Re: [NEWS] Apple TV+ streaming free for two days

On 2024-12-30 23:21:53 +0000, super70s said:

On 2024-12-30 19:54:41 +0000, Your Name said:

 The article keeps saying "three days", but Apple's Twitter / X post actually only says "Jan 4-5".
  Apple TV+ Will Be Free to Stream for Three Days
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Tech giant promotes free worldwide access to original titles
including 'Severance,' 'Shrinking,' 'Ted Lasso,' 'The Morning
Show' and more.
 Apple is hoping those who don't subscribe to Apple TV+ will
ring in 2025 by binge-watching some of its original TV shows
and movies - free for anyone with an Apple ID for three days.
 The full Apple TV+ catalog will be free to stream to users
worldwide the first weekend of the year (from Friday, Jan. 3,
to Sunday, Jan. 5), on on any device where the streaming
service is available. All you need is an Apple ID and password
to sign in for the free two-day weekend promotional period.
 The free promo is, of course, intended to drive people to sign
up for Apple TV+ at the regular price: $9.99/month (or
$99.99/year) in the U.S. Apple does not publicly disclose how
many subscribers it has for Apple TV+, which it launched in
November 2019.
 Apple touted a range of TV series available on the streaming
service, including "Severance" (which returns for Season 2 on
Jan. 17), the Emmy-winning "Ted Lasso" and "The Morning Show,"
and others including "Silo," "Shrinking," "Bad Sisters,"
"Slow Horses," "Disclaimer" and "Presumed Innocent." It also
suggested users can "get your mind blown by celebrated sci-fi
series" like "Dark Matter," "For All Mankind" and "Foundation."
 In addition, the Apple TV+ lineup includes family movies like
"Fly Me to the Moon," starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing
Tatum, and "The Family Plan," starring Mark Wahlberg and
Michelle Monaghan; plus action-comedy "Wolfs" starring George
Clooney and Brad Pitt, and "The Instigators" starring Matt
Damon and Casey Affleck.
 Twitter / X post:
<https://x.com/AppleTV/status/1873730763356795379>
   <https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/apple-tv-plus-free-streaming-1236262179/> 

 Looks like the Apple app is available on Roku.
 Speaking of free trials I don't know what happened to free HBO/Cinemax previews, I haven't had one since Nov. 2022.
 But Apple's TWO WHOLE DAYS! The HBO previews were supposed to last for a week but would go on for 10 days or so before my provider finally got around to turning it off. Two days isn't even worth fooling with (I can only imagine the hassle you'd have to go through to set it up from scratch).

Sky TV in New Zealand (and presumably Australia) occasionally offers subscribers of the basic packages free access to the pay-extra movie channels. They did that recently for a free month, which in reality lasted about a week longer.
Such deals can be quite good for movies (I think we recorded about half a dozen), but limited free access for regular TV shows can often not be worth it because you see the first couple of episodes and then they get stuck back behind the pay-extra wall.