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I don't know if I'd go as far to say it's worse. Cable forced one's hand into paying for things they didn't necessarily want. At least with this model, we the c

I don't know if I'd go as far to say it's worse. Cable forced one's hand into paying for things they didn't necessarily want. At least with this model, we the consumer have the ability to pick and choose exactly what we want to pay for. If a network has shows that look appealing to you, subscribe for a couple months. If there's only one show that looks appealing, buy it on iTunes. We're never going to have an affordable, legal, pay-once-for-everything model.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> We're never going to have an affordable, legal, pay-once-for-everything model. That possibility is a huge market failure. The demand is there.
- jeromegv 7y ago
  How can you have access to all content while keeping it affordable? Cable was “everything” but it wasn’t affordable. Movie and TV Content is expensive to produce, can’t have it all for $10/month.
  - unlinked_dll 7y ago
    >How can you have access to all content while keeping it affordable Media companies could stop over pricing their content
  - anoncake 7y ago
    The marginal cost of watching something is neglible. The only reasonable outcome is everyone being able to access everything, anything else is a huge market failure.
  - AnthonyMouse 7y ago
    > How can you have access to all content while keeping it affordable? For the same total amount of content produced, they could give everyone access to all of it for the same total revenue they receive now and the only thing that would change is that everyone would have access to all of it. You don't make more money by having only 20% of the customers even if it means you don't have to share the revenue with four other studios. You make less, because having access to some of the content isn't worth as much as having access to all of the content, so the industry as a whole is providing less value and consequently doing less business.
dehrmann 7y ago
> We're never going to have an affordable, legal, pay-once-for-everything model. Why does it work for music, though?
- dillonmckay 7y ago
  I think it comes down to simple economics of delivery and media costs (both time and money). We would be having a different conversation if I could have a thumbdrive w enough storage capacity to hold the entire Disney catalog for $35. This makes even more sense if my ISP charges per GB. Why should I pay for duplicate transfer of data?
- redis_mlc 7y ago
  The US music industry doesn't have the MPAA.
  - dragonwriter 7y ago
    No, they have the RIAA, which is pretty much the exact same thing, but for the music industry.

TeMPOraL 7y ago

> We're never going to have an affordable, legal, pay-once-for-everything model. That possibility is a huge market failure. The demand is there.

jeromegv 7y ago
How can you have access to all content while keeping it affordable? Cable was “everything” but it wasn’t affordable. Movie and TV Content is expensive to produce, can’t have it all for $10/month.
- unlinked_dll 7y ago
  >How can you have access to all content while keeping it affordable Media companies could stop over pricing their content
- anoncake 7y ago
  The marginal cost of watching something is neglible. The only reasonable outcome is everyone being able to access everything, anything else is a huge market failure.
- AnthonyMouse 7y ago
  > How can you have access to all content while keeping it affordable? For the same total amount of content produced, they could give everyone access to all of it for the same total revenue they receive now and the only thing that would change is that everyone would have access to all of it. You don't make more money by having only 20% of the customers even if it means you don't have to share the revenue with four other studios. You make less, because having access to some of the content isn't worth as much as having access to all of the content, so the industry as a whole is providing less value and consequently doing less business.

dehrmann 7y ago

> We're never going to have an affordable, legal, pay-once-for-everything model. Why does it work for music, though?

dillonmckay 7y ago
I think it comes down to simple economics of delivery and media costs (both time and money). We would be having a different conversation if I could have a thumbdrive w enough storage capacity to hold the entire Disney catalog for $35. This makes even more sense if my ISP charges per GB. Why should I pay for duplicate transfer of data?
redis_mlc 7y ago
The US music industry doesn't have the MPAA.
- dragonwriter 7y ago
  No, they have the RIAA, which is pretty much the exact same thing, but for the music industry.