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Re:AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark... by maxsilver on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:32PM (#19392021)
As a young person who likes Westworld, this is a great strategy for like 1 month a year. What are they going to do for the 15-ish months of downtime they have between seasons?

Right now they have a limited selection of high quality shows, just enough to keep people hooked for the next great one. If they switch to just pumping out lower-quality, higher-quantity stuff, I suspect people will just cancel -- everyone already has Netflix for that.

HBO seems to think it's the next "Netflix", but if they follow the strategy they've described so far, I suspect they'll be the next "CBS All Access".

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Re:AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark... by dragonwriter on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:48PM (#19392223)
> HBO seems to think it's the next "Netflix"

AT&T seems to think HBO can be HBO and also be Netflix; they're wrong, but it's not inevitable they’ll break the being HBO part irrecoverably before they realize that.

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