Hmm. Signed up, but not sure if I'll follow through the one free month.
Seriously, all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but The Avengers and Avengers Assemble missing? What a joke is this? (I'm in Germany)
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Maestro isn't a credit card, it's a debit card. Probably worth getting a decent credit card !
Not everyone is happy to use CREDIT card. You can get a gift card that is top up. Some large shopping centers and shop chains offer them. They will have Visa or Mastercard logo and can be used as regular CC.
No problems in Australia getting a Mastercard which is actually a debit card.
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>Amazon has a long way to go. Indeed. Its OK at the moment given that its piggy-backing off the Prime subscription. Without that I doubt I'd subscribe.
Considering I can't even watch it on my Chromecast without having my laptop stream it I barely use the service at all. The integrated "smart TV" Amazon app I have is a total pain to use.
Same here. Vizio?
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#364"China's not one of them"
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#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Flipping the question a little bit, how do you justify paying actors 40 million for a movie if they're being streamed online for $5 a pop? This is basic supply and demand. Harrison Ford has a monopoly on Harrison Ford, so if you want Harrison Ford, you have to pay what Harrison Ford wants for it.
There are 2 sides to the transaction and it comes down to margins. If the margins don't exist to pay Harrison Ford $40M then either he takes less $ or another actor is found.
>Or the movie doesn't happen and we will see movies of lower quality because of that in coming years?
Hard to imagine how that would be possible...
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I think it would be interesting to see rise of actors' fees over that period of time. Sure cable companies make money but most money seems to be going to TV networks and in turn TV actors.
Sure cable companies make money but most money seems to be going to TV networks and in turn TV actors Do you have figures on that? I would surprise me if actor salaries were major cost, but I don't know the industry.
I guess you are right. This is one link I found about TV show economics http://priceonomics.com/the-economics-of-a-hit-tv-show/
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#367Atleast in India, it will not take off. Present internet facilities in India will not be able to serve this. At an avg HD streaming of a movie in netflix for 2hrs takes around 3GB bandwidth. In India, except Hyderabad, any major city the internrt charges are so high that no one adopts it.
For ex: in Bangalore, for 2000rs, you get 20mbps connection capped at 50Gb and after that its 8mbps only. If I take BSNL, for 2000rs, you get 10mbps capped at 30Gb and so on. However it might be good for Hyderabad people, where 2000rs, you get 50mbps connection capped at 350Gb.
My point is Indian internet cant simply scale to serve Netflix presently. They should tie up with ISPs to something magic
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#368What was stopping them?
Living in Russia (St.-Petersburg), [1] I'm experiencing firsthand the territorial restrictions that transnational companies impose on us. E.g. Amazon doesn't offer any books in Russian and for a long time there wasn't anything of substance to read in App Store nor Google Play, either.
I assumed it's because copyright law works different in every country: to be able to offer all the property they already have rights to in the USA, in the new country (e.g. Russia), they have to strike deal(s) with the copyright holders in that country, perhaps a lengthy and/or impossible task. Yet it doesn't look like it in case of Netflix: they started working in 130+ countries overnight.
[1] I wonder if it the Russian St.-Petersburg mentioned in the press release? Works either way: Singapore is far from both.
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Or the movie doesn't happen and we will see movies of lower quality because of that in coming years?
The original Star Wars did okay using no-name actors instead of paying Harrison Ford $10 million just to show up.
Though it did do ok paying Harrison Ford to (not just) show up.
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#370not available in China...