AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark Ages

Post by criddell » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 1:49 AM UTC

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The solution is DirecTV Now and, while far from perfect, is under very active development.

It's not really a solution. It has a terrible interface. Same with Playstation Vue and Hulu+Live TV. They're all geared towards people who turn on their tv and get blared at by whatever random channel it's tuned to. None of them comes close to what Tivo was doing 20 years ago where the menu of your currently recorded shows became front and center and live tv became a secondary concern. Not to mention that several of…

> some even convert your recorded shows into on-demand versions which (or course) contain unskippable commercials

Is there a higher paid tier that gets rid of those commercials?

Post by Retric » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 4:59 PM UTC

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How many of those HBO titles are more than 5 years old? Because, comparing 45 years of programming to 5 is completely missing the point. GoT was low hanging fruit with great source material. Recently HBO’s actual original content has been lacking. Their library is enough to get people to sign up and binge watch old content, but they need to pay for a lot of 3rd party content and or high volume production like Netflix…

> How many of those HBO titles are more than 5 years old? Because, comparing 45 years of programming to 5 is completely missing the point. No, having 45 years of exclusive back catalog is a real and concrete competitive advantage. > GoT was low hanging fruit with great source material. I'm not sure I agree; I mean, I get why it seems like they in retrospect, but the history of genre fiction jumping from print to film…

HBO was mostly showing Movies aka 3rd party content. Their original content was largely differentiation so people had a reason to pay for HBO over Stars becase they both had movies but only HBO had the Sopranos.

In that context having a small number of very high quality shows works well. But, exclusive high quality moves are really expensive.

Over the next 45 years AT&T does not want to produce a lot of content, they simply can’t stay competitive without a lot of new content.

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