Re:NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
by mr_t on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @03:02AM
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Naive question: What makes you think that Netflix will probably die?
Re:NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
by haditab on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @04:06AM
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Not OP, but many think that Disney's launching it's streaming service will kill Netflix since it will pull all of it's content from Netflix and other streaming sites.
Re:NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
by v7p1Qbt1im on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:12AM
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Hyperbole much? Granted I‘m not most people but what keeps me subscribed and using a streaming service is steady new content. Nobody does that better than Netflix. At least for now. Have you seen Prime Video? It‘s basically barren. I can count on one hand the originals they put out this year. Hanna, Good Omens and Homecoming (I think).
Re:NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
by realityrunner on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @06:56AM
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It’s not really hyperbole when they’re actually going to be facing a massive content drought in the near future and won’t be able to justify price increases while offering less. There was a quote from the Wall Street Journal even saying “the three companies launching new streaming services have created TV shows and movies that make up nearly 40 percent of the viewing minutes on Netflix.“ Netflix may seem to put out content frequently, but it’s 100 miles long and two inches deep.
Re:NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
by chihuahua on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @04:27PM
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Prime Video is also going to have a new season of "The Expanse" later this year
Re:NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
by sametmax on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:48AM
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Amazon and disney just have more firepower. Amazon has the expertise in hosting, disney in content making. Amazon can drain customers with prime, and disney with the existing portfolio. Both have infinite cash to aquire and create new licences.
No matter how good I think netflix is, and despite their now long and good track record, they are entering a new fight bare handed against machine guns.
Re:NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
by leereeves on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @06:08AM
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Amazon doesn't seem to be seriously trying. Prime Video is a wasteland.
And Disney doesn't own all the content. Netflix need only be the streaming provider other content makers choose.
Re:NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
by MagnumOpus on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @08:25AM
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> Disney doesn't own all the content
But they own about half (Disney Studios, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, 20th Century Fox, Searchlight, NatGeo, and I am sure I forgot a dozen others), and they might never licence it to a "competitor" again unless they are forced to do under some sort of FRAND unbundling of content and distribution.
Re:NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
by sametmax on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @06:58AM
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Netflix has been at it for a decade. Give it 5 years.
I don't expect the GAFAM to play fair. They are going to arm wrest the industry to go through them.
Also I have a hard time feeling sorry for the traditional press. They spend decades killing their own reputation and now paying the price. They could have had web sites so reputable, so popular, that they would have been the news hub. Instead they turned internet into the bad guy, kept publishing political agendas and sensasionalist headlines and hoped we would suck it up as we did when they were king of the hill.