Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day by cookiecaper on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:17PM (#21528255)

Thanks for the correction. It seems this became the case with the acquisition of Fox, since Hulu was apparently 1/3 owned by Disney, 1/3 Fox, 1/3 Comcast. With Disney outbidding Comcast for Fox, they became 2/3 owners and Comcast decided that it made sense to exit.

I think the ultimate reality still stands, just s/Hulu/TBD Streaming/g. Comcast will roll their own competitor at some point. Rent-by-mail is one thing, but when it's just moving bits around, it doesn't make sense to outsource to a licensee like Netflix anymore.

Unless Netflix can figure out how to lobby and legislate with the same supreme competence they apply to systems engineering, their long-term prospects as an independent entity are bleak. The copyright regime will be their downfall.

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Re:Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day by basch on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:06PM (#21529566)

Comcast has multiple competitors already out in the wild.

First they have XFinity Flex. Their competitor to Roku.

Then they have Peacock, which at the moment looks like a competitor to CBS All Access. Coming soon.

Somewhere in between a channel and a platform you have Live TV broadcast. Who knows how they will brand it in the long run (they will want you to pay for their variant of "cable service / satellite".) ATM they have the Xfinity Stream Beta App on Roku.

They also have the NBC Family of streaming apps: bravo, e!, nbc, oxygen, syfy, telemundo, universo, usa. They would absolutely benefit from a single "guide" interface like ATT TV Now/ / PlutoTV.

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