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AroVision is a video store, not a subscription. It is the streaming sibling of AroVideo, a rental shop standing in Wellington’s Aro Valley since 1989, and the catalog shows it: close to four thousand films, no series, festival, cult, classic and unusual titles largely absent from the best known streaming service. Membership is free, the films are not. You rent or buy title by title: 30 days to start, 48 hours to finish. Licensing keeps it home: tested from Europe, under one percent opens, all New Zealand.

Freeview NZ is New Zealand’s free live TV, run by Freeview Limited, a joint venture backed by TVNZ, Sky Free, Whakaata Māori, and RNZ. Rather than broadcasting, it bundles channels for antenna, satellite, and the Freeview Streaming TV app. That live-only app streams at up to HD, without on-demand shows or subtitles. By our September 2026 count, it carries 21 TV channels, including TVNZ 1 and Three, and 5 radio stations. Built for New Zealand only, it runs on supported smart TVs, Android TV devices, and SmartVU, not phones or browsers.

MĀORI+ is the free streaming service of Whakaata Māori, New Zealand’s Indigenous public broadcaster, run by the Māori Television Service, a statutory body established in 2003. Launched in 2021, it offers drama, documentaries, kapa haka, sport, news, te reo courses and the Tamariki Hā kids section, alongside two live channels, Whakaata Māori and Te Reo. The operator states that MĀORI+ may be accessed outside New Zealand, but programme availability varies by country. Each title carries its own label; sport and live events travel furthest, while films and scripted titles usually stay home.

NZ On Screen says it plainly: you can stream here, but this is not a commercial platform like Netflix. It is a curated collection of Aotearoa New Zealand’s screen history, run by the independent charitable Digital Media Trust and funded mainly by NZ On Air. It opened in October 2008 with 280 titles and today holds more than 4,500 titles free to view, with no advertising and no subscription. Classic television, series, documentaries, short films, music videos, web series and over 370 ScreenTalk interviews with industry figures, many titles represented by one episode or clip. Most of the free archive plays anywhere, a minority is limited to New Zealand, and the NZOS+ rental library, open since May 2026, serves New Zealand and Australia.

Neon is a subscription streaming service that works only in New Zealand. Sky Network Television has run it from Mt Wellington in Auckland since February 2015, and in July 2020 it absorbed Lightbox, which Sky had bought from Spark New Zealand. The geoblock is strict: Sky’s help pages say you must be in the country to press play. The library covers movies, series, documentaries, and kids’ shows licensed from Sony Pictures Television, Paramount, and BBC Studios, with no sport, no news, and no live channels. Three tiers are on offer: a monthly Basic with Ads carrying commercial breaks, a monthly Standard, and an annual pass that costs less than twelve months of Standard. There is no free trial. Streaming tops out at HD on 2 screens at once, and movie rentals sit outside the plan.

Shine TV, New Zealand’s first nationwide Christian television network, is run by Rhema Media, an Auckland nonprofit that also owns Rhema, Life FM and Sanctuary radio. On air since December 2002, it sits on Freeview channel 25, free and ad supported, with 222 series and 31 movies on demand. Rights stop at the border, so abroad you can browse but not play: from a Czech address on September 8, 2026, 124 of 174 video pages, 71 percent, would not start.

Sky Network Television Limited, an independent New Zealand broadcaster listed on the NZX, launched Sky Go NZ in December 2013, renaming its earlier iSKY. Register and the free to air channel Sky Open plays with no paid account, local shows and documentaries included. Starter subscribers and above get the app at no extra cost: it runs on the same subscription as satellite and adds Catch Up, though not everything on satellite is licensed. It plays on phones, tablets and browsers; a TV needs casting; New Zealand only.

Sky Sport Now is New Zealand’s live sport streaming service, run by Sky Network Television Ltd from its Auckland base. Launched in August 2019 as the successor to Fan Pass, it carries live sport only, no movies or series, across twelve Sky Sport channels plus ESPN, live and on demand. The line-up spans All Blacks and Super Rugby Pacific, NRL and State of Origin, cricket including ICC events, netball, Formula 1, the Premier League, A-League, NBA, golf and Supercars. Most streams run up to 1080p, with limited 4K on the Sky Sport 1 UHD channel for Premium and Annual pass holders and no HDR, on web, mobile, Apple TV, Chromecast and major smart TVs. It is a paid, pass-based service available only inside New Zealand.

