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Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by Mistletoe »

Retric wrote: post #192
mrandish wrote: post #189

There was a time fairly early in Netflix's streaming era when all the studios were just dumping their old back catalogs on Netflix to get some revenue from 'dead content' that I thought "Wow, someday soon pretty much all the old content will just be available on a central streaming service. The future will be good." Then the stock market started inflating the value of streamers because of ARR projections and studios…

Most things are on Amazon if you’re willing to pay for them individually. It’s more buffet style streaming services that splintered. Per movie may seem expensive, but at the low end of hours per month watch time streaming services are a bad deal.

I think I would rather eat glass than rent a movie on Amazon Prime for $3.99. I'm so sick of those polluting the search on there.

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by canucker2016 »

akovaski wrote: post #35
jerf wrote: post #23

For your searching convenience, they do seem to have all their full movies in a playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Y4rNBCLaU&list=PL7Eup7JXSc... That will pop up to The 11th Hour but the playlist has them all.

A link to just the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Eup7JXScZyvRftA2Q5h... From IMDb: The 11th Hour (2007, Documentary, 7.2) The Wind and the Lion (1975, Adventure Epic, 6.8) Mr. Nice Guy (1997, Martial Arts Dark Comedy, 6.2) City Heat (1984, Buddy Cop, 5.5) Michael Collins (1996, Docudrama, 7.1) The Adventures Of Pluto Nash (2002, Space Sci-Fi Comedy, 3.9) Chaos Theory (2007, Comedy Drama Romance,…

AVClub on City Heat:

  "City Heat has the misfortune to peak in its first five minutes. "

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by Epa095 »

TuringNYC wrote: post #203
SteveNuts wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume that bandwidth is by far the biggest cost for running your own streaming service, so letting Google take that hit makes a lot of sense.

>> I assume that bandwidth is by far the biggest cost for running your own streaming service, so letting Google take that hit makes a lot of sense. Judging from the clunky, buggy, nonsensical experiences on 2nd tier streaming services (i.e., everything except Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Disney+, Max), I'd say the biggest cost is probably hiring a decent Engineering+Product+Test team. There are complexities here,…

Some years ago I worked for a company creating streaming platforms for media companies, aka the clunky shit you complain about:-) My experience the clunkyness comes primarily from two things.

1: Every customer wants their own twist. It is not enough to create an awesome video player app and reskin it, no they all want to be special.

2: Getting the last 5% takes twice as much work as the first 95%. Probably even more.

It's quite doable for 'normal' engineers to make a steaming platform. You need to get the video files out there on some CDN, you need some service for the DRM keys (which needs to scale, and handle the different access packages), and you probably want some history and profile stuff. Easy enough. But for the best experience you want every video to start playing in less than a second. That means getting those starting video segments as close as possible to the customer, it means optimizing that DRM key delivery, and optimizing the player so it just gets that video pushed to the screen ASAP.

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by vanderZwan »

canucker2016 wrote: post #372
akovaski wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A link to just the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Eup7JXScZyvRftA2Q5h... From IMDb: The 11th Hour (2007, Documentary, 7.2) The Wind and the Lion (1975, Adventure Epic, 6.8) Mr. Nice Guy (1997, Martial Arts Dark Comedy, 6.2) City Heat (1984, Buddy Cop, 5.5) Michael Collins (1996, Docudrama, 7.1) The Adventures Of Pluto Nash (2002, Space Sci-Fi Comedy, 3.9) Chaos Theory (2007, Comedy Drama Romance,…

AVClub on City Heat: "City Heat has the misfortune to peak in its first five minutes. "

That didn't stop Up (the Pixar film) from being a masterpiece, so that's hardly an excuse /j

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by iancmceachern »

GauntletWizard wrote: post #368
iancmceachern wrote: post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was putting them up in good faith as a public service. Yes, they did. But when I pointed out that they didn't in fact own the copyright they highlighted this detail about the youtube terms if service, so I still had to take the video down, not because it violated copyright, but because it violated the YouTube terms of service.

Which part of the Youtube terms of service did it violate?

I dont know, here is their contact info:

https://stock.periscopefilm.com/contact-stock/

As I said, super unpleasant folks.

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Post by interludead »

lxgr wrote: post #30

Old movies have been available on various "free ad-supported streaming television" for a while now, so I'm actually more surprised it took copyright holders that long to realize that Youtube also shows ads and doesn't require people to install some wonky app that might or might not be available for their platform. Of course, region-specific copyright deals are incredibly complex etc. etc., so I could imagine it was j…

But they're doing it in such an unceremonious way... No real curation, no promotion, just an unorganized content dump.

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Post by interludead »

mrandish wrote: post #189

There was a time fairly early in Netflix's streaming era when all the studios were just dumping their old back catalogs on Netflix to get some revenue from 'dead content' that I thought "Wow, someday soon pretty much all the old content will just be available on a central streaming service. The future will be good." Then the stock market started inflating the value of streamers because of ARR projections and studios…

Yep, we really went from "everything will be available in one place!" to "good luck remembering which service has what, if it's even still there"

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by interludead »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #122

Anything from before the 1980s should just be on YouTube, its easy cash for them on films that are sitting idle otherwise. Anything they aren't licensing to anyone anywhere should just be on YouTube. Or any sort of streaming platform that has sane ads, and anyone can see. It is really sad to me there's no genuine YouTube competitor.

But I think that the real shame is that there's no true YouTube competitor for ad-supported streaming

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by interludead »

tantalor wrote: post #6

Oh nice they got The Science of Sleep (2006) on here, great film with Gael García Bernal by Michel Gondry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAyg_ENvHzc

I like that this article made us reminisce (or for some, discover) old and somewhat forgotten films.
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