As the streaming boom completes its transition into digital pay-TV’s streaming-centric era, the hunt for the streaming nirvana you never knew you wanted has become the Bermuda Triangle of 2018 and beyond. With the proliferation of streaming options having crossed the line between the right number of choices (more is better!) and becoming the black hole of choice (now there’s too much!), the right tech can help you not only set up your own streaming system but also convert content inundation into a spellbinding and personalised cinematic sanctum.
If anything, you might end up spending more time deciding than watching, which could lead to the digital streaming universe’s version of the ‘paradox of choice’: the decision fatigue that arises from having too many options. The obvious solution – subscribing to every service under the sun – is hardly practical. So, perhaps the real way to watch everything is to maximise your content options by making Netflix and friends (and others) think they are in another country and, in doing so, open a door with a VPN.
It isn’t just a cybersecurity cloak, it’s a portal into frictionless cross-border content: by hiding your real IP address and routing your internet connection through servers in other countries, a VPN sends you skidding through the matrix of forbidden, geo-blocked content.
And the real allure of a VPN isn’t security, it’s the promise of diving into a larger ocean of movies, series and shows available around the world. With a VPN, virtually any geographical restriction disappears, allowing you to stay at home and head south on Netflix UK, far beyond what’s on offer at home.
It’s easier than you think to break away from the UK BBC iPlayer and lose yourself in the plenitude of UK Netflix. The steps are clear:
And remember, you still need to pay for Netflix. So it’s not an either/or proposition. A VPN simply adds to your Netflix subscription, giving you an escape to other creative content.
A free VPN will let you poke your head into the multinational streaming world, but those are rarely unlimited in terms of data caps, which is where you’ll quickly trip up if you are a streamer or a downloader. A free trial of a premium VPN, with its full toolset, will let you escape for a while — maybe a week, maybe two — but it won’t be sustainable for your data-consuming eye candy binge.
Finding the best VPN for watching Netflix involves weighing up conflicting priorities including how fast the connection is, how secure you need it to be, how many servers it has, and whether it works with streaming services. While this search for the ‘best’ is always to an extent subjective, if you search for VPNs praised in the past year for their reliability unblocking UK Netflix and their features, this should guide you to good service.
Finally, digital streaming is a vast and complicated landscape, but with the right equipment, all your listeners can join you on your journey. A VPN is more than a safety precaution, it’s a ticket out of your sound booth and into the world of global entertainment, an opportunity to break free from the boundaries of geography.
‘Escape’ in the streaming sense no longer just means being able to break out of geo-blocks – it means being able to explore a thousand other cultures, stories and perspectives around the world from the confines of the sofa. As we become more and more dependent on our screens for connection, these escapes enrich us and increase our knowledge of the world at large.
Armed with a VPN, your voyage across a briny sea of data is a voyage of discovery, with plentiful maps full of destinations that are not only accessible but enjoyable, and keep you from running aground. Bon voyage!
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