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This attitude needs to die in the business world. Particularly in entertainment offerings and cloud subscriptions. There is always an alternative, and it is li
by pdntspa 4y ago
This attitude needs to die in the business world. Particularly in entertainment offerings and cloud subscriptions.
There is always an alternative, and it is likely worse than your customers going to a competitor. Disney et al are going to bring back piracy at the rate they are going.
- Fatnino 4y agoPiracy IS the competition in UX. D+ needs to have a UX that's close enough behind the convenience of watching through a pirated channel that it doesn't push users over the hump. Once users go over it's very hard to lure them back.
- derac 4y agofmovies et al are pretty hard to beat. They have an extremely large selection that goes across all services and in my experience often have better image quality. I was comparing Netflix to fmovies recently and Netflix was looking like hot garbage. Also no need to log in, just enter the website into the URL and you're good to go. Very straightforward and fast user interface, even comments.
- izacus 4y agoI mean, we had that with having DVD/BR players being separate from the media they play. But meanwhile I daily see people on this very site demand and applaud this kind of vertical consolidation and death of choice on every level.
- winReInstall 4y agoI too agree, piracy is the only valid approach against media-mononopolies.
- altruios 4y agoSmall cluster servers serving local friend networks content will be the future. Plex is going to come under fire from other streaming services if the above ever happen... jellyfin to the rescue!
- winReInstall 4y agoI actually think NN dreaming up movies, depending on noise, the realtime reactions and the heroes journey will be the future. Just add a consistency layer on top (keep same face on the cast and name-consistent(place, enemy, protagonists, mc guffins) , the rest can be made up). NN generated art convinced me that the death of hollywood is just around the corner.
- digitaLandscape 4y ago
- andsoitis 4y ago> media-mononopolies How can you have more than one media monopoly?
- karmakurtisaani 4y agoMonopoly on the content.
- andsoitis 4y agoBy "the content" I assume you mean specific IP such as Star Wars, because nobody has monopoly on "content" at large. Anybody can create content, new stories, new characters. People do it all the time!
- karmakurtisaani 4y agoYes. Content that they own IP of.
- pipeline_peak 4y agoUnfortunately, they don’t have to do anything because content is king. Netflix has it backwards, great UX, shit content.