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Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by dang »

jodrellblank wrote: post #626

Off topic, but I am boggled that Larry Ellison came back to “richest man in the world” this year. For all the enormous Reach of Facebook adverts, Apple, Microsoft breadth of products, Tesla and SpaceX and Twitter, Amazon’s massive cloud dominance, the AI boom for nVidia… Oracle?! “ On September 10, 2025, Ellison was briefly the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$393 billion. In June 202…

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46161166.

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

popalchemist wrote: post #967
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no “monopoly” on either content distribution or creation. Amazon and Apple are both trillion dollar companies that have streaming services. Then there is Disney, Comcast (Peacock), Paramount, STARZ (standalone company), and AMC

There are only 4 major streaming services (Netflix, Prime, HBO Max, and Hulu), and only 5 major film studios, of which WB is one and it represents on its own 13% of the theatrical market. The combination of Netflix + WB + HBOMax likely represents well more than 25% of the entire market (when you combine streaming and theatrical).

Amazon and Apple are both trillion dollar companies who have made forays into theatrical release. They both spend billions on content.

Besides 75% of US households have Amazon Prime and therefore have access to Amazon Prime Video.

More time is spent on YouTube than any of the streaming services you named.

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by famouswaffles »

popalchemist wrote: post #967
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no “monopoly” on either content distribution or creation. Amazon and Apple are both trillion dollar companies that have streaming services. Then there is Disney, Comcast (Peacock), Paramount, STARZ (standalone company), and AMC

There are only 4 major streaming services (Netflix, Prime, HBO Max, and Hulu), and only 5 major film studios, of which WB is one and it represents on its own 13% of the theatrical market. The combination of Netflix + WB + HBOMax likely represents well more than 25% of the entire market (when you combine streaming and theatrical).

Disney Plus is the 2nd biggest Streaming Service around in terms of subscribers, revenue and income.

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by exographicskip »

phartenfeller wrote: post #288
NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>it frequently produces mediocre or worse content. Will the same happen for Warner? HBO hasn't produced good content in years at this point. Since before the last season or two of Game of Thrones, I should think. The other brands in Warner didn't even really have that much prestige.

It is probably not just a Netflix issue. But it is also quite a philosophical question as to who is to blame. The consumers who watch and pay, or the ones who fund the mediocrity. It is definitely sad to see Netflix turn from their early phase, where they valued quality over quantity, and since have reversed that. I just want to see more great art that really sticks, has ambitions and something to tell, and values my…

I used to love Netflix when they started out as DVD mailers. Except when the postal service shattered "Fear and Loathing" pushing its viewing out by days. At one point was renting three movies at a time!

So much better than Blockbuster or Hollywood Video. Was able to see an exponential amount of foreign films, documentaries, and indie films that weren't popular enough to stock in brick and mortar shops. For less money.

Think Netflix jumped the shark well over a decade ago. Remember they had star ratings and good recommendations that weren't heavily monetized outside of keeping you on the platform itself.

Another merger isn't going to roll back the clock.

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Post by wooger »

hamburglar wrote: post #902
cyanydeez wrote: post #597

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing is, HBO _the brand_ is the valuable thing.

And their service is trash, technically speaking. I sometimes sit down with a burrito and pick a show and wonder if I’m going to finish the burrito before the show actually starts playing. It’s embarrassing. There’s a lot to hate about Netflix but they are highly competent when it comes to the perf of the UI and the streaming.

Do netflix still use FreeBSD at some level for their streaming?

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Post by wooger »

swisniewski wrote: post #890
afavour wrote: post #182

Any consolidation like this seems like a negative for consumers. But at least it wasn’t bought by Larry Ellison, as was considered very likely (assuming this merger gets approved, in the current administration you never know). From a Hacker News perspective, I wonder what this means for engineers working on HBO Max. Netflix says they’re keeping the company separate but surely you’d be looking to move them to Netflix…

Generally with large acquisitions, product integration tends to precede infrastructure integration by years to decades. Look at GitHub as an example, they were acquired in 2018, and are just migrating to Azure now after 7 years. Microsoft shipping integrations with GitHub in 20108. This is definitely the case with several Salesforce acquisitions (early product integration, little, no, or much later infrastructure int…

What infra needs to be integrated? They just get the rights, add the movies and shows to the Netflix CDN, turn off whatever b.s. infrastructure Warner were previously operating.

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Post by wooger »

philistine wrote: post #354
afavour wrote: post #182

Any consolidation like this seems like a negative for consumers. But at least it wasn’t bought by Larry Ellison, as was considered very likely (assuming this merger gets approved, in the current administration you never know). From a Hacker News perspective, I wonder what this means for engineers working on HBO Max. Netflix says they’re keeping the company separate but surely you’d be looking to move them to Netflix…

On the pure technical side of their streaming services, Netflix refuses to play ball with platform owners to integrate with services. Netflix on Apple TV has zero conceit for the platform. WB on the other hand is very typical of other streaming services. I wonder what will win out?

I don't see what Netflix's play is here.

If you're in the netflix app, they're happy.

AppleTV integration just effectively adds more homescreen shortcuts taking you back into Netflix e.g. from the AppleTV app 'continue watching' menu.

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Post by wooger »

camillomiller wrote: post #377
afavour wrote: post #182

Any consolidation like this seems like a negative for consumers. But at least it wasn’t bought by Larry Ellison, as was considered very likely (assuming this merger gets approved, in the current administration you never know). From a Hacker News perspective, I wonder what this means for engineers working on HBO Max. Netflix says they’re keeping the company separate but surely you’d be looking to move them to Netflix…

Here in the EU it’s great news if this means HBO contents are coming on Netflix. WBD has had so fare the absolute worse policy for international rights distribution for their shows, with policies varying wildly from season to season.

I fear Sky and whoever else already has long term exclusive deals for HBO shows across the EU will continue to make things a mess.

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Post by wooger »

emsign wrote: post #644
jasonvorhe wrote: post #341

I cancelled all my content subscriptions and I'm back to torrenting. I barely watch anything made my Netflix regardless. I think either Dark or the 3rd season of Stranger Things was the last time. Snyder's SciFi movie wasn't much good either. By now the streaming services are en route to become as terrible as whatever they were set out to replace. Once one of them started heavily advertising their own productions eve…

I also collect discarded physical media, there's still lots of people who want to get rid of their collections for nothing because of "Dude, there's streaming now, duh."

But didn't like 99% of people do a dead stop on buying physical media before 4k became a thing?

If there's something truly rare and hard to find, sure I'll watch it in some low-res format, but when it's online in 4k...

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Post by wooger »

vagab0nd wrote: post #990
jasonvorhe wrote: post #341

I cancelled all my content subscriptions and I'm back to torrenting. I barely watch anything made my Netflix regardless. I think either Dark or the 3rd season of Stranger Things was the last time. Snyder's SciFi movie wasn't much good either. By now the streaming services are en route to become as terrible as whatever they were set out to replace. Once one of them started heavily advertising their own productions eve…

Every time I want to watch a movie, I go on Netflix and search. Then I want to scream, "What movie DOES Netflix have??"

https://www.justwatch.com/ is my goto wayto find where you can stream something in each country.
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