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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by techsupporter on Friday November 19, 2021 @04:00PM (#29282420)
> Which streaming service do I go to now for the science fiction?

Exactly. Every company has segmented their content by company, not by type. Sure, I can buy a subscription to Boomerang and get a lot of cartoons, but it's just the cartoons owned by Warner. But not all of them, because they've moved some of them--like Dexter's Laboratory--off to be HBO Max exclusives.

There's no way to say "I want a science fiction themed service" that includes Paramount and HBO and the old PTEN and the like, because no company would stand for another service mixing their IP like that.

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by erik_seaberg on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:27PM (#29284419)
Peacock has Battlestar Galactica but the Caprica prequel is on NBC only for cable customers. Disney+ can’t put the Spider-Man movies next to the other Marvel movies. When Doctor Who first came to HBO Max, you couldn’t watch it on a Roku TV because it wasn’t HBO Now or HBO Go. The industry is littered with exclusive regional contracts that continually expire and don’t make sense to the customers.
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