Numbers lift for Fetch TV
Fetch TV expects to finish the financial year with in excess of 250,000 subscribers.
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Fetch TV says it approaching 250,000 subscribers, achieving significant growth while Australia’s interest in streaming content is booming.
It expects to hit a quarter of a million subscribers by the end of the month and is profitable and debt free after years of losses.
It credits the numbers with ISPs aggressively bundling the service with connectivity packages.
“Fetch TV is now experiencing dramatic growth, with take-up driven by inclusion in telco bundles,” Fetch TV chief executive Scott Lorson told Fairfax. “Optus has been a star performer, and we are now seeing strong growth from iiNet, M2, and our retail partner Harvey Norman. We are on track to finish the financial year with in excess of 250,000 subscribers. Run rates and advanced set-top-box orders suggest that the strong subscriber growth will continue.”
Fetch has also integrated Netflix into its own service.
“Unlike the pure-play SVOD operators, Fetch TV is a platform-based ecosystem play. We seek to “win the living room” by offering a gateway to all the key entertainment services, with the added convenience of bundling, unmetering and a single bill.”
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New to fetch and wouldn’t use this type of service if it wasn’t part of a bundle. It would be a much more useful to be able to link the fetch box to a pc rather than being limited to an ipad/iphone or certain android devices. If you do link your limited to watching live tv or the included movies which aren’t anything special. The biggest missing feature within the apps is that your unable to watch recordings. The fetch would be a very useful device if it gave users the options to watch shows recorded on a variety of different devices such as pcs. I don’t think the menu or the remote is that user friendly for technical novices and when you press clear to cancel a recording it just disappears where there probably should be a warning dialog box just checking you wanted to delete it to avoid accidental presses. Fetch is ok for what it is as part of a bundle but it could be a so much…
@tvf – you can watch recorded items from ‘my stuff’ in the ipad/iphone app, you can also watch on PC via it’s media server.
Have had fetch for nearly a year and for what it is, fairly good value for money.
One feature of Fetch is they have a ‘top shows’ info screen, which I assume is realtime stats on what people on Fetch are watching. Can anyone confirm this? Does Fetch do anything re reporting wise?With 250,000 subscribers they must have a great snapshot of what people are watching and timeshifting though free, subscription and streaming?
Foxtel IQ3 also has a “trending” feature which suggests what others may be watching as STV titles (not FTA).
I believe the feature to watch recordings through an app varies with isp’s. Its a shame as some users miss out. From what I understand from the fetch tv website this feature is limited to free to air recordings anyway therefore if you have entertainment channels those recordings wouldn’t be available within the app. Hence the fetch tv would be a very useful device if you could watch all recordings on a variety of different devices such as pcs. I’m not sure what you mean by pc via media server but I’m guessing your referring to the media hub. The fetch tv website says the media hub allows users to view say photos on their tv via a pc/usb and home network. There’s nothing on the website to suggest the media hub can be use to watch fetch tv content. That’s only available on the limited apps.
The aggressive promotion lately and finally having Netflix in Australia is probably a huge contributing cause for this.
Just returned my humax box to harvey norman after 6 months of unreliability ( software updates removing scheduled records, box freezing, non response) and swapped it for a fetch box. 1 week in very happy, box very responsive, records when it is scheduled to and the app for iPad also seems to be working very well. The only downside is the package of pay TV stations is all in SD….very SD…. but not likely to keep them after the first month so no big deal. As long as the recording stays reliable and I can view recorded programs from other devices, I am very happy with Fetch.
Got Fetch recently, it’s a pretty decent service, and it works OK even with my woeful broadband (as long as no one else is streaming). That said, I don’t know I’d pay $30 a month for it if it werent bundled, I probably would just go without an STV service. The one thing I find annoying about it though are the constant ads for Foxtel channels and programmes to which one doesn’t have access!
Yes the foxtel channel promos are annoying. You have to double check whether you have that channel. Also food network asia often promos their shows without an Australian start time cause its based out of asia so you have to double check the epg for the later Australian start time.