Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox
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#2This post's title is a nightmare. Original from the article:
>How Netflix sent the biggest media companies into a frenzy, and why Netflix thinks some are getting it wrong
Re: Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox
#3These companies are obsessed with fragmenting the market for the sake of owning content from production to delivery. I have bad news for them: you're going to lose. People don't want to go back to paying $100/month for a dozen streaming "channels" with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other "channels" have.
We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub. Just the other day I had the urge to watch ghost in the shell. Not available on any of the major streaming sites (Netflix, Hulu, Prime) but available on stars via prime. So I have to pay an addition $7/month to watch a single show? No thanks. Off to a torrent site or asking around to see if someone has rips or a box set. I have better things to do with $7 like buy dinner.
Re: Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox
#4These companies are obsessed with fragmenting the market for the sake of owning content from production to delivery. I have bad news for them: you're going to lose. People don't want to go back to paying $100/month for a dozen streaming "channels" with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other "channels" have. We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub. Just the other day I had the urge to watch g…
Lionsgate Starz isn’t a big company with a lot of products so paying extra to watch things for that channel will be a challenge no matter what. On the other hand, HBO seems to be doing well enough with their not so cheap stand alone offering.
Disney with Fox’s media would be a pretty big streaming provider and many people would likely get onto it. Good chance of it becoming a standard streaming service. So I don’t see how that specific merger is a bad idea in a battle against Netflix.
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#5If those company think it’s about content libraries they’re going to lose.
All those companies think: we own a lot of media, we can just build a streaming media platform. And I think they’re way underestimating how hard it is to build the technology stack and processes that Netflix has.
Netflix has an engineering team and a development and deployment process that has some production studios attached to it.
Disney can probably copy what Netflix has today, but by the time they’ve done that, Netflix will have updated their platform hundreds of time, and I don’t think they’re going to be able to build an engineering team that can keep up.
Re: Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox
#6These companies are obsessed with fragmenting the market for the sake of owning content from production to delivery. I have bad news for them: you're going to lose. People don't want to go back to paying $100/month for a dozen streaming "channels" with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other "channels" have. We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub. Just the other day I had the urge to watch g…
>We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub.
So you want one company to control all media? Seems like a poor plan longterm.
Re: Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox
#7If those company think it’s about content libraries they’re going to lose. All those companies think: we own a lot of media, we can just build a streaming media platform. And I think they’re way underestimating how hard it is to build the technology stack and processes that Netflix has. Netflix has an engineering team and a development and deployment process that has some production studios attached to it. Disney can…
Yes. But Devil's Advocate here...
Aside from stack, whatelse does Netflix have going for it? Pre-internet Blockbuster had an overpowering / dominate "stack" and that was their downfall.
If VR is the next progression in home entertainment, who is best poised for that? Who has the tech + creativity DNA?
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#8These companies are obsessed with fragmenting the market for the sake of owning content from production to delivery. I have bad news for them: you're going to lose. People don't want to go back to paying $100/month for a dozen streaming "channels" with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other "channels" have. We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub. Just the other day I had the urge to watch g…
>We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub. So you want one company to control all media? Seems like a poor plan longterm.
Don't really care if it's a single company so long as they operate actually independently of content production and are only a distributor.
Re: Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox
#9These companies are obsessed with fragmenting the market for the sake of owning content from production to delivery. I have bad news for them: you're going to lose. People don't want to go back to paying $100/month for a dozen streaming "channels" with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other "channels" have. We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub. Just the other day I had the urge to watch g…
>We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub. So you want one company to control all media? Seems like a poor plan longterm.
There seems to be quite a few available for music. Using apple music, spotify, tidal or whatever else doesn't seem to have the exclusivity problems that TV equivalents have.
I can probably count the number of exclusive artists to each music provider on my hand.
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#10I think maybe the title could use some punctuation or reworking
> Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner...
Ok, yes, they bought Time Warner
> Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner and Comcast...
They bought Comcast too?
> Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner and Comcast and Disney...
And Disney!?
> Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner and Comcast and Disney want Fox
AT&T bought Time Warner and Comcast; Disney want Fox?