Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
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Re: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
#2This could be an optimal moment for a Netflix competitor to step in given Netflix's recent issues.
Vdio will probably have the same content licensing and windowing issues. Not an easy hurdle to overcome.
Re: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
#3Hopefully this will do a lot better than their last attempt at video, joost, which turned out to be a complete failure.
Re: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
#4What a horrible name, trying to tell someone about the site would prove to be difficult.
Re: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
#5What a horrible name, trying to tell someone about the site would prove to be difficult.
I do think that's a valid concern. Whenever I recommend Rdio to people, I'm never sure how to say it. I usually say "R D O" but sometimes I think maybe it's "radio" or "Erdio".
Re: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
#6This could be an optimal moment for a Netflix competitor to step in given Netflix's recent issues. Vdio will probably have the same content licensing and windowing issues. Not an easy hurdle to overcome.
If MSFT are backing them they $=infinity money to buy content.
MSFT is a little scared that Apple and Google will own all online content.
If MSFT can persuade Hollywood that Google is an evil monopolist and they are better helping a young MSFT upstart then they may get more content more easily.
Re: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
#7This could be an optimal moment for a Netflix competitor to step in given Netflix's recent issues. Vdio will probably have the same content licensing and windowing issues. Not an easy hurdle to overcome.
If MSFT are backing them they $=infinity money to buy content. MSFT is a little scared that Apple and Google will own all online content. If MSFT can persuade Hollywood that Google is an evil monopolist and they are better helping a young MSFT upstart then they may get more content more easily.
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Re: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
#8This could be an optimal moment for a Netflix competitor to step in given Netflix's recent issues. Vdio will probably have the same content licensing and windowing issues. Not an easy hurdle to overcome.
If MSFT are backing them they $=infinity money to buy content. MSFT is a little scared that Apple and Google will own all online content. If MSFT can persuade Hollywood that Google is an evil monopolist and they are better helping a young MSFT upstart then they may get more content more easily.
i'm not sure why you would think that Microsoft is backing them.
Re: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
#9As long as it can help beat the content providers more quickly into their only ultimately tenable position (all content available online, from one service or another), I'm all for it.
To be honest, I don't even care about price that much at this point in history. The fact that there are lots of movies and shows (Game of Thrones, anyone?) that are not digitally available at all is absurd.
Having more competing VOD services negotiating with providers can only make things better.
Re: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
#10What a horrible name, trying to tell someone about the site would prove to be difficult.
The first thing I thought was Venereal Disease I/O.