Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by chrishacken on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @09:50PM (#14964865)

| The biggest deterrent, for me at least, is not the price but the need to switch platforms. I'm already annoyed when I have to go from Netflix to Amazon to find a movie/show I want to see but can't remember where it is. No chance I'll add a third, forth, or fifth platform to the mix.

That's my biggest pain point as well. I already have to switch between Netflix / Hulu / Amazon to figure out who has the content I want. I've always been a huge Stargate fan; Netflix and Amazon used to have it, now only Hulu has it. Amazon is the only one that has the latest episodes for shows that I like, (although I have to pay extra, I'm willing to bite the bullet for my favorite show).

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by TheCoreh on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @10:00PM (#14964913)

IMO, one of the biggest design goals of Apple TV is precisely exposing content on a provider-agnostic interface, to avoid this pain. As services get more and more fragmented, Apple could become more and more competitive in that space.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by upvotinglurker on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:12PM (#14982477)

Using Prime and Netflix with the FireTV Stick, if I search for a movie in Amazon's interface and Netflix has it, Amazon will tell me so and provide a button to click directly to that movie in the Netflix app. Same with the Showtime app (not sure about Hulu as I don't subscribe to it currently)

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