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No New Streaming Services Will Launch in 2022
- vardump 4y agoThe more fragmented the streaming services get, the more attractive piracy becomes.
- rtkwe 4y agoThat's the real irony of the situation. Paying just a bit a month to not break the law and have easy access to good quality streams was amazingly attractive. Now the tech is more accessible and everyone wants to own their own piece of that revenue instead of renting their content out. That fracturing though is recreating a very similar situation to the height of piracy though where it's every expensive to get access to all the media you might want to watch.
- isk517 4y agoThen when enough business is lost to pirating company's will start pushing for pointless laws to stop pirating