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posted by martyb on Thursday May 23 2019, @05:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the here's-hoping-the-fat-lady-has-laryngitis dept.

Forbes:

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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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Thursday May 23 2019, @08:51PM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday May 23 2019, @08:51PM (#846788)

    1) Are you aware that you are allowed to make decent points without adding moronic trollish liminary comments ?
    2) Are you aware that Netflix, by producing its own content, can actually distribute it to other places, bringing significant income from abroad to keep financing said content, and may therefore be fine in their foreign operations where the competition is less lopsided ? That could have an impact on their market value...
    3) Customers will run away to competitors as soon as the delivery quality, or price, changes due to US ISP shenanigans. Netflix can keep being a US content creator, and sell that content to others for distribution, but in the US they are toast. Pure production houses do exist, and Netflix is not in a bad place to survive as a producer of good quality shows. But their US distribution is going to die, because the end of NN means that the price can't match the limited homegrown content.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @09:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @09:27PM (#846805)

    Are you aware that you are allowed to make decent points without adding moronic trollish liminary comments ?

    You got that backwards. The decent points are there to sucker people into the trolling. Authoritarians like j-mo don't care about the merits, they care about displays of social dominance. If the facts achieve that goal, then they use facts. If lies will work instead, then they use lies. And if neither will work, they just randomly shit on their perceived enemies to puff themselves up like a rooster crowing from atop a pile of dung. By engaging, even with their reasonable-sounding theories, you are giving them the attention that their desicated, self-hating little souls need to feel good. Check out the concept of narcissistic supply [wikipedia.org] - negative supply is just as good for them as positive supply.