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on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:06AM
from the here's-hoping-the-fat-lady-has-laryngitis dept.
from the here's-hoping-the-fat-lady-has-laryngitis dept.
Netflix changed how we watch TV, but it didn't really change what we watch...
Netflix has achieved its incredible growth by taking distribution away from cable companies. Instead of watching The Office on cable, people now watch The Office on Netflix.
This edge isn't sustainable.
...
Disney's cable business has stagnated over the past seven years. But in about 175 days, Disney is set to launch its own streaming service called Disney+.It's going to charge $6.99/month—around $6 cheaper than Netflix.
And it's pulling all its content off of Netflix.
This is a big deal.
No more Bunk'd on Netflix? Nooooooooooooooo...
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Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by julian on Thursday May 23 2019, @06:14AM (8 children)
I will subscribe to one paid service for streaming media. I have chosen Netflix, mostly by inertia. I'm not going to have 10 different subscriptions to all the studios' different catalogs and offerings. The industry can either consolidate in a reasonable, pro-consumer, way, or I will go to my 2nd choice for media: Torrentz2.eu. [torrentz2.eu]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by bradley13 on Thursday May 23 2019, @08:13AM (4 children)
This. It's already a problem: there are too many different sources of content, each with its own subscription plan.
We subscribe to basic cable, to get local news, weather, etc.. It also includes the basic BBC channels, which we occasionally watch. In addition, we watch some sports, so I subscribe to the Eurosport app, on our Vero (Kodi) box. If BBC iPlayer existed outside the UK, I would probably subscribe to it as well. That's it. I am not also going to pay Netflix, Amazon, CBS, Disney, etc, etc... Even if it wouldn't be ridiculously expensive, it would be too complicated. So the stuff we watch less frequently gets torrented.
The usual case for piracy: make it too difficult/expensive/complicated to buy your product, and people find other solutions.
Intellectual property is, frankly, a contradiction in terms. A law which cannot be enforced is a stupid law. Things that exist purely electronically can be easily copied, there is no realistic way to prevent this --> ergo, copying electronic files should not be illegal in the first place. This makes no more sense than those old laws regulating how couples are supposed to have sex.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 1) by Only_Mortal on Thursday May 23 2019, @08:25AM
I was under the impression that a version of iPlayer exists in the US now?
Just found it: https://www.britbox.com/home [britbox.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @08:36AM
The problem with those sex laws was that if someone saw you doing a 69 with your wife they reported you to the clergy and the local lord meaning accusations of satanism and stint in jail. If you were lucky.
Yes this is a bad law and a bad system. It just feeds itself. The companies make money from copyrights then use that money to buy laws to make even note money.
Copyrights. 20 year term max. If there is no clear human owner then it is automatically in the public domain. Easy.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday May 23 2019, @02:57PM
I have no interest in any TV service with a monthly subscription fee frankly. We've actually never had cable TV in the decades we've lived where we are. I use an antenna and record OTA HD networks on our MythTV system ($20 a year for schedulesdirect listings).
Other than that all we've been using is Vudu. I have to confess that I hate the fact that they're owned by Walmart. That aside, there's no monthly subscription fee, there's a decent amount of free content with very limited commercials, and their prices for things like current movies are comparable with others. Often the 4K version (sometimes Dolby Vision and sometimes HDR) is the same price as HD. Most importantly we only pay for what we watch. I refuse to put up with anything other than that.
That's also why Amazon and others that have content only available from their service can stick it up their ass. I wish everyone would refuse to accept that and the practice would die of natural causes.
(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Thursday May 23 2019, @10:08PM
The Beebs plugin does a great job of delivering BBC access.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beebs-watch-bbc-iplayer-i/opmliiafmgjkgkfadkpomlefdllhajdi?hl=en [google.com]
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday May 23 2019, @04:08PM
Torrents for sure, but I don't do that anymore either. Instead I know a guy, who knows a guy. We hang out every year or so and exchange external hard drives. I say 'thanks, see you next year!'
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @04:41PM
I find it odd that you equate the desire for a streaming monopoly with "pro-consumer".
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday May 23 2019, @08:19PM
I switched to Netflix, because I was fed-up with video rental store fines. Just like a whole lot of people. Netflix was the nail in the coffin for most video rental stores and they were the first to get video streaming done correctly. People want a bunch of movies available to view when they want, without advertisements, at a reasonable cost.
Rant about Advertisements:
Did I mention, without Advertisements? Because, Advertisements are Annoying, and when you were paying for cable/satellite, you were also paying them to Advertise to you. It was such a major surprise when someone actually came out with something that didn't have Advertisements, that people flocked to it.
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