Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:32PM
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I think the traditional media companies will be happy enough if all of the streaming companies fail due to fragmentation and they can ramrod cable back down everyone's throats. Even a streaming failure might be a win for traditional media companies. It might even be the biggest win, honestly. I don't know, but it seems like there was more money in traditional media than in streaming. The brief point in time where everyone was paying for both was probably ideal. But now that a sizable portion of the population have cut out $100+ cable bills (plus cable ads) in favor of 1-3 $10 streaming subscriptions (without ads) makes it seem like traditional media was way more profitable.
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Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
by briffle on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:39PM
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Honestly, I want it to be more like Music. I can choose whichever streaming music company I want and get 99.9% of the same music, because they have standard fees they pay each other, etc.
Streaming Video is incredibly fragmented. It's honestly frustrating. I don't want to subscribe to 5 services. I currently have Hulu+Live, and it has ESPN, and lots of other channels I like, but doesn't have the local Fox station, or the local ABC station (only the national fox news and abc news).
Excessive Fragmentation is going to cause everyone to go back to pirating stuff, like they did before Netflix made it too cheap and easy to bother.
Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
by papln on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:22PM
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That may be because it's far more expensive to make one consumer-hour of TV/movie content than 1 consumer-hour of music content.
Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
by takeda on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:32AM
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Having your show streamed on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney+ and others at the same time would make you more money than having it streamed only on your single service.
They are all playing to kill Netflix and other competition so they can establish monopoly like they had on cable.
Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
by nsporillo on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:28PM
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I bought an HD antenna that gave me roughly 20 local channels with crystal clear picture and no buffering for $28 - no subscription. I'd highly recommend it for cord cutters to augment their streaming with local news and sports on national tv (world series, super bowl, sunday night football, etc).