Sky cinema. possible changes

[Anonymous]

Looks like sky are considering making some changes to sky cinema. Possibilities include, sky cinema including a free sky store film weekly/monthly or for a £1, and removing paramount plus.

[Daniel0210]

@Anonymous 

And your source? 

[Mister_Dalek]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Looks like sky are considering making some changes to sky cinema. Possibilities include, sky cinema including a free sky store film weekly/monthly or for a £1, and removing paramount plus.

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Removing Paramount+ is a bad idea. That's probably one of the key features that actually make Sky Cinema worth paying for. 

I wonder if it has something to do with the imminent introduction of Paramount+'s premium tier in the UK, where you can pay more to get 4K/HDR.

[Super+Anthony]

I read they are launching 310 channel as free from 1st November, unless I am mistaken 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/sky-tv-update-free-movies-33982884

[Daniel0210]

@Super+Anthony 
That's just for over the fireworks season and has been discussed on another thread

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/What-s-On/Sky-Cinema-Bonfire-Night-Ireland/td-p/4797536 

[Super+Anthony]

Thanks for clarifying

[Anonymous]

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@Super+Anthony wrote:

I read they are launching 310 channel as free from 1st November, unless I am mistaken 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/sky-tv-update-free-movies-33982884

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Sky Cinema Bonfire Night will be free from 1 November according to the article and 2 November according to Sky to approx.  9 November and will be free for Sky customers only. 
This is not a permanent change.

[TimmyBGood]

"E.T., the Bridget Jones trilogy and Shrek"

Cutting edge of 20th century film making ; )

That was a while ago though...

[Anonymous]

 

[GD1]

@Anonymous  All that is is simply a survey, it's not a definite plan, nor a guarantee it will happen.

[Mister_Dalek]

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@Anonymous wrote:

 

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I'm sure I had that same survey well over a year ago...

So don't expect anything proposed in it to actually happen any time soon. 

[Anonymous]

No as I posted 'possible' changes, I am not expecting anything 

[Anonymous]

 

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

 

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I actually think having Paramount+ free with Sky Cinema is a little silly as the majority of movies on Paramount+ are on Sky Cinema on-demand. I specifically wouldn't go to Paramount+ just to watch a movie if it's on Sky Cinema. 

The channels/providers that Paramount+ provides (in Ireland) is Paramount+ Originals, Showtime, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., and Smithsonian Channel. I assume in the UK, Channel 5 channels are provided here? 

None of these really are interesting. And some are already on already on the Sky Signature/Ultimate TV pack.
An idea could be to remove the free Paramount+ and give us all of movies on the Sky Store for free instead. 
 

[Mister_Dalek]

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@Anonymous wrote:

An idea could be to remove the free Paramount+ and give us all of movies on the Sky Store for free instead. 

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Well that's absolutely not going to happen.

Sky Store is a completely separate entity to Sky Cinema and sells & rents individual movies from various film distributors. These films are sold on other streaming platforms such as Prime Video, Rakuten, Apple TV, and others and help keep the movie industry afloat. 

Sky would have to spend an absolute fortune buying the rights to each and every movie to simply give them away to every Sky Cinema subscriber. It's categorically never going to happen.

Sky simply can't afford it, particularly when they already made a loss of £224 million last year, more than double the previous year's losses.