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The way I see it, you have three choices: - true a la carte; pay for exactly what you want (on disc or through some provider's store like iTunes, Amazon Video,
by ascagnel_ 10y ago
The way I see it, you have three choices:
- true a la carte; pay for exactly what you want (on disc or through some provider's store like iTunes, Amazon Video, Xbox Video, etc)
- subscribe to a bunch of different services (the situation we're in now)
- bundle them up
A la carte pricing will be more expensive than anything else, but you get some greater flexibility over the stuff you own. The situation we have now is annoying, but at least you can turn them on and off as needed (so you can pay for HBO only when Game of Thrones is airing). When you bundle them up, it's only a matter of time until you end up with the traditional cable bundle and all the customer abuses and fleecing that it entails.
- endymi0n 10y agoAt JustWatch, we've started aggregating the streaming market, and at the beginning the market looked like a lot of consolidation (harmonized prices for rent/buy offers, Netflix/Amazon Prime going for global deals...) - but by now, it looks nothing like we'll be out of business anytime soon. Movie rights and distribution are still very strategically fragmented into various differently sized individual deals and packages - and none of the established movie studios and new digital players particularly like each other. All of it creates a situation that makes a universal legal streaming service with a broad offering and flatrate pricing (like Spotify) highly unlikely. Bad for the user, good for us.
- chiph 10y agoIf for some reason this doesn't work out, look at doing the same thing for publications. It'd be nice to have one place to pay (and manage subscriptions for) the WSJ and other paywalled sites.