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Re: Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

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Post by scarface74 »

coldtea wrote: post #70
scarface74 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seeing the box office results of Disney’s movies, your anecdotal opinion doesn’t jibe with the overall market. Besides, there will also be Disney original MCU and Star Wars TV series.

> Seeing the box office results of Disney’s movies, your anecdotal opinion doesn’t jibe with the overall market. Yes, but the overall market also doesn't jibe with taste, as Zappa would say...

By definition, if people are collectively, willingly giving Disney billions of dollars a year for a Marvel and Star Wars movies, the market is jibing where it matters.

Re: Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

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Post by TeMPOraL »

scarface74 wrote: post #74
hendersoon wrote: post #34

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You don't understand how low-friction piracy is these days. Only techies deal with automation and Plex. Most people just buy a "fully loaded" android box which lists thumbnails for all the latest movies and TV shows on various file storage sites. They select a thumbnail and the movie plays. Nothing local at all, all streamed.

Which again doesn’t help when so much video streaming is done on mobile devices....

There's plenty of streaming sites, and since web browsers work so well on mobile devices nowadays...

Re: Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

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Post by TeMPOraL »

adrianN wrote: post #90
mc32 wrote: post #57

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I agree. There is definitely a market for a streaming bundling service where you pay for a bundle and get subscribed to multiple services for some monthly fee which would be at a great discount to subscribing separately to each service.

You could call it "TV over Wires" or something like that.

Yeah, then comes the inevitable attempt at squeezing more money from people through aggressive market segmentation, and we're back to square one, except now you can reorder programming in time without using a VCR.

Re: Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

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Post by roland35 »

jfim wrote: post #44
eitland wrote: post #14

No surprise. Even we (HN) predicted this the moment the first content company withdrew their content from Netflix. Two reasons: 1. People only have so much money. 2. When people compare it to what they used to payit seems unfair. People complain when gas prices increases by a few percent, no wonder they complain when they suddenly have to pay twice or even three times for the same content they used to pay one low mon…

Pay per view has the drawback of requiring too many decisions, leading to decision fatigue. Subscribing to a service for $20/mo is a one time decision, whereas figuring out if the show you're about to watch is worth $0.30 gets tiring really quickly. Monthly credits works a bit better, but the all you can eat model completely avoids this.

That is a good point, I have a harder time deciding if I want to spend $3-4 to rent a movie on Amazon than just pulling up Netflix and browsing around! Plus I don't feel like I wasted money if I don't enjoy a movie and stop watching (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs sorry!).

On the other hand I don't mind buying music, since I basically know the entire song ahead of time, and I don't think I ever buy more than $10 worth of music a month.

Re: Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

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Post by TeMPOraL »

scarface74 wrote: post #91
coldtea wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Seeing the box office results of Disney’s movies, your anecdotal opinion doesn’t jibe with the overall market. Yes, but the overall market also doesn't jibe with taste, as Zappa would say...

By definition, if people are collectively, willingly giving Disney billions of dollars a year for a Marvel and Star Wars movies, the market is jibing where it matters.

Still, and circling back to the main point - a movie or two per year plus a single TV show and some occasional filler content is not by itself worth keeping a service subscription at the current prices.

Re: Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

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Post by matwood »

coldtea wrote: post #69
mcv wrote: post #37

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Although I'd prefer to have everything on Netflix, I'm definitely going to get Disney+. Not a fan of Disney the corporation, but if Disney+ contains everything Star Wars, everything Marvel, everything from Jim Henson, and everything from all their other properties, there's no way I'm going to pay for easy access to that. We don't even watch regular TV anymore at my home. It's either Netflix or Youtube.

There's just so many Star Wars movies, and so many Marvel movies, and while I've seen most in theaters, they are basically juvenile blockbuster cookie cutter crap. The first 3 star wars films where important for their era, but most of the later ones are just forgettable sci-fi (for non-discerning fans). Not to mention letting down parts of the canon (e.g. the Solo movie, or "Kylo Ren", a hipster/teenage goth abominat…

> There's just so many Star Wars movies, and so many Marvel movies, and while I've seen most in theaters, they are basically juvenile blockbuster cookie cutter crap.

There are at least a few of us out there who think the same as you. The one difference is I haven't watched one in the theater in years.

Re: Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

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Post by scarface74 »

coldtea wrote: post #69
mcv wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although I'd prefer to have everything on Netflix, I'm definitely going to get Disney+. Not a fan of Disney the corporation, but if Disney+ contains everything Star Wars, everything Marvel, everything from Jim Henson, and everything from all their other properties, there's no way I'm going to pay for easy access to that. We don't even watch regular TV anymore at my home. It's either Netflix or Youtube.

There's just so many Star Wars movies, and so many Marvel movies, and while I've seen most in theaters, they are basically juvenile blockbuster cookie cutter crap. The first 3 star wars films where important for their era, but most of the later ones are just forgettable sci-fi (for non-discerning fans). Not to mention letting down parts of the canon (e.g. the Solo movie, or "Kylo Ren", a hipster/teenage goth abominat…

Recent box office history is littered with studios losing money on “original” stories.
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