The wait for SkyShowtime in Spain is over. After multiple delays since its first announcement, and as we confirmed two weeks ago, andThis new streaming platform can now be contracted in our country, thus expanding the already extensive offer of film and series platforms that we currently have. It seems like yesterday when the offer was much more limited but, of course, it concentrated a greater amount of content for each service.
Thus, for some time now, streaming has become a very complicated market, in which we have seen how some of the main platforms have made multimillion-dollar investments in large blockbusters, and also how recently a large part of them have had to cancel projects and lay off part of their workers, since the market seems to have reached its peak and users are starting to get a little tired of having to register (and pay, of course) to be able to access a good selection of content.
However, although it seems difficult to increase the number of people interested in this type of service, it seems much easier to carry out actions so that the existing ones decide to change one service for another, if the offer is tempting enough. Such was the case with HBO Max in its debut in Spain, by offering a monthly fee of 4.49 euros per month for life if you contracted it during its first weeks. A promotion that attracted many users, even despite the failures that occurred during the first days.
SkyShowtime has also opted for an offer in this regard, so that those who sign up between the time of its launch (this morning) and 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, They will enjoy a monthly fee of 2.99 euros for life, compared to 5.99 euros, which will be its normal price once the promotion ends. In case you have any doubts, a few days ago we told you what series the platform will have between its launch and its first days on the market. And the truth is that, at least in this sense, the offer is more than tempting. Now keep in mind that You can only enjoy this offer if you contract the service from its website.
Registration with SkyShowtime is quite quick and easy and, for payment, we can use a credit card or our account PayPal. We will have to validate the email account (it is the only means of contact that is requested of us, we will not have to give the telephone number), and despite the imaginable high demand that will have occurred during the day, the emails seem to arrive from immediately, so we understand that they have the necessary infrastructure to avoid problems like those that HBO had.
Regarding its operation, after a first test the service seems to work quite well, although I have verified that SkyShowtime has a preference for the original dubbing, which is the one with which it reproduces the contents even if you have previously started to see them in Spanish. I want to think, however, that this will be corrected soon and, of course, it does not detract from the overall rating of the service.
