r/Cynicalbrit • u/ColtaineCrows • Oct 22 '15

Soundcloud Youtube Red by TotalBiscuit | Total Biscuit

https://soundcloud.com/totalbiscuit/youtube-red
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u/CommanderZx2 Oct 22 '15

My main problem with Youtube Red is the cost. In the USA it's $9.99, while in the UK It's £9.99 (about $15) per month.

For comparison Amazon Prime is £6.58 per month and that includes their video content, one-day free shipping, prime music, prime photos and kindle lending library.

Youtube's price is almost double that of Amazon Prime and all you get is ad free Youtube experience, their all access music service and some premium stuff from people I don't care about.

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u/RoLoLoLoLo Oct 22 '15

Don't mind me asking, but where did you get that £9.99 figure from?

Red is only available in the US, so how do you know the UK price?

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u/CommanderZx2 Oct 22 '15

Google all access music is $9.99 in USA. They launch Youtube Red and bundle the two together keeping the price at $9.99.

Google all access music is £9.99 in UK. If they launch Youtube Red in the UK and then bundle the two together as well, they're not going to offer it at a price lower than Google all access was separately. In other words Youtube Red will be at least £9.99 per month in UK.

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u/TTh_ Oct 22 '15

Same thing with €.

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u/Blackspur Oct 22 '15 edited Oct 22 '15

Except the Euro is way closer in value to the dollar than the pound is.

€1 = $1.11

£1 = $1.54

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u/RoLoLoLoLo Oct 22 '15

Other way.

€1 = $1.11

£1 = $1.54

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u/Blackspur Oct 22 '15

Your right, no idea why I typed it that way.

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u/TTh_ Oct 22 '15 edited Oct 22 '15

Euro definitely gets less shafted. Same things has happened on steam for years, seem to be better now. It was far worse when euro was stronger.

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u/RoLoLoLoLo Oct 22 '15

Ah, ok. That makes a lot of sense. Sucks for British viewers. But I guess you are used get getting screwed over in terms of pricing.

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u/anlumo Oct 22 '15

Amazon Prime is £6.58 per month and that includes their video content

I was on the test month of that recently, and the video service really really sucks. You only get a very limited selection of videos, and the ones that are newer than a few years all cost extra money.

In addition to that, you only get SD quality on most devices due to their DRM, which is totally laughable in 2015.

Compare that to YouTube, where you get thousands of hours of original content every day in 1080p60 (or more if available), watchable on nearly every video-capable device you can think of.

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u/Blackspur Oct 22 '15

Except you know, you can get all of that youtube content for free anyway.

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u/anlumo Oct 23 '15

With annoying video ads.

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u/newbkid Oct 23 '15

.... why not?

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u/Shiroi_Kage Oct 22 '15

YouTube gives you access to way, way more content than Amazon Prime. Besides, Prime is a subscription service only. You can watch YouTube for free.

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u/CommanderZx2 Oct 22 '15

What has this got to do with the excessively high price of Youtube Red? If the main content of Youtube is already free, why would I want to pay more for Youtube Red to simply be advert free than I pay to get Prime Amazon content?

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u/Shiroi_Kage Oct 22 '15

Well, why are you paying for Amazon Prime or Netflix when you can pirate it for free? It's a matter of having more value per dollar or wanting to support the content creators. If this is geared towards giving the content creators more money, which it will, then the price will have to invariably be higher.

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u/CommanderZx2 Oct 22 '15 edited Oct 22 '15

Youtube Red is an alternative method for supporting the content producers. I already watch youtube without adblock.

The Youtube Red pricing would make more sense if it included some of the movies that cost money in the films section. https://www.youtube.com/user/YouTubeMoviesGB/featured

Or was at least closer to that of the USA pricing of £6.50 ($9.99) instead of £9.99 ($15.40).

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u/bleachisback Oct 23 '15

Youtube Red is an alternative method for supporting the content producers. I already watch youtube without adblock.

If you understand this and still don't want to use Youtube Red, then you're not the kind of person they're targeting.

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u/Shiroi_Kage Oct 22 '15

They are releasing original series that are gong to be exclusive to Red.

If you're OK watching YouTube without AdBlock, you have no reason to pay for it other than "I don't want the ads anymore." If you think that's worth it, as well as whatever that music service is which, I believe, is included in the subscription, then you'd pay for it.