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Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Re: Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by Eridrus »

PretzelPirate wrote: post #42
reitanqild wrote: post #20

I'm happy to pay Spotify a monthly fee. It is more than I ever spent on music before though (not a pirate, just didn't buy much music.) Same with netflix. I'll not be happy with paying monthly for n different channels to watch a film. I want to pay. But either one service with all I need like Spotify or paying for the stiff I actually watch.

I'm happy to pay extra for content from Disney or HBO, but I just want a consistent user experience. I was a single app that will let me access all of this content.

Interestingly HBO just did this: They put HGO Go into Hulu.

$15/month is still a lot though.

Re: Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by pvg »

hosh wrote: post #25

I remember reading a long article about a tech company built from the sporting world that has major technical chops when it comes to streaming digital media. Was that BAMtech?

More likely its progenitor, MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM). They often get that weird 'giant company you've never heard of' coverage, well past the point after many people have heard of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB_Advanced_Media

Re: Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by chrismanfrank »

PretzelPirate wrote: post #42
reitanqild wrote: post #20

I'm happy to pay Spotify a monthly fee. It is more than I ever spent on music before though (not a pirate, just didn't buy much music.) Same with netflix. I'll not be happy with paying monthly for n different channels to watch a film. I want to pay. But either one service with all I need like Spotify or paying for the stiff I actually watch.

I'm happy to pay extra for content from Disney or HBO, but I just want a consistent user experience. I was a single app that will let me access all of this content.

I just subscribed to HBO through Amazon for this reason. It's really great. Amazon user experience and streaming capabilities seem better than HBO. But HBO is the only place you can get Game of Thrones. Win-win :)

Re: Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by brightball »

PretzelPirate wrote: post #42
reitanqild wrote: post #20

I'm happy to pay Spotify a monthly fee. It is more than I ever spent on music before though (not a pirate, just didn't buy much music.) Same with netflix. I'll not be happy with paying monthly for n different channels to watch a film. I want to pay. But either one service with all I need like Spotify or paying for the stiff I actually watch.

I'm happy to pay extra for content from Disney or HBO, but I just want a consistent user experience. I was a single app that will let me access all of this content.

For the most part, that has been TiVo for the last 4-5 years.

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Post by usrusr »

Does Disney have more off-brand subsidies like ESPN and Pixar?

Without more of that, Disney's amazing brand recognition could turn into a problem for them: because everybody thinks that they know exactly what to expect when they hear "Disney", a Disney-only subscription might feel much more like a monoculuture than one Amazon-only or Netflix-only (assuming those two even go that far towards exclusivity, which might be inevitable if more licensed content leaves)

Re: Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by reitanqild »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #27
reitanqild wrote: post #20

I'm happy to pay Spotify a monthly fee. It is more than I ever spent on music before though (not a pirate, just didn't buy much music.) Same with netflix. I'll not be happy with paying monthly for n different channels to watch a film. I want to pay. But either one service with all I need like Spotify or paying for the stiff I actually watch.

This used to be a thing. It was when you paid $60-120 a month for your cable TV package. Did you really think everyone was gonna let you cut that down to $10 a month?

It is still more than they would get from many of us any other way. Before Spotify I'll buy less than a cd every second or third month maybe.

Now I'd probably just stop watching movies. Others will start pirating again.

Re: Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by alkonaut »

Anatidae wrote: post #30

If every studio thinks I'm going to pay them $10+ a month to stream their content, they are going to be very mistaken. I can't imagine that a lot of people want to spend the collective hundreds of dollars to sign up for all the streaming services. It's almost asking to drive people to torrents. Now, if Disney does something like $30/year or something really affordable - sure. I might do that on a whim. I guess it's a…

This. And I also don't want to switch between various different and poorly designed UI's to navigate from the content of one provider to that of another. This problem needs to be solved, fast. We were promised a steaming tv revolution but I enjoy flipping channels and keeping track of broadcast times more than switching apps.

Re: Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by AlexC04 »

faragon wrote: post #21
dbmikus wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netflix is so cheap compared to cable, though. I wouldn't mind paying for a few streaming bundles as long as the coverage is wide enough. I don't know if the industry will move towards consolidation like we've seen in music streaming services, but if prices stay similar to cable but I can watch whatever I want whenever I want, I'd consider that a win. EDIT: my point doesn't refute that piracy will continue, just that…

Amazon Prime Video is even cheaper. If Amazon manages to increase content while leveraging costs because of their scale and vertical integration, it could be huge.

I have prime video. It really is such a pain in the butt to watch it though. They lock themselves out of chrome cast, Kodi, basically everything I currently use to stream to my TV.

I'm really frustrated with it and don't feel like I'm getting value.

Re: Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by 15charlimit »

"They" are going to eventually realize that one of the primary draws and reasons for the early success of Netflix was the single-source-access to (at the time) pretty much everything.

Nobody wants to maintain a dozen different accounts with a dozen different services who have a dozen different content catalogs with a dozen different payments and have to bounce between them all to find what they want to watch.

It's much easier to just pirate or pick a different form of entertainment at that point.

Re: Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by rwc »

PretzelPirate wrote: post #42
reitanqild wrote: post #20

I'm happy to pay Spotify a monthly fee. It is more than I ever spent on music before though (not a pirate, just didn't buy much music.) Same with netflix. I'll not be happy with paying monthly for n different channels to watch a film. I want to pay. But either one service with all I need like Spotify or paying for the stiff I actually watch.

I'm happy to pay extra for content from Disney or HBO, but I just want a consistent user experience. I was a single app that will let me access all of this content.

That's the concept behind the "TV" app on Apple TV/iOS.
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