back to sailing the seas :shrug:
Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
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#32Dear Amazon, the Prime menu is fairly awful - especially trying to find a way back to a previously watched series.
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#33The real question here is where players like SKY in the UK eventually go for content, I pay €40 a month for Skys satellite service and I am on the edge of cancelling it, I have Netflix/Disney/Prime for a combined approx €30 a month, recently when watching live TV I spent 40 minutes channel hopping and watched nothing, most channels are now reality show filler junk, the occasional gem in there is looking less and less…
I think SKY is well prepared for this. With their NowTV service you can get the movies/entertainment/sports packages all separately. You can even buy the sports package for a day or a weekend. They also have quite a lot of exclusive content through SKY Atlantic + their sports offerings.
On top of that they are a major Broadband provider. If they started losing full SKY TV subscriptions I think their other business areas will make up for it. I would never get SKY TV...but I've paid for their broadband + pay £30 a month for sports via NowTV.
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#34This makes it very likely that the beloved Stargate franchise will return as an Amazon Prime exclusive franchise, which will be great news for those of us like myself with appetite for 60+ more seasons of that show (after the 17 seasons that have already been made). I watched the sci-fi show "The Expanse" on Amazon Prime Video. Season 4 (the one made by Amazon Prime Video) felt like it had a tenth of the budget compa…
I started watching SG1 again (I saw it incomplete as a kid). It’s incredibly good. It pushes rationalism and feminism in a sane way that I’m not sure would happen in today’s environment. It’s incredibly rich in historical references and concepts. It’s rarely dumb and often preempts cliches. It’s still worth watching imho (and is much less known that Star Trek in US).
Just finished doing that myself and wholeheartedly agree. I came here to say SG-A does a great job as well.
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#35This makes it very likely that the beloved Stargate franchise will return as an Amazon Prime exclusive franchise, which will be great news for those of us like myself with appetite for 60+ more seasons of that show (after the 17 seasons that have already been made). I watched the sci-fi show "The Expanse" on Amazon Prime Video. Season 4 (the one made by Amazon Prime Video) felt like it had a tenth of the budget compa…
If it makes you feel better the fourth book of The Expanse is the most boring in my opinion and the show stuck to the plot for the most part throughout. I still enjoyed both the book and the fourth season but the action and production really picks back up in the fifth season.
EDIT: VAGUE REFERENCES TO SPOILERS BELOW
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#36If I had to pick a single politically uniting issue, breaking up Amazon and big tech would be it. Why has this not happened yet? Is the out of power party afraid the in power party will get credit? (This has been discussed when both parties were in power) If the government can't get something with this kind of support done, I fear the road we are headed down .
They are close to hitting a critical point in terms of political and economic power where they literally will no longer be able to be stopped. We will have no recourse but to replace our government with Amazon. It will be like Buy n Large in Wall-e.
Amazon builds and operates internet-disconnected datacenters, on-prem in Langley, for the CIA. You're not getting rid of the CIA's drone video cluster sysadmins.
They also operate several internet-connected regions (GovCloud) that have the special racist hiring policies required to fulfill US govt hosting regulations.
That ship has probably already sailed.
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#37So what we're seeing is a repeat of the film industry from 1930's-1950's. You want to see a Paramount movie, you must go to a Paramount theater. Today you want to watch an Apple show you must go to Apple's VOD. We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution. Better stuff gets made in this kind of ecosystem.
Call your legislators!
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#38So what we're seeing is a repeat of the film industry from 1930's-1950's. You want to see a Paramount movie, you must go to a Paramount theater. Today you want to watch an Apple show you must go to Apple's VOD. We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution. Better stuff gets made in this kind of ecosystem.
This will be my prediction: the usage of piracy to consume this type of content will increase.
And they will blame PLATFORM X (or just the ol'piratebay) for the losses of revenue, when in reality it's just a matter of people not being able to access content because everything has a paywall gate.
It's like they want to bring cable TV back to the internet, and you had massive bills just for channels subscriptions.
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#39The real question here is where players like SKY in the UK eventually go for content, I pay €40 a month for Skys satellite service and I am on the edge of cancelling it, I have Netflix/Disney/Prime for a combined approx €30 a month, recently when watching live TV I spent 40 minutes channel hopping and watched nothing, most channels are now reality show filler junk, the occasional gem in there is looking less and less…
The problem in most countries I've lived is that there is a market capture with the whole 'triple play' trap.
I only really need a fast internet connection but I can only get that if I bundle it with TV + Phone. Regardless of how much of a 'cable-cutter' I am, it is only financially worth getting internet-only, if I go for lower speeds.
Definitely something I thing the EU competition/anti-trust teams should be looking into.
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#40The only thing I can think of is that Stargate might finally have a change to reappear
20 years after Atlantis lands in San Francisco the camera flys over the now moon-based city. We see puddle jumpers zooming to and fro. A Daedalus class ship exits hyperspace from some mission far away. The camera fades to the control room. A ragged Dr Jackson with a headset is arguing with someone. The room is abuzz with many others doing the same. This is the moment the audience first can see the logo on his shirt.…
Amazon Fan Fiction: Yet another ancient religious rite to puzzle far-future archeologists.