Subscribe to all the major streaming services with sport and you could be paying close to £200 per month, add to that the cost of a licence and TV consumption becomes very expensive.
With the cost of living crisis upon us, we have been out across the Uk to gather people’s opinions.
With the cost of living crisis upon us, we have been out across the Uk to gather people’s opinions.
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00:00 Right, well, we just pay one fee really to Skype, can you say that?
00:07 And that includes Netflix and YouTube and things like that,
00:14 which I tend to watch more than television, to be honest.
00:18 I watch the news on television, but not the other things I tend to watch on YouTube or Netflix.
00:27 And I do watch crime movies as well.
00:33 I think families may do, but there's only the wife and I left at home,
00:38 now there's enough telly for us to watch.
00:40 And I watch more on YouTube now than I did.
00:43 Just between me and my husband, we just have Netflix.
00:47 I think we used to have Amazon Prime, but it's expensive,
00:51 so we just kind of cut down to one, so it's him who pays for it.
00:54 Do you think it is getting quite expensive to have all of these platforms that you need to have to watch things?
01:00 Yeah, I think so, and I think it creeps up on you because you kind of get attracted to the advertisement or something,
01:06 and you're like, "Oh yeah, I could watch that."
01:08 And before you know it, you've got three or four subscriptions going out,
01:11 and if they're like £10, £11, £12 a month, that's a lot of money, isn't it,
01:16 when you could be spending that on food.
01:18 I don't pay for any subscription services in that way,
01:23 but yeah, I think we, as is kind of being communicated internationally with, say, the Right Strike of America,
01:32 it's kind of selfish behaviour from corporations in trying to sustain a rate of monetisation
01:38 that they were expecting pre-pandemic and even during the pandemic.
01:43 Just get loads of repeats, so that's not fair.
01:46 You're paying all that money every month.
01:48 No, so I don't think it's very fair, because they're taking the money but not giving us what we want.
01:54 I think now the world is full of technology, and because of that, if I say no, it's most impossible.
02:04 Don't be a little bit addict to that.
02:08 They do add up. I've got quite a few.
02:11 But you can kind of spread the weight because people share them, so that's not too bad.
02:15 I mean, I wouldn't want to pay any more, but the amount of stuff you get is probably grand, I guess.
02:20 I don't have anything other than TV licensing, subscription, so I can't really shop without the other ones.
02:26 And as far as I'm concerned, you know, it's good value for money.
02:31 I don't deal with that. I don't have any extras, if you like, just what I need.
02:42 I've got a cop back there.
02:45 Should you? Do you think you'll need to?
02:47 Yeah, thanks for that. It goes out of cost.
02:51 I'm sick to the body of chefing programmes, food programmes, a place in the sun.
03:00 Oh, give us a break.
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