The aspect of Rdio which most appeals to me is their subscription model. Vdio doens't have that, so I'll stick with the Appleverse thankyouverymuch. Has better integration into my life.
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I'm not saying it's a perfect model, but the alternative is having to pay $100/month for a cable subscription to watch garbage you don't want to see, or $10+ to see it in a dirty movie theater, or $15 to "buy" a movie that was $15 in the 90's for a physical DVD. Even if there are 5 Netflixes competing against each other I would rather pay 5 x $7.99 a month to watch content I actually find relevant than pay for junk I…
In that scenario most of the content you are paying for multiple times. Or you can look at it as the redundant content is free and you're paying $7.99/month for House of Cards. Wouldn't it be better if prices for the content you want were more reasonable? Like, if you could buy a season of House of Cards for $7. And buy an old movie for $0.25?
Like, if you could buy a season of House of Cards for $7
I'd like to buy a new porsche for $10k but that's not happening either.
Most of Netflix's shows cost over $4M an episode[1]. Taking that as a base you've got a cost of $48M a season (these are production costs not total cost, at $7 a season you need 7M subscribers just to break even ). Considering most shows have less then 4M viewers a night your pricing model pretty much is just throwing money away.
1. http://www.businessinsider.com/netflixs-cost-for-house-of-ca...
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its pretty hard to beat Spotify unless you have some specific taste in music they dont cover well. But overall I have a hard time seing a better service than theirs. It just works, is fast and has a large db of content.
I've tried both and have stuck with Rdio. The social aspect is superior. I love being able to see playlists and recommendations from random people beyond my Facebook friends. Spotify's desktop app is definitely faster, though I find Rdio to be better designed.
Completely agree. The UX of Rdio is far superior, IMHO.
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#64I love that there's motion in this industry, but I don't have any reason to use this instead of iTunes via Apple TV. And I really want to, because I love Rdio.
But as others have said in this thread, the main seller for Rdio is that I pay a set price every month and I can listen to anything I want.
I would gladly pay upwards of $10-20/month for full access to more TV shows than Netflix gives me. And maybe a movie rental or two per month.
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#65The aspect of Rdio which most appeals to me is their subscription model. Vdio doens't have that, so I'll stick with the Appleverse thankyouverymuch. Has better integration into my life.
My thoughts exactly—minus the Appleverse, which to me, is still not good enough.
Not Good Enough—I want a subscription to all TV shows, delivered to my television when they air or after, on-demand, at any price. I will pay over $100 per month for this subscription, if it's a good user experience.
No one does this yet. Pirating is not a cheaper alternative, it is a higher quality alternative. People are still paying to pirate television, not because it's cheaper than cable, but because it is far better than cable.
Come on networks! Get with it. People want this.
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#66"only available [...] in the US and UK" Can anybody think of any geo-tarded service that successfully rolled out in other countries later? Because as some not in the "chosen countries" I always feel that those services either a) never arrive, b) get beaten to the punch by local competitors or c) have to spend a shitload of money to conquer that market, sometimes by buying the aforementioned competitors. Also, unless…
> Can anybody think of any geo-tarded service that successfully rolled out in other countries later? Rdio, iTunes Music Store, iTunes Movie/TV Store, Netflix, Amazon's digital services, etc were all unavailable in Canada on launch and successfully rolled out later on.
Canada gets serviced fast compared to the rest of the world.
In (most of) Europe, Rdio has little impact. Same goes for iTunes video. Netflix and Amazon digital are still missing.
iTunes Music is the only exception, but only because of the full weight of Apple and the tie-in with Apple's playback devices.
Canadian bitching about US services being unavailable is a bit of joke if you consider the rest of us are still waiting for Netflix for over a decade. There aren't even any decent alternatives because the copyright mafia makes it impossible.
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#67I have a hard time justifying TV or Movie prices since I am going to watch once or twice VS music that I will listen to forever. Interestingly enough they offer plenty of music services to stream audio and very few for video where (at least for me) it would make far more sense as I am only going to watch once and I don't care much about owning the rights to it.
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#68Re profile visibility, I think they need to separate Rdio and Vdio. I might want to share the music I listen to, but not the movies I watch. Currently you can set both public, or both private, but not a mix.
Even if you set it "private", the opt-in seems a little "scary". They seem to want you to consent repeatedly that they're not violating the Video Privacy Protection Act[1] regardless of what they do?
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
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#69I hope this means Rdio is going to be a more sustainable long-term business, and not that Rdio is pivoting away from music; Rdio seems to be the best of a shaky lot when it comes to subscription music services, and I'd hate for it to get worse.
Its pretty hard to beat Spotify unless you have some specific taste in music they dont cover well. But overall I have a hard time seing a better service than theirs. It just works, is fast and has a large db of content.
Spotify uses peer-to-peer (http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/O...) which makes it bad UX for me.
I've been using Mog for a while, but had I run into Rdio first, I might have picked them instead.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
In that scenario most of the content you are paying for multiple times. Or you can look at it as the redundant content is free and you're paying $7.99/month for House of Cards. Wouldn't it be better if prices for the content you want were more reasonable? Like, if you could buy a season of House of Cards for $7. And buy an old movie for $0.25?
Like, if you could buy a season of House of Cards for $7 I'd like to buy a new porsche for $10k but that's not happening either. Most of Netflix's shows cost over $4M an episode[1]. Taking that as a base you've got a cost of $48M a season (these are production costs not total cost, at $7 a season you need 7M subscribers just to break even ). Considering most shows have less then 4M viewers a night your pricing model…
If it were to be used, how would advertising factor into this? Not saying $7/season is viable but could a low price be buffered out by advertiser sponsorship?