TVNZ+ is the free, ad-supported streaming home of Television New Zealand, the country’s state-owned public broadcaster. It took over from the old TVNZ OnDemand in June 2022. You get the live channels TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2 and DUKE alongside a deep on-demand library: homegrown New Zealand shows such as the long-running soap Shortland Street, Country Calendar and Taskmaster NZ, 1News bulletins, and international titles licensed through an ITV Studios deal, including Coronation Street, The Chase and Love Island. Everything is paid for by advertising. The service is free once you set up a registered account, with no subscription and no ad-free tier. The only paid add-on is an optional one-off Event Pass for selected sports events such as UFC. It works in New Zealand only and stays geo-blocked abroad. Video tops out at 1080p, with no 4K or HDR.

ThreeNow is a free, ad-supported New Zealand streaming service run by Sky Free Limited, and what defines it is the shape of its catalog. As of 8 September 2026 the library held 661 titles, led by 367 from Three, 103 from eden, 70 from HGTV, 61 from Rush, 40 from Bravo and 20 from Sky Open. Documentary and factual programming dominates with 205 shows, followed by 142 reality series, 95 dramas, 59 movies and 38 comedies, plus 75 locally made New Zealand productions and 10 titles in te reo Māori. True crime and paranormal strands run deep, and motorsport fans get MotoGP, NASCAR, SailGP and Auckland FC. Watching costs nothing, but an account is required and the library is locked to New Zealand.

DAZN is a sports-first streaming service built to compete with traditional pay-TV sports channels. The schedule shifts dramatically from country to country: in Germany it carries the Bundesliga and Champions League matches, in Italy it owns the majority of Serie A, in Japan it runs baseball and boxing. The global side of DAZN remains its combat sports division, where it has become one of the biggest buyers of marquee boxing pay-per-view events.

Netflix didn’t invent streaming but it set the rules everyone else now plays by. With 325 million paying subscribers across 190 countries and a stable of shows like Squid Game, Stranger Things and Wednesday, it still defines what mainstream streaming looks like. Recent pushes into live sports and ad-supported plans show the company is willing to bend its own playbook when the market demands it.

Max is Warner Bros. Discovery’s attempt to keep everything important in one app: HBO’s prestige catalogue, the DC Universe, Warner Bros. theatrical slate and the reality-heavy Discovery library. The product still leans on HBO’s reputation for Sunday-night event TV (Succession, The Last of Us, House of the Dragon) but the expanded library means there is something for almost every household.

Apple TV+ takes the opposite approach to almost everyone else: no licensed back catalogue, only original productions. The result is a comparatively small library where misses are rare and hits like Ted Lasso, Severance, Slow Horses and For All Mankind have picked up Emmys. A single tier covers 4K HDR with Dolby Atmos, and the service is bundled into Apple One for households already invested in the Apple ecosystem.

Prime Video lives inside the wider Prime bundle, so streaming is only part of what you’re paying for. The content mix is unusual: splashy originals (The Boys, The Rings of Power, Reacher) sit next to a huge catalogue of movies available to rent or buy and a growing set of optional add-on Channels. Prime has also turned into a heavyweight in live sports, from Thursday Night Football to Champions League in select markets.

Paramount+ gathers the Paramount Pictures film vault, CBS prime-time drama, Nickelodeon kids programming and MTV reality into one subscription. The backbone is Taylor Sheridan’s growing slate of originals (the Yellowstone spin-offs 1923 and Lawman: Bass Reeves, plus Tulsa King), with Star Trek carrying the sci-fi side and South Park providing the decades-old evergreen. In select regions the service also carries NFL games and UEFA Champions League, blurring the line with traditional sports packages.

