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>I'm curious about how significantly this will upend the industry due to direct competition from classic films. My guess, not much. If they started having to c

>I'm curious about how significantly this will upend the industry due to direct competition from classic films. My guess, not much. If they started having to compete with classics and were losing, I imagine the classics would just vanish from those services.

ElFitz 6y ago
Or you’d have to pay a premium to access x+ years old movies. Which would be a smarter move.
- asciimov 6y ago
  I think you have it backwards, the old movies would be the draw, the new releases would be the premium. You have to keep people subscribed to the service, well curated old movies would be one way to do this.
  - ElFitz 6y ago
    You know what? Let’s A/B test! ^^
ghaff 6y ago
There's not a lot of evidence that there's a big market for a premium streaming classics service. I would probably subscribe to one but the film buff market is probably not a huge one. (I know there's Criterion but that tends towards arthouse fare rather than mainstream classics.)