What's annoying me today

Bloody netflix scrapping the £8 package that we're on to give us a choice between the £5 package with adverts, the £11 package without ads or binning them off for a while.

I have discovered a small but no doubt fast-growing wasps' nest in my shed.

We have the £11 package, I don't really begrude Netflix the £. Compared to the cost of a pint or burger, it's bloody good value.

Yet people carp about just over £14 a month for the TV licence which gives you lots of decent live and streamed TV and radio, plus podcasts and one of the few websites you can approach with any degree of trust.

Can of worms there. I know so many right wingers who get engaged at its left wing bias and so many left wingers who get enraged at its right wing bias.

Is the issue there that the site can't be trusted, or that too many people approach it with locked in positions and view the presentation of facts that contradict their opinions as being some kind of government plot to subvert them?

It is definitely biased towards a general view that things like racism and violence are bad. And lots of issues are pitched as "what's the government going to do about this problem" which could be argued as left wing but it's also the general take of the right wing press as "why is the government intervening in this problem, rather than letting the market solve it" doesn't get people very worked up.

From a biased to the right basis, it tends to pick up agendas from the papers, which are obviously right wing. So Angela Raynor's housing arrangements are still ticking over, while the overt racism of the guy who gave the tories £15m is largely forgotten.

Ah. I've been expecting this. From when?

I used to have it but spent longer looking for something decent to watch than actually watching anything. Some ok stuff for the kids (that I can get elsewhere). Wasn’t a fan at all.

June.

I can't get too upset about it to be honest. Still not bad considering.

Assuming the 11 quid package is the all singing and dancing UHD / HDR / whatever and not the standard smudgeyvision.

1080p (Full HD) and two devices allowed. You need to pay £18 for 4K (Ultra HD) + HDR.

I didn't really get this from Netflix. We have it on 3 phones, a tablet, and a TV. It works fine.

I think it is concurrent devices.

The streaming services are a nightmare - at present I think we spend about £50 per month (not including the license fee) I have so far only cancelled Apple TV as we do watch all the others periodically.

Actually, make that nearer £100, I forgot about Sky.

But, on the old basic package, you can't watch on more than one device simultaneously.