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For the past few years, the big TV networks made easy money selling their reruns to Netflix.
Now they're having second thoughts.
So are they ready to pull back on sales to Netflix and other digital services in the hopes of keeping their core business intact?
Investors will be looking for an answer to that question this week and next, as most of the big entertainment companies report their Q3 earnings and take questions from analysts. But several key TV executives have already signaled that they're going to stop selling their best stuff to digital services — particularly Netflix.
Binge-viewing has been established as the new method to consume content--that is the genie they need to stuff back in the bottle.
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Can the TV Guys Put the Netflix Genie Back in the Bottle?
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Hey, wait a minute!! I want a divorce!! ... you're not Clint Eastwood!!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @01:10AM
They also seem to think people are going to shell out 5-10 for 20 different services... PER MONTH That is not going to happen either. I just picked up 13 seasons of poirot for 80 bucks. I will be enjoying that for months. I can do that for years on end and still come out well ahead what these guys are thinking. When I am done I can donate to the local library or sell on ebay. That does not even begin to touch on the amount of dl options out there. Then all the other legal/illegal material.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:03AM
Thank you. I'll look for it at the public library. Agatha Christie died in 1976, so what's another year or two?
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:39AM
That doesn't apply to the movies. The last one was made only a year or two ago and the earliest one was made in the '80s.
The books are another matter, those are going to be expiring in the relative near future. Assuming that Disney is thwarted from getting it extended again.
But really, those books have been published in such large quantities that you should be able to find all of them for less than $1 each. The shipping is probably more than the book itself.