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What Movie Studios Refuse to Understand About Streaming

37 points by sohkamyung 6y ago

Shivetya 6y ago
Well we the consumers helped to create the new normal. There is no shortage of stories, comments, and the like, where people decried how evil it was for cable/satellite companies to bundle up everything and not allow us to choose. So we all flocked to streaming services declaring the freedom to choose and how much we saved. Aggregators will have to return in some form or another but the danger here is that they likely not going to be independent from the studios as cable companies were in their original days; many were later bought up by big media conglomerates. The difference though now is what we have now is not the same as theaters being forced to buy blind and entire set of movies. We are not prevented from having any number of streaming services. Plus we can still binge watch series just like we did during the early days of netflix and hulu. we were binge watching series that had already had their weekly release schedule played out. you can do the same with current services, wait till the current season plays out then subscribe. now if services actively prevent binge watching a series then they should be called out on it - though not necessarily regulated over it. We are still in the shake out period. There are so many services and some are cheap and others mind numbingly expensive for the content they offer. I don't expect them all to survive so their content will syndicate elsewhere.
iruoy 6y ago
A few years ago people thought Netflix was going t be the Spotify of Video. That turned out quite different though. Especially now that Disney has multiple streaming services a lot of the biggest movies won't ever come to competing platforms (Lucasfilm, Marvel, 21st Century Fox). In 2019 7 of the 10 highest grossing films were from Disney studios and they're all still exclusive to Disney+.
- jfengel 6y ago
  Note that they're not using the "Fox" or "21st century" names any more. The various pieces are using versions of the original historical name "Twentieth Century Pictures", before they took over Fox Films and merged their name in.
pasttense01 6y ago
The average movie theater ticket price is $9.37. This is roughly equivalent to a monthly fee for a streaming service. [and of course your total expenses will be much higher than $9.37 when you include the popcorn, soft drinks, parking, etc.] It's totally trivial to add or subtract streaming services each month.
teclordphrack2 6y ago
I will pay for Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. They saw the market before it was a thing and went for it. If the content I want to consume is not on those services then I am going to watch it pirated for free. I will never pay any of the established players that have now moved into the space and tried to fracture it.
- atat7024 6y ago
  Didn't check who owns Hulu, huh
- alropp 6y ago
  If your FOMO for that content is so strong you can’t actually bring yourself to just boycott and ignore it, that seems like a good sign that the product is too appealing and your principles too weak for such pirate-slacktivism to affect anyone’s bottom line.
  - pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
    Well, good, then they won’t mind.

37 points by sohkamyung 6y ago

Well we the consumers helped to create the new normal. There is no shortage of stories, comments, and the like, where people decried how evil it was for cable/satellite companies to bundle up everything and not allow us to choose. So we all flocked to streaming services declaring the freedom to choose and how much we saved. Aggregators will have to return in some form or another but the danger here is that they likely not going to be independent from the studios as cable companies were in their original days; many were later bought up by big media conglomerates. The difference though now is what we have now is not the same as theaters being forced to buy blind and entire set of movies. We are not prevented from having any number of streaming services. Plus we can still binge watch series just like we did during the early days of netflix and hulu. we were binge watching series that had already had their weekly release schedule played out. you can do the same with current services, wait till the current season plays out then subscribe. now if services actively prevent binge watching a series then they should be called out on it - though not necessarily regulated over it. We are still in the shake out period. There are so many services and some are cheap and others mind numbingly expensive for the content they offer. I don't expect them all to survive so their content will syndicate elsewhere.

iruoy 6y ago

A few years ago people thought Netflix was going t be the Spotify of Video. That turned out quite different though. Especially now that Disney has multiple streaming services a lot of the biggest movies won't ever come to competing platforms (Lucasfilm, Marvel, 21st Century Fox). In 2019 7 of the 10 highest grossing films were from Disney studios and they're all still exclusive to Disney+.

jfengel 6y ago
Note that they're not using the "Fox" or "21st century" names any more. The various pieces are using versions of the original historical name "Twentieth Century Pictures", before they took over Fox Films and merged their name in.

pasttense01 6y ago

The average movie theater ticket price is $9.37. This is roughly equivalent to a monthly fee for a streaming service. [and of course your total expenses will be much higher than $9.37 when you include the popcorn, soft drinks, parking, etc.] It's totally trivial to add or subtract streaming services each month.

teclordphrack2 6y ago

I will pay for Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. They saw the market before it was a thing and went for it. If the content I want to consume is not on those services then I am going to watch it pirated for free. I will never pay any of the established players that have now moved into the space and tried to fracture it.

atat7024 6y ago
Didn't check who owns Hulu, huh
alropp 6y ago
If your FOMO for that content is so strong you can’t actually bring yourself to just boycott and ignore it, that seems like a good sign that the product is too appealing and your principles too weak for such pirate-slacktivism to affect anyone’s bottom line.
- pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
  Well, good, then they won’t mind.