Nobody has the rights to broadcast 3pms in the UK so a legal supplier isn't possible. Same with Sky & BT broadcasts - unless an IPTV supplier negotiated to distribute their programming then it's illegal.

However, and I could be very wrong, though it's illegal to broadcast / distribute without the rights owners permission receiving said broadcast isn't illegal so long as you're not distributing/broadcasting it publicly or for any kind of commercial use - which is what all the pubs that got done were doing.

That's why people got letters from their IPS over torrenting/limewire and all that - they were simultaneously uploading and downloading so were guilty of distribution. IPTV doesn't work over a P2P network (I think) so the end user isn't doing anything legally wrong but may be in violation of the terms and conditions of their ISP.

I was putting mine through a VPN to hide it from my ISP but after a while I stopped and I haven't had so much as an email about it. Unlike when the kids were still living at home and torrenting music and films everyday. Got a threatening letter or two then.

I'm by no means a legal expert but i believe that it is also illegal to watch broadcasts that you aren't legally allowed to watch via a legal subscription.

I've always assumed that Sky/BT/Amazon have it written into their contracts with the Premier League that within the UK the only way to legally watch Premier League games is via a subscription to one of those services, therefor its illegal to do so via any kind of stream or IPTV.

Your chances of being done for watching them is probably less than 1% so yeah, stuff Sky Bt and Amazon and their rip off prices.