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I don’t work in streaming, so take this opinion with a grain of salt, but my impression is this problem will solve itself in a few years. Right now the video i
by apozem 5y ago
I don’t work in streaming, so take this opinion with a grain of salt, but my impression is this problem will solve itself in a few years.
Right now the video industry is in land-grab mode. Everyone knows there are too many subscription streaming services. In five years there will be three, maybe four winners, and everyone else will sell content to them.
- emrah 5y agoThe problem isn't that there are too many, but that they are too expensive, especially since one needs to subscribe to several of them to get enough diversity/coverage of content ala cable.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoIt is the same problem with yachts.
- michaelt 5y agoWell, the TV industry always knew there were people who were willing to spend $100/month for cable. And it had adverts. They hate the idea of those people paying less.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago> They hate the idea of those people paying less. They do? I think many people are just suckers who can't say no.
- stevenwliao 5y agoWhy is anyone entitled to as much content as cable for a Netflix-like price?
- redis_mlc 5y ago> In five years there will be three, maybe four winners, and everyone else will sell content to them. In a few years the content industry will own all of the subscription streaming services. Disney is well on its way to ensuring that.
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- goodpoint 5y agoAKA yet another oligopoly. It's really not ending well for customers, both in terms of quality and price.
- toss1 5y agoLikely true that we'll see market consolidation. But that sounds to me like it will make it worse in the end. Fewer and larger competitors will likely wind up like ISP services, consistently and overpriced as if they were colluding, without even having to collude. Sure, each service will have a larger selection, but like the cable companies now, we'll be paying for a lot of cruft that we don't want, and still not getting some content really important to us. IOW, it seems like the A La Carte that we all want started to appear, and now it is going away before it ever really got established.