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My personal price preference breaks down into something along the lines of: I am happy to pay up to $100/mo for access to ANY movie or TV show. In the past on
by alexpotato 6y ago
My personal price preference breaks down into something along the lines of:
I am happy to pay up to $100/mo for access to ANY movie or TV show.
In the past on HN, people have pointed out that this is not possible at the $5 or $12 or $15/month price point which is fine. I wish someone would at least offer the option (or even tiers) so that I could make the decision for myself.
I don't really understand why the streaming services are leaving so much consumer surplus on the table. Clearly people are open to the idea because cable companies had tiers like this (which people paid for).
- tomnipotent 6y ago> because cable companies had tiers like this I'd much rather deal with multiple disparate streaming services than ever return to the days of a consolidated content provider. Having to log into a few different services to browse content is a small price to pay for banishing the middlemen.
- tatersolid 6y ago> Having to log into a few different services to browse content is a small price to pay for banishing the middlemen. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and even HBO are middlemen. Even much of their “original” content is produced by other production companies and licensed. Are you expecting each production company to have their own service some day?
- tomnipotent 6y ago> Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and even HBO are middlemen This is how the entertainment industry has worked for many decades, including the big studios, in that they're the financiers and marketing. So they pay for and own the content, have exclusive distribution of the content, and you can't sidestep them to get to the content since it wouldn't exist with out them. Does that sound like middlemen?