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| Thread ID: 139462 | 2015-05-06 08:18:00 | Light box for android app | John H (8) | PC World Chat |
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| 1400145 | 2015-05-06 08:18:00 | For those who have been waiting, Lightbox now has a generic android app at Playstore. No sign of Chromecast capability yet, so it is still a half baked service. 😠 | John H (8) | ||
| 1400146 | 2015-05-06 11:40:00 | Some sign of chromecast actually, in the e-mail that announced android and ios support it says chromecast is coming next and I doubt they'd announce it if it wasn't close. I think it's got enough device support to be competitive now but no movies is a definite downside. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1400147 | 2015-05-06 22:29:00 | ... I think it's got enough device support to be competitive now but no movies is a definite downside. Its all about content. They dont have enough content to convince me to pay after my free 1 year trial is over If Lightbox wants to survive , it has to compete against Netflix. I dont see them surviving. too little, too late. Is anyone on this forum actually paying for lightbox ? |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1400148 | 2015-05-06 23:35:00 | I've signed up for the one year free but haven't used it yet until Chromecast support arrives.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1400149 | 2015-05-07 00:04:00 | I am only eligible for the one month free trial, of which a couple of weeks have gone by. SWMBO has been watching something on her iPad, but until yesterday I couldn't watch anything on my Nexus 9 tablet, so two weeks of the trial have been wasted from my point of view. It is also pretty pointless from my point of view without Chromecast. I am also on a one month trial with Netflix, which was launched all ready to go with a generic Android app and Chromecast. We have been getting quite a bit of use out of Netflix because of its maturity as a service. We are going to cancel our Sky subscription, which has become all but useless because almost all of their programming is either repeats or war focussed (eg the History Channel seems to cover little other than wars and destruction). Thus far I can see that there is some value in Lightbox once it gets up to date with Chromecast, and more value in Netflix. If I ended up paying for both, I would still only be paying half a monthly Sky subscription, with more viewing choice. Even if we added Igloo to Lightbox and Netflix, we would be getting a service cheaper than Sky. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1400150 | 2015-05-07 01:31:00 | Its all about content. They dont have enough content to convince me to pay after my free 1 year trial is over If Lightbox wants to survive , it has to compete against Netflix. I dont see them surviving. too little, too late. Is anyone on this forum actually paying for lightbox ? Speaking of Lightbox.... have a read (www.nbr.co.nz) |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1400151 | 2015-05-07 04:44:00 | Speaking of Lightbox.... have a read (www.nbr.co.nz) Interesting - but also sloppy journalism. It says in the article that you could watch Lightbox on Samsung Smart TVs. No qualification. However, it only works with 2012 and post 2012 Samsung Smart TVs. Our Samsung Smart TV couldn't even access the Samsung app, because it was made in 2011. One of the commenters on the article indicated you could install the Samsung Android Lightbox app on other Android devices provided you used the workaround via your PC. Not true for all Android devices. I loaded the Samsung app onto my Nexus 7, and whilst it would connect, it would only play (hesitantly) the bottom part of the picture of a streaming film, until it crashed completely. I noticed the other day that Mounter was asking whether people were noticing the changes from Telecom - I think it was a survey. Personally I am not a customer of Spark so I am not qualified to pass judgement, but it looks as though Spark has still not rid itself of the old monopolistic mind set of Telecom days. If they can't get a monopoly, a duopoly with Samsung will do just fine. |
John H (8) | ||
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