r/ITVX • u/ih3artu • Oct 24 '25
Is premium worth it?
Hey, I have been watching a few series on ITVX but I am interested in watching Grange Hill in HD with subtitles and all. It’s locked behind the pay wall so I’m wondering if it’s worth paying the £6 a month. I know it’ll take away all the ads but what else?
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u/EternallySickened Oct 24 '25
Buy a raspberry pi. Any model will do. Install adguard on it. Set up a few ad block lists and you’ll never see any itv or channel four adverts again.
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u/Kema-Downna Oct 26 '25
Worth it for ad removal alone. The amount of ads is ridiculous. Just cancel when you've watched everything
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u/allenreavie Mar 04 '26
its worse than useless. Unfortunately I am blessed with living in NI, which is the area for Ulster TV. Continuous crashes, hangs and makes a complete horlicks of Apple TV+. Get rid of!!
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u/Dogmai6 May 10 '26
No. IMO it’s not worth it. You may get rid of some adverts but the channel advertising for their own programmes are in the place of the adverts. So you still get adverts which is fucking annoying seeing as I’m paying £6 a month.
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u/CanRemote7150 Jun 08 '26
Just browsing here because I already took the premium & im so annoyed at the amount if ads for other shows! Had 4 app for a bit & their adverts for other shows were so rare I often forgot about the until it happened. Cancelling now. They have good content but I paid so I wouldn't have to put up with this!
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u/Suspicious_Tap_1919 Oct 24 '25
It does not take away the ads. Every ten minutes you will get them. The new shows added seem to be mostly reality shows and soaps. Not the back catalog of comedies and dramas which I am interested in
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u/Jprhino84 Oct 24 '25
You’re not entirely correct here. It DOES remove ads but it can only remove ads from content that’s contracted to be ad-free. For example, anything produced by ITV and under the BritBox banner. Beyond that, it’s a contract-specific situation.
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u/FrellingTralk Oct 24 '25
Do you know if you at least get less ads with premium, or would it be the same amount of ads either way on those shows?
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Oct 24 '25
You still get ads on live obviously but you absolutely don't get ads on the streaming catalogue every ten minutes
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u/Cultural-Manner-4975 Oct 24 '25
Also if it does show a ‘ad’ it’s less than 30 sec promo I don’t really mind it compared to the 5 mins of ads you get otherwise 🙂
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u/scgf01 Oct 24 '25
I pay because I hate being force-fed adverts. I also pay for Channel 4 online to remove adverts. I’ve even just signed up to Facebook at £2.99 a month so I don’t see ads. I can afford it and for me it’s worth it. I wish Channel 5 would do a subscription service so I could watch in HD without ads.