So my mission, if I chose to accept it, was this: to go forth into the great unknown of the internet, into the daunting wilds of our new TV streaming services, and come back with tales of my adventures, good and bad.
There's been an awful lot written about these damn internet-based services since they were first announced and more ink still has been spilled with the arrival, finally, of Netflix, the alleged gold standard for these sorts of services, at least in the US and Europe.
And sadly I've bought the hype. Well most of it. Of the three major services now available - Netflix, Lightbox and Neon - I've signed up for the first two, though not the third, mainly because we feel we're giving Sky TV, which owns Neon, enough of our hard-earned already; plus the buggers at Neon seem mainly to be flogging stuff we've previously paid to see on Sky, but at the new extortionate rate of an extra $20 a month.
So two flash shiny services giving me a gazillion more hours of television to watch. And so far I'm feeling pretty "meh" about them both.
There's been a lot of huffing and puffing about the flash new shows available on these services. Lightbox is raving about giving us Better Call Saul and, this week, Wolf Hall, while Netflix has banged on about having the newest season of Orange Is The New Black.