Disney+ is the one place where Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic sit alongside the general-entertainment hub Star. It launched globally in November 2019 and reached the Czech Republic in June 2022. Most markets now offer three tiers: an ad-supported entry plan plus the ad-free Standard (Full HD) and Premium (4K HDR with Dolby Atmos), while a few countries such as the Czech Republic keep only the two ad-free plans. Annual billing trims roughly two months off the yearly cost.

EuroLeague TV is the official streaming home of European basketball, operated by the league itself through Euroleague Ventures, an IMG partnership run out of Barcelona. The service carries every Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and BKT EuroCup game live and on demand, plus a deep archive of classic encounters and a round-the-clock EL 24/7 channel. There are some hard limits to know about. Coverage is fully blacked out in Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, where FloSports holds North American rights. German club matches air on a delay, with MagentaSport carrying them live, and France got the platform back as the primary route in March 2026. Access comes as an annual Season Pass.

FIAWEC+ is the official streaming home of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the global stage for long-distance motorsport. It is run jointly by the championship and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, the ACO in Le Mans, France, which means the feeds come straight from the people behind the racing. The service carries every WEC session and the complete 24 Hours of Le Mans, with onboard cameras, Live Timing Pro and a multi-season archive on top. You also get WEC Originals and the behind-the-scenes WEC Insider documentaries, all in crisp 1080p HD. There is no built-in smart-TV app, but Chromecast and AirPlay push it to the big screen.

MotoGP VideoPass is the official streaming service of the road racing world championship, operated by Dorna Sports (renamed MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group in 2026, majority-owned by Liberty Media and headquartered in Madrid). It carries every MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3 and MotoE session live, from practice and qualifying through sprints to the races themselves, across all 22 Grands Prix of the 2026 season. A six-angle Multifeed lets you switch between camera views, including onboard shots, while Multiview stacks several feeds on one screen and a deep archive reaches back to 1992. Everything streams in 1080p on the web, mobiles, tablets, and the major connected-TV platforms.

NWSL+ is the National Women’s Soccer League’s own free, ad-supported streaming app, built on Endeavor Streaming technology. Sign up with an email and you can watch live matches, replays and highlights from every game across more than 130 countries. The 2026 season grew to 16 teams, including new clubs Denver Summit FC and Boston Legacy FC. In the United States many marquee fixtures sit with partners like Prime Video and ESPN, so NWSL+ carries only the leftover live games at home. A VPN simply changes your location.

The Inner Circle is the official streaming home of ONE Championship, the Singapore-based Asian combat promotion run by Group ONE Holdings. It carries live cards across MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing and submission grappling, including the Friday-night ONE Friday Fights from Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium, ONE Fight Night events, numbered shows, plus replays and a deep archive. As of June 2026 it runs as a global subscription. Be aware that the platform applies strict VPN checks at purchase and during playback, and blacks out events where local broadcasters hold the live rights, so what you can watch live depends on the country you connect from.

Rally.TV is the official streaming home of the FIA World Rally Championship, operated by Germany’s WRC Promoter. It started life in 2014 as WRC+ and took on its current name in August 2023. Alongside the WRC itself you get the European Rally Championship, World Rallycross and the support classes WRC2, WRC3 and Junior WRC. Every special stage runs live, backed by real-time GPS tracking, onboard cameras from every car, condensed highlights and a deep archive. The 2026 season spans fourteen rounds. It works on the web, iOS, Android, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV and Chromecast, plus there’s a free ad-supported channel, Rally.TV FAST+, on Samsung TV Plus, LG Channels, Rakuten TV and Pluto TV.

RugbyPass TV is World Rugby’s own free, ad-supported streaming service, run out of the governing body’s Dublin headquarters and launched back in August 2023, a fortnight before that year’s World Cup kicked off. There’s no fee at all; you just create a free account and start watching. The catalogue spans the men’s and women’s Rugby World Cup, WXV, the Pacific Nations Cup, the U20 Championship and HSBC SVNS sevens plus qualifiers, topped up with more than 10,000 hours of archive and World Rugby Studios originals. One catch: individual fixtures get blacked out wherever a local broadcaster holds the rights, such as Stan in Australia or Peacock in the States.