Does anybody worry that people will just subscribe for one month out of the year and watch everything and then cancel?
I am sure most people will be more busier than you think to watch every thing in a month..
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#82... and data caps will put it out.
Serious question: Would nationalizing Comcast fix anything, or make it worse?
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#83Does anybody worry that people will just subscribe for one month out of the year and watch everything and then cancel?
How much TV can you (and do you want to) watch in a month? Plus, with their ongoing series, you can get caught up on a show or two, but a year later and there'll be more content for the shows you watched.
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#84Netflix has it easy on content production, all they need do is fill evening TV viewing for a younger generation, and content that can be put in front of children. They do not have the overhead of filling 24 hours a day with new content, Netflix is all killer no filler in terms of content production. And it turns out, that that's only a few hundred hours of TV per viewer per year, many of whom belong to those same sma…
The thing about Netflix is that is isn't just USA, here in the UK we've sat and taken USA content 3 years late, in the mean time the internet and newspapers full of spoilers and memes about those shows. So what to do? Pirate them? When Netflix turned up it was amazing!!
But the biggest selling point? For us is ... reception. Yeah, in the old days TV was full of snow. Now we've gone digital TV is just glitches and pops and whistles. We go from around 180 channels to 20 every time we re-scan the TV (which is about once a month) .... most of the time the TV is unwatchable.
Everyone I know is now Netflix and/or Amazon and/or both.
Whoever gets Premier Football, Ruby, F1, Moto GP, Formula E and the olympics will win TV forever.
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#85Don't know if the catalogue is the same here in the UK than in the US, but in the UK Netflix is only good for TV shows. The movie offering is very light. The other thing is the lack of offline viewing, which is useful when travelling. The media industry is so backward. I can't believe most of them still live in the 90s and these problems haven't been solved yet.
>The media industry is so backward. I can't believe most of them still live in the 90s and these problems haven't been solved yet. Part of the problem is the broken status of international copyright law and the many incompatible local laws and regulations. If the international community could at least settle for an standard approach to digital distribution over the internet, the world would be a happier place for con…
I'm not sure that that's really the issue. The music industry has solved all those problems long ago - I can buy a lossless version of practically any album, free of DRM and knowing that those files will be mine and forever playable.
Here in europe, and I'm assuming the US as well, there's no way to buy and own a movie or TV show in a similar way. It's either DRM or physical media, usually accompanied by long delays before the release reaches europe. Or if available on Amazon Video the film often won't be available in its original language and instead only offer german (for me). Not sure how iTunes or Google handle that but in a nutshell: It's a mess and it has led me to lose interest in film and movies in recent years since a lot of the releases I've been interested in either weren't available or put up barriers left and right.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought you had to pay the tax for any screen, regardless of where the content comes from?
Only if the screen has a tuner and aerial I think; a monitor wouldn't require one.
This used to be the case. It changed very recently to requiring a license for all live TV, regardless of how it's received.
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#87... and data caps will put it out. Serious question: Would nationalizing Comcast fix anything, or make it worse?
This is a problem in the US, not everywhere (nearly everywhere) else in the world.
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#88Hollywood is ripe for disruption. They remind me of the old 1970s auto industry: fat, happy, and stagnant. They don't do "plot" anymore, churning out nothing but totally formulaic rehashes and reboots and franchise flicks. I don't think viewers are as dumb as Hollywood thinks. Hollywood gets away with this schlock because they have little competition at the high end of film making. Netflix can do what the Japanese au…
The super hero movies are getting annoying. The same goes for arkward unfunny comedian movies.
I hope Hollywood revives action movies (1980/90s style; eg Die Hard 1/2) with real stunts and little CGI again, as well as films with good realistic stories, realistic characters, funny and with a little drama (eg The Family Stone).
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The media industry is so backward. I can't believe most of them still live in the 90s and these problems haven't been solved yet. Part of the problem is the broken status of international copyright law and the many incompatible local laws and regulations. If the international community could at least settle for an standard approach to digital distribution over the internet, the world would be a happier place for con…
I'm not sure that that's really the issue. The music industry has solved all those problems long ago - I can buy a lossless version of practically any album, free of DRM and knowing that those files will be mine and forever playable. Here in europe, and I'm assuming the US as well, there's no way to buy and own a movie or TV show in a similar way. It's either DRM or physical media, usually accompanied by long delays…
I haven't found lossless music to be easy to come by legally, am I missing some large site? Amazon for instance only sells MP3s.
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#90Brit here wondering how this shift within the industry will affect the BBC. We own a screen, Netflix subscription and Chromecast, and do not pay for a TV License. While this setup is not even remotely commonplace yet, it could be a real threat over the next decade, especially as iPlayer usage is free without owning a License. I would like to see the TV License flipped on its head: you pay a subscription that gets you…
The BBC's big threat just now is probably not the Internet, but the current Government. It's already lost £.75bn of its budget, and some conservatives would like to ban the BBC from producing popular content.
I really don't know how to parse that last sentence. What is the logic (or lack thereof) there? I don't keep up with what the BBC gets done to it by the UK government.