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So all that stuff they were saying about how it was financially impossible to do this was just PR fabrication? I never would have suspected.
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The aggregate of all these fees (plus Netflix, Amazon, etc) will likely approach or exceed the cost of a typical cable subscription.
And I'm okay with that. Having transparent pricing means that I am voting with my dollars for the content I care about. With a cable subscription, most of your dollars just go to Disney and not the content producers whose content you are personally consuming.
Now this just needs to happen with other TV networks. For example, I'd love to pay AMC Networks[0], A&E Networks[1], or NBC Universal[2] a nominal monthly fee to access their catalogs on-demand. While it's true that these networks stream some of their current shows online, the players and streaming experience is usually very terrible. That's how I want to the future to be: everything is like Netflix or HBO-sans-cable…
The aggregate of all these fees (plus Netflix, Amazon, etc) will likely approach or exceed the cost of a typical cable subscription.
Also, having all the video in a choose-it-myself format avoids droning out in front of the TV for hours just watching commercials and reruns. And getting it over an IP network means a lot. Hello logging! Hello filtering per MAC around homework time!
Glad to hear it. For the time being, for anyone with Amazon Prime, the HBO collection isn't bad: http://www.amazon.com/b?node=9097393011 It's not nearly as complete or up-to-date as HBO go of course, but it has lot of the most popular shows. We have HBO go and actually use Amazon prime to watch HBO shows since Comcast has yet to support logging into HBO go on PS3.
Seems like they're finally embracing the philosophy to fighting piracy from Kim Dotcom: How to stop piracy: 1. Create great content 2. Make it easy to buy 3. Same day global release 4. Works on any device 5. Fair price
Did you see something asserting point 4?
What about Canada? I'd subscribe in a second as we too, are cord cutters up here.
I tried to find a legal download of Bladerunner the other day, and got the following:
1) Amazon.com geofenced it
2) Google Play won't let me download it (I have "bought" movies on Google Play before, but like any digital play-for-now service they will eventually become unavailable to me: I will no longer buy digital content I can't rip to an open format, because temporary proprietary access is not what I'm looking for.)
3) iTunes doesn't have it
4) Amazon.ca doesn't do digital downloads of films, near as I can tell. They certainly didn't have the one I was looking for.
All I want to be able to do is pay for a legal digital copy of a film, and I can't. I can buy a piece of plastic with the bits burned into it that I have no device to play, but that's a ridiculous waste.
I didn't torrent the film... I just ended up saying, "Screw it. No sale for me."
Business 101: make it easy for customers to give you money.
This is something that digital streaming companies (other than Netflix) have not mastered.
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I wonder how much money they are making selling their content to foreign networks vs. the amount they could make opening their online service up globally. I am assuming that if they did open it up globally, they would not be able to sell the shows for as much money to other networks.
I understand your comment, and you are probably right. I like to watch movies/tv shows in their original language, so not many would be open to pay to watch english only shows... I don't know.
That said, subtitling from English is fairly cheap, especially at the current level of quality, so there's no reason to avoid it.
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And I'm okay with that. Having transparent pricing means that I am voting with my dollars for the content I care about. With a cable subscription, most of your dollars just go to Disney and not the content producers whose content you are personally consuming.
How are Netflix, Prime, and even HBO different? You pay them for access to all of the content they decide to carry. I don't see how Netflix is "a la carte."
Now this just needs to happen with other TV networks. For example, I'd love to pay AMC Networks[0], A&E Networks[1], or NBC Universal[2] a nominal monthly fee to access their catalogs on-demand. While it's true that these networks stream some of their current shows online, the players and streaming experience is usually very terrible. That's how I want to the future to be: everything is like Netflix or HBO-sans-cable…
http://www.amazon.com/Greetings-Set-Season-5/dp/B00NI1VFYI/r...
Good way to watch the one or two shows you want from some of these networks. Although its not an all access plan to every show you can atleast watch the latest.
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Maybe it won't work on your Android-powered toaster, but the devices they currently support are fairly comprehensive: http://www.hbogo.com/#devices/
What is missing for me is Apple TV, but I suppose that cuts too deep into HBO's income.