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Re:Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Ne... by SteveNuts on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:23AM (#17559248)
At a certain point there's simply going to be too many options. There's already a huge overlap of content between the big players, so it'll come down to who has the best originals.

People aren't going to pay for 3-5 disparate video services, especially where 80% of the same content is available on all of them.

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Re:Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Ne... by EpicEng on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:39AM (#17559356)
>People aren't going to pay for 3-5 disparate video services, especially where 80% of the same content is available on all of them.

Sure about that? HBO, Showtime, Starz, sports packages, etc. Plenty of evidence that they _will_ do exactly that. I hope it doesn't go that way, but there's a reason we ended up with cable in its current form.

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Re:Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Ne... by SteveNuts on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:44AM (#17559390)
Eventually it'll end up just like a bundled cable subscription. Anecdotally I don't know anyone that pays for all of those services + an Amazon video and Netflix.

Most of the people I know have Netflix + maybe one premium channel add-on subscription.

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Re:Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Ne... by gremlinsinc on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:14PM (#17563718)
Yeah, we have Netflix, and I get HBO for about 3 months/per year till I'm caught up on the major shows, except this year (No game of thrones).
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Re:Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Ne... by stevula on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @12:29PM (#17559780)
Lots of people have Amazon Prime which includes the video streaming service.
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Re:Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Ne... by mc32 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:34AM (#17559327)
Maybe a third party will arise which would bundle the services at some discount -kind of like we have with museum passes and other bundling services.
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Re:Walmart may launch a video streaming service to battle Ne... by ilikecakeandpie on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:43AM (#17559386)
We'll come full circle

OTA TV => Cable and Satellite Companies => Streaming services => Service or company that wrangles in all streaming services

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