> Even when taking into consideration smaller services with less than 1M subscribers, there haven’t been any new streaming service launches in 2022.
Not only did CNN+ launch in 2022, it also folded in 2022.
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#22This is already wrong. SkyShowtime launched today in western Europe.
They're limiting to services with 1M subscribers. Which means they often won't list ones for the current year!
(This methodology means you can be reasonably accurate for past years, but the current year and possibly recent years will miss services that will later get to 1M)
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#23This is already wrong. SkyShowtime launched today in western Europe.
No plans to launch in the UK. Is that because we already have NowTV which those 20 other counties don't? So is this just NowTv outside of the UK? Maybe not so new?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Netflix should have bought out NBC, CBS/Paramount, Discovery, or (most significantly) HBO/WB. Or even just their perpetual streaming rights back in the 00's. Letting Discovery acquire WB was one of the biggest mistakes they've ever made. Just imagine if Netflix had the HBO and WB slate. Game of Thrones, all of DC, Cartoon Network... HBO has the superior content lineup, and they let that slide through their fingers. T…
Netflix couldn’t afford WB or NBC without slowing down the rest of their content production. A lot of the content they would’ve gotten doesn’t work well on streaming, as Warner is finding out. Spending time and money on a major network would’ve put them behind, and scared all their competitors early. By not weighing themselves down, they were able to build their massive library. Netflix tried hard to get the LotR rig…
> The Swedish video game and media company Embracer Group has purchased the rights to “Lord of the Rings,” “The Hobbit” and other properties from the Saul Zaentz Co. The terms of the details were not disclosed, but CNBC reports that “the purchase was a part of six acquisitions,” totaling $572.8 million. [1]
> Details picked up by the Daily Mail show that Netflix is paying £370 million (about $502 million) for the rights to Dahl's entire catalog. [2]
> At a budget of $200 million, Red Notice is Netflix's most expensive original film to date. [3]
Netflix chose poorly.
[1] https://www.thestreet.com/investing/who-owns-the-lord-of-the...
[2] https://www.polygon.com/22876640/netflix-roald-dahl-movies-a...
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#25I feel bad for Netflix. They pioneered this market segment and now it reached saturation, people are getting tired of streaming fragmentation, their content took a turn for the worse and we are slowly and surely marching towards the next "Netflix of Streaming Services", which is basically Cable over IP. I wonder of Netflix could have done anything to keep being so far ahead and offer content from so many other compan…
> I wonder of Netflix could have done anything to keep being so far ahead and offer content from so many other companies, or was it always doomed to last just a few years before everyone and their grandma started a streaming service. It was always doomed. There's only so far you can go with streaming services from a tech POV. Once you have a system that's fairly reliable at delivering the content, it's the content th…
Netflix saw that, pivoted to become a studio, and has had very mixed success at that. But that's not the point: What was magical about Netflix was the depth of it's backlog and that it had so much from all over. They were an aggregator, they never had "everything" but they had so damn much that something you wanted to watch but never got around to always popped up.
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#26The more fragmented the streaming services get, the more attractive piracy becomes.
Personally, I'd prefer frictionless fragmentation to centralization. I'm never going to subscribe to Paramount+ (or Whatever+) to see one or two shows I'm interested in, but I'd gladly pay $3-5 to stream a season of Star Trek: Discovery . If there's also a Paramount+ bundle that includes all of their original and licensed content, that's fine too.
Frictionless fragmentation would be that services adhere to some standard API and that viewing tools (we optionally build ourselves) can simply sign in to an arbitrary list of services. If that were possible, then yes.
For many streaming service, I can't even figure out if the support Linux (e.g. HBO does not explicitly state I can use their service with a browser on Linux). So, it makes no sense to sign up even if I thought it was worth the money.
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#27The more fragmented the streaming services get, the more attractive piracy becomes.
Personally, I'd prefer frictionless fragmentation to centralization. I'm never going to subscribe to Paramount+ (or Whatever+) to see one or two shows I'm interested in, but I'd gladly pay $3-5 to stream a season of Star Trek: Discovery . If there's also a Paramount+ bundle that includes all of their original and licensed content, that's fine too.
I think you can do this on Amazon, but you have to "buy" the season. I did try this with one or two shows. But the price point is a little high considering I usually only watch once.
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#28Well isn't that a shame.
Next year: streaming services are being aquired to kill competition, or pushed into bankruptcy!
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#29The more fragmented the streaming services get, the more attractive piracy becomes.
Then when enough business is lost to pirating company's will start pushing for pointless laws to stop pirating because as we all know pirating is purely the result of people not wanting to pay and has not to do with the free thing providing better quality and greater convenience. Eventually some brilliant person will come up the idea of not making the consumers life difficult and the whole cycle will start again.
> as we all know pirating is purely the result of people not wanting to pay and has not to do with the free thing providing better quality and greater convenience.
Speak for yourself. What about those in locations where access to various forms of media is prohibited? Or those who are in poverty/in impoverished areas?
Because they're unable to pay to access media forms they should be prevented from accessing them?
Has youtube killed Spotify's business? How about piratebay? Is Hollywood in shambles? P2p media sharing has been around forever and is still conveniently available, yet these industries persist and rake in. They've had little impact to the bottomlines of these industries and will likely continue to have little impact.
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#30Well isn't that a shame. Next year: streaming services are being aquired to kill competition, or pushed into bankruptcy!
> Next year: streaming services are being aquired to kill competition,
That’s been happening already (e.g., Discovery/Warner)