Facebook Watch

[tadka]

I keep seeing articles about Facebook Watch, they all say it rolled out in the UK today. But I just can’t find it anywhere on the FB website (PC). Any of you have it?

[The Duke]

I had to google this, never heard of it, but I don’t do fb. Interesting give it 12 months and that too will need some for me of football subscription!

 

Did you ever get it to show up for you?

[tadka]

Like yourself I hadn’t heard of them until I was looking into buying some FB shares. And I still don’t have it on my FB. I haven’t actually looked if there is anymore news regarding this. TBH I don’t really care.

[The Duke]

Lol, me neither. I logged into my account on the desktop page (omg yuk) for the first time in about 5 years, couldn’t see anything interesting. Had loads of requests and notifications, which i ignored as I closed it down.

No interest in the platform. But I just know if they launce a tv service, nob head hear will end up with jet anther football subscription.

Worst thing, for the consumer, that the monopolies commission ever did is make the Premier league open up bidding in the name for’ consumer fairness’ . Another new company called Channel 11 (iirc) just grabbed a load of rights sky and by had, luckily no English footy, but you know next year they will get some. Along with Amazon now in the game, bt and sky, all in all its never been more expensive to watch footy. Subs alone is about 40 to 50pm at least in the old days, you goudl just give sky 50£ and you was set.

Not that I lile sky one bit. But it’s a matter be careful what you wish for!

[blacklion1725]

The Duke wrote:

Lol, me neither. I logged into my account on the desktop page (omg yuk) for the first time in about 5 years, couldn’t see anything interesting. Had loads of requests and notifications, which i ignored as I closed it down. No interest in the platform. But I just know if they launce a tv service, nob head hear will end up with jet anther football subscription. Worst thing, for the consumer, that the monopolies commission ever did is make the Premier league open up bidding in the name for’ consumer fairness’ . Another new company called Channel 11 (iirc) just grabbed a load of rights sky and by had, luckily no English footy, but you know next year they will get some. Along with Amazon now in the game, bt and sky, all in all its never been more expensive to watch footy. Subs alone is about 40 to 50pm at least in the old days, you goudl just give sky 50£ and you was set. Not that I lile sky one bit. But it’s a matter be careful what you wish for!

Very true – have to laugh when they say BT/ITV/Setanta/whoever is/was competition and good for punters – it is only competiton if they all sell the same thing at different prices. Fragmenting it and making you pay multiple subs is not competition.

As you can imagine live TV football is less of a priotity atm (I was over there yesterday watching us clock up our 4th consecutive zero points) but even if it was, the broadcasting model in this country is mad. Luckily many boozers round here show the games live still (although a few have been blocked/fined), and if they blocked it all I could make do without it. Been minus sky for a year or so now, dip in and out of NowTV here and there, can honestly say I feel a bit “free” – you stay with them while the subs creep up year on year because you are used to it – but at the end of the day they don’t show that much content that you would miss when it is gone.

[tadka]

I’ve given up on it all. Still have the Amazon Prime which currently has only one show I watch (Preacher) and everything else I watch is on YouTube. About cars, stock trading, comedy, sports, ancient mysteries and so on. There is enough there for me to fill my free time.

[Tippon]

tadka wrote:

Still have the Amazon Prime which currently has only one show I watch (Preacher)

If you like Preacher, give Lucifer and American Gods a try. This is my current watchlist 🙂

 

[tadka]

Tippon wrote:

tadka wrote:

Still have the Amazon Prime which currently has only one show I watch (Preacher)

If you like Preacher, give Lucifer and American Gods a try. This is my current watchlist

I watched Lucifer twice already. I’ll have to give the American Gods another try. I tried watching the pilot but the vibe just didn’t gel with me.

[The Duke]

American gods is very good. Strange but good.

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