Beyond Netflix: Which new streaming platform is most worth the money?
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Beyond Netflix: Which new streaming platform is most worth the money?
Which streaming platform should you spend your money on? CNA Lifestyle breaks down Netflix, Disney+, Apple tree Tv+, HBO Become and Hayu so you lot tin can make the right decision.
Which streaming service should you cull? (Illustration: Jasper Loh)
As the streaming wars heat upward, you lot might be scratching your head trying to figure out which service to spend your hard-earned money on. The choices are plenty – and confusing.
If you're hankering afterward local delights, in that location is always Mediacorp's Toggle, which is the i-stop streaming portal for all things Singapore, whether it's catching up on longform English soap Kin, keeping up with the electric current Aqueduct viii drama starring Zoe Tay or checking out Joanne Peh getting steamy in the Toggle Original The Concluding Madame.
Toggle is likewise where K-drama die-hards tin can admission the extensive and expanding library of tvN Movies, the world'due south first and only Korean blockbuster film channel – be they well-loved classics or contemporary dramas – with new titles added every month for only S$5.xc per month or S$4.32 per month for a vi-month parcel.
Just what of the international players that have descended on our shores?
CNA Lifestyle has broken down the different streaming sites offered in Singapore to help brand it just that wee bit easier for you to choose which 1 is the correct fit for you and your viewing habits.
WHAT: Apple TV+
WHEN: Bachelor now
PRICE: S$6.98/month
GOOD FOR: Watching a slew of Hollywood heavy-hitters at one of the everyman monthly fees.
WHAT TO EXPECT:Fans of Oprah, Steven Spielberg and sharing a streaming subscription with half-dozen others for just i low fee will most certainly rejoice. Apple Television + has arrived, advertisement-complimentary and boasting a host of exclusive programs with some very famous faces attached.
If you accept an iPhone, iPad, Apple tree TV, Mac or iPod Affect, you lot already have the Apple TV app pre-installed on your device. And if not, there is too the Apple TV app available on select Samsung smart TVs, Roku streaming devices and Amazon Fire Television set devices, and it volition come to LG and Sony platforms in the futurity. If you have none of the above, subscribers volition still be able to watch Apple TV + on the spider web at television set.apple.com.
Apple tree Television set+ might not have the catalogue size of the other players in the market, but it's got the push button ability of some Hollywood's biggest names including JJ Abrams and Jason Momoa. And yes, information technology's available both on and offline.
Customers can sign upward for a seven-twenty-four hours gratis trial that auto-renews into a monthly subscription of S$6.98 per month. And through Family Sharing, up to six family members (with their own separate Apple tree IDs) can share one Apple TV+ subscription, assuasive half dozen simultaneous streams. Customers can likewise play or mirror Apple Idiot box+ originals from the Apple TV app on their devices directly to their smart TVs.
One big bonus if you lot've purchased any Apple device after Sep 10: Y'all're eligible for a one-year complimentary subscription.
HIGHLIGHTS: Oprah's Volume Social club, The Morn Show (starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon), See (starring Jason Momoa), Dickinson (starring Hailee Steinfeld), Helpsters (a new children'south series from the makers of Sesame Street), For All Mankind, and Snoopy In Space.
WHAT: DISNEY+
WHEN: Expected to arrive in Singapore tardily 2022 or early 2020. It'll be out in November in the The states, Canada, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, and on Mar 31, 2020, in the United kingdom and Europe.
Cost: United states of america$half-dozen.99/month (Due south$ix.51) or The states$69.99/yr for the US market. Singapore pricing has non been announced at this time.
GOOD FOR: The immature and young-at-centre, and for some nostalgia binge-watching.
WHAT TO EXPECT: With Disney owning everything from Curiosity to Star Wars, too as the newly caused 20th Century Fox and Fox TV catalogue, this platform is highly predictable for its promise of being an exclusive abode for some of the well-nigh popular blockbuster franchises and television shows in Hollywood.
Content will span various catalogues, from blitheness to live-action to National Geographic documentaries. And that's not even counting the brand new Disney+ originals specially created for the service.
HIGHLIGHTS: Multiple brand new Marvel serial, Star Wars (including The Mandalorian), all the Curiosity movies, Avatar, The 10-Men animated series from the '90s, Pixar films and shorts, Disney Animation, Disney Channel series and films, National Geographic, and every season of The Simpsons.
WHAT: NETFLIX
WHEN: Available now
PRICE: South$x.98/month for standard definition and one concurrent screen, S$thirteen.98/month for high definition and two concurrent screens; S$16.98/calendar month for ultra-high definition and four concurrent screens.
GOOD FOR: Bingeing on international content.
WHAT TO EXPECT: Anybody knows that a video streaming service's success largely depends on how vast its library is and what it has offering. Which is why Netflix is still currently sitting comfortably on top of the heap.
Thanks to its massive collection of Hollywood movies and television shows (old and new), its e'er-growing archive of original programming, region-specific and land-exclusive content alongside a huge global subscriber base, Netflix is arguably notwithstanding the most pop streaming service in the world.
Not merely does the streaming pioneer take its very own cyberspace slang ("Netflix and Arctic"),information technology also birthed a generation of binge-watchers. All we can say is that it's going to take a lot to unseat this current king.
HIGHLIGHTS: Stranger Things,The Crown, RuPaul's Drag Race, Black Mirror, stand-up comedy specials,Queer Eye and Netflix original films like Martin Scorsese'due south The Irishman (starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino) and the Oscar-winning Roma by Alfonso Cuaron.
WHAT: HBO Get
WHEN: Available now
PRICE: S$xiii.98/month
Practiced FOR: Kids, Harry Potter fans and blockbuster movies.
WHAT TO Await: HBO Asia may accept kickoff launched HBO Become via Starhub Go back in 2022 but it was simply in February this yr that a standalone service without whatsoever pre-existing Tv set subscription was made bachelor.
With that fussy business out of the way, viewers can now subscribe to HBO Go directly from App Shop or Google Play. Singapore is ane of the few countries in this region where HBO Go is available without beingness tied to a cable partner. The service is also available via Mediacorp's Toggle.
Some other plus point is the streaming service'due south live TV function, which allows users to stream any of HBO Asia's suite of six TV channels (HBO, HBO Signature HBO Hits, HBO Family, Cinemax and Red By HBO) simultaneously on Cyberspace-connected devices.
HIGHLIGHTS: Original series such as Game Of Thrones, Game Of Thrones' prequel, The Handmaid's Tale, Large Niggling Lies, Succession and Euphoria.
Aslope recent Hollywood blockbusters are as well Asian hitting movies such as Farthermost Job, Ramen Teh and Europe Raiders ii; and family-friendly series including We Bare Bears, The Powerpuff Girls and Sesame Street.
Potterheads can also binge lookout all movies from the Harry Potter franchise while Tolkien fans tin can savor the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
WHAT: HAYU
WHEN: Available at present
Price: South$four.99 (no contract)
Practiced FOR: Reality show fans.
WHAT TO EXPECT: With over half-dozen,000 episodes of your favourite reality TV shows, this all-reality subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service from NBCUniversal International is attainable via multiple devices: Mobile, tablet and online via www.hayu.com/. Great for those who tin can't wait – well-nigh of the shows debut on the aforementioned twenty-four hours as their Usa launch.
Users can first with a one-month free trial earlier committing to a subscription that costs as much every bit a loving cup of chimera tea.
HIGHLIGHTS: Keeping Up With The Kardashians, The Real Housewives, Dance Moms, Million Dollar Listing and Vanderpump Rules.
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