Today, if you choose to have all the streaming platforms on the market, you are going to spend more than 70 euros a month and most likely you will not squeeze any of them to the maximum.
It is completely normal, thousands of new releases, hundreds of movies, series and documentaries inside and an offer that expands day by day.
The best thing you can do, without a doubt, is opting for a single streaming platform.
Obviously, it is not a simple task, since in the end you leave a lot of content aside by betting on one and leaving the rest aside, but if you want to save it is the best thing you can do.
In my personal case, I have been using Movistar Plus for many years now and I am clear that the Spanish platform It has 5 pros and 5 cons that can help you make a decision.
Before we get into flour, I also leave you here the ones from Netflix, HBO Max and Disney Plus, so you can get an overall idea.
With all this clear, let’s go there.
The 5 advantages of Movistar Plus
Offers sports of all kinds and with a free LaLiga match every week
Beyond the usual movies, series and documentaries on streaming platforms, Movistar Plus stands out from the rest by offering a lot of sports content.
Not only for the weekly La Liga match, which often involves Madrid, Barcelona or Atlético de Madrid, but also for many other options: tennis, basketball, water polo…
It is a great addition that provides fabulous added value.
The perfect place to follow any film or series competition: the Oscars, the Goya…
If you are passionate about awards, Movistar Plus is the perfect place.
Every year it allows you to follow the Oscars and Goya gala, to name two quick examples, both live and recorded.
You can also follow awards such as the Grammys, the Golden Globes, the Baftas, the Emmys or many others, as well as European film festivals such as San Sebastián, for example.
And of those festivals or contests that they do not cover, create thematic channels with films awarded in previous editions of any awards or even premieres of films that are nominated for current awards.
daily releases
Whether it’s a movie, a series or a documentary, something new is released every day.
The best of all is that it is generally exclusive content or rather, it arrives on this platform before the rest of the streaming platforms.
A couple quick examples? The movie of Super Mario either Spider-Man: Crossing the Multiverseare now available on the platform.
The perfect place for Spanish fiction
Obviously, being a Spanish platform, it greatly enhances Spanish fiction.
And the truth is that it does so with its own top-level productions. It is only necessary to cite 2 quick examples of the latest releases on the platform: The Messiahone of the best Spanish series of recent years, or The other sidethe fun work by Berto and Buenafuente.
And the future looks promising with Greyhounds, Celeste, Marbella either Want. If you want good Spanish fiction, there is no better platform.
DTT included with the possibility of recording content or watching programs from previous days
With the DTT blackout just around the corner, having Movistar Plus can make you breathe easier, since it has the new channels as standard without you having to do anything.
Besides, you can record content or watch programs from previous days without any problem. If, for example, you follow a program that starts at 11 pm, you can always watch it the next day at a decent time and skip all the ads, what could be better?
The 4 disadvantages of Movistar Plus
It is a version that remains halfway to what a contract with Movistar really offers, but this option triggers prices
The price of the service is already expensive: 14 euros per month. This makes it only below Netflix in terms of prices, which is priced at 17.99 euros for the Premium plan.
Now, if you want the most, and see everything that the platform hides inside, it is necessary to contract a plan with Movistar, which already makes the final price remains at least 100 euros. Yes, it gives you a phone and internet, but it’s still not worth it.
Can only be viewed from one device at a time
Although it is increasingly common to restrict the use of platforms to a home, Movistar Plus goes one step further: it only allows use on a single device.
That is, if it is being used on television and I want to watch it on the tablet, since I am away, one of the 2 has to log out.
Ads required before starting any content and randomly from time to time
Again, an increasingly common practice, but on the rest of the platforms you can skip it by paying an extra fee.
In the case of Movistar, it doesn’t matter what you pay: whenever you start new content, you will have an ad of about 30 seconds that you have to eat no matter what. Worst? That this happens randomly in some content that you are already watching, which totally cuts the crap.
Somewhat confusing user experience, especially with the content trailers
Finally, Movistar Plus has a somewhat confusing interface.
I’m not talking about its structure and categories, this seems to me to be more than enough, but rather the way in which the content trailers appear. When you stop for a second on a series or movie, everything moves to the right and the trailer starts playing.
This is somewhat uncomfortable, since if what you want is to take a look at the contents calmly, there is no time, since the trailer appears without warning and without prior notice. This would be solved with a longer duration of content or simply playing a trailer if you press a button, for example.