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Q: How competent Disney is in terms of technology: content distribution over internet, multiple form factor of devices, taking care of scale, latency, slow netw

by achow 8y ago

Q: How competent Disney is in terms of technology: content distribution over internet, multiple form factor of devices, taking care of scale, latency, slow network, and then algorithms for big data analysis - devising content strategies, customizing as per consumer taste, preference... Can we see equivalent of this from Disney https://medium.com/netflix-techblog https://medium.com/netflix-techblog Or, it is that Disney just uploads their existing content on web with some kind of delayed release logic along with a payment gateway.

reboog711 8y ago
The Disney Streaming Blog is relatively new: https://medium.com/disney-streaming https://medium.com/disney-streaming Also check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMTech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMTech for more info on the team behind the scenes.
roberte3 8y ago
Disney is CRAZY competent at content distribution. ESPN is a Disney company, Movies Anywhere (is/was) a Disney project, the Disney+ service they are talking about is actually public v2.0 (They rolled out something similar in Europe a few years back, called Disney Life). Disney has a universal "login" system, that shares your profile/preferences everywhere from parks to cable, its got everything favorite sports teams/players and can serve up custom content and more. There is a lot going on at the house of mouse. (Do a job search on the Disney website and set your region to tech hub outside of LA/Orlando...)
bonesss 8y ago
Think about the brand awareness, marketing savvy, and analytics endeavours they have to manage their movie empire. They're not dropping Billion dollar movies every few months by accident. On the streaming side they've got multiple tech houses under their umbrella with oodles of experience on all fronts. Naw, Disney has gathered multiple cultural touchstones and is putting them all onto their managed platform. This is a stunning play for a generation of content consumers, and arguably puts everyone else in a race for second place. Speaking of which: an HBO/NetFlix merger has never made more sense...
scarface74 8y ago
Disney owns BAMTech, the company responsible for the baseball streaming service and they rearchitected HBOs service after HBOs in house effort flailed.

by achow 8y ago

reboog711 8y ago

The Disney Streaming Blog is relatively new: https://medium.com/disney-streaming https://medium.com/disney-streaming Also check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMTech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMTech for more info on the team behind the scenes.

roberte3 8y ago

Disney is CRAZY competent at content distribution. ESPN is a Disney company, Movies Anywhere (is/was) a Disney project, the Disney+ service they are talking about is actually public v2.0 (They rolled out something similar in Europe a few years back, called Disney Life). Disney has a universal "login" system, that shares your profile/preferences everywhere from parks to cable, its got everything favorite sports teams/players and can serve up custom content and more. There is a lot going on at the house of mouse. (Do a job search on the Disney website and set your region to tech hub outside of LA/Orlando...)

bonesss 8y ago

Think about the brand awareness, marketing savvy, and analytics endeavours they have to manage their movie empire. They're not dropping Billion dollar movies every few months by accident. On the streaming side they've got multiple tech houses under their umbrella with oodles of experience on all fronts. Naw, Disney has gathered multiple cultural touchstones and is putting them all onto their managed platform. This is a stunning play for a generation of content consumers, and arguably puts everyone else in a race for second place. Speaking of which: an HBO/NetFlix merger has never made more sense...

scarface74 8y ago

Disney owns BAMTech, the company responsible for the baseball streaming service and they rearchitected HBOs service after HBOs in house effort flailed.