I wonder if it will eventually pop up again on 7TWO, they have two-hour Sons & Daughters blocks on weekdays when I flick over.
Donāt they have to pay residuals to actors if they put classic shows on , hence why they stopped putting Home and Away Early Years on many years ago due to cost?
It used to be on 7plus. I remember watching iy a few years ago it was mid 90ās episodes.
Itās just stupid as to watch the very first season itās on a US streaming service named Freevee and isnāt available in Australia where it originated from. You would need to connect to a VPN to get access.
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Iāve heard itās on Amazon Prime Video in the UK but not sure if that is true.
Its available to purchase on Amazon Prime but not to stream. Freevee which is a really stupid name is an ad supported streaming service.
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But how would it be different from American or British shows being shown instead?
Because they have different rules etc. for overseas broadcasts.
I keep having this glitch on the Apple TV.
I open the 7Plus app and then my continue watching row has disappeared , comes back sometimes if you close and reopen.
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Iām sure actors in overseas shows earn risiduals for repeats wherever they screen.
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Yes, but it wouldnāt be the broadcaster paying it, it would be the distributor.
Itās very frustrating to watch the latest episode of The Amazing Race on 7plus. The episode goes for 43 minutes but it took me 1.5 hours to watch it. The video paused every 2-3 minutes and each time I had to refresh the browser to continue. I am not sure if the problem is caused by the broadband connection? The browser (Firefox)? Or my adblocking software?
Anyway, I must make sure I record the TV broadcast of the next episode so I donāt have to rely on 7plus again.
7plus promo promising new content every day of summerā¦
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7plus has always had problems with its ads. They have been around for how long now and they still cant get it right. 9now and tenplay both seem to be a lot better these days.
I watch things frequently on 7plus and donāt have issues, mostly on the TV apps though rather than in the browser but Iāve had problems in the past watching in the browser with the Ad-Blockers causing issues and thatās been across all the different platforms at times.
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I donāt uderstand the point of the FAST channels half of them show content already available as VOD which is better to watch anyway as I can start the episode from the beginning instead of watching potentially mid episode on the live platform. Itās a waste of bandwidth.
They have increased the amount of ads on the platform which is short sighted. People online are not going to sit through 3.5 to 4 minutes of ads in each break. Itās a dreadful experience for the viewer and does no favours to advertisers whoās ads get lost in the crowd. Yes itās a fine balance but a BVOD platform is not broadcast TV.
I would argue the ad breaks on the broadcast service are too long and should have been adjusted down to no more than 3 minutes at the beginning of the FTV downturn. Without adding additional breaks.
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Iād say itās catering to those who donāt necessarily want to think, or make a decision about, what to watch. You could apply the same argument to streaming radio online when you already have a library full of music that you could choose from
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Does anyone know how the rights work between 7plus/Channel 7 and iwonder? I noticed they have the iwonder channel and some of the content OnDemand. Is it that they have rights to all the content and are just holding back from releasing it? Or do they only have partial rights regarding OnDemand iwonder content?
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Exactly, thereās way too much choice on all the services and often I donāt know what I want to watch, I just want to have something I can flick on and zone out with - some of the FAST channels are great for that sort of thing and theyāre cheap to run. I can just flick through and go for the police channel and it doesnāt matter if Iām getting Highway Patrol or Motorbike Cops etcā¦ itās just something easy to pass the time and not think when Iām knackered.
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How about a home and away all seasons collection you used to broadcast it up to 1996
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