Re:How baseball’s tech team built HBO Now
by sremani on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @09:56AM
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So, way back like few years ago, when Reed Hastings was asked who his competition is, he replied HBO. True to that Netflix got into the business of new shows. So the executives of HBO will never tag along with Netflix, that is why HBO shows are on Amazon Instant Video, not on Netflix. Even though for the end-user there is a level difference in service provided by HBO and Netflix, both these companies view each other as rivals.
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Re:How baseball’s tech team built HBO Now
by rowofpixels on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @11:15AM
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I remember when Ted Sarandos (head of content acquisition at Netflix) said "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us."[1]
[1] http://www.gq.com/story/netflix-founder-reed-hastings-house-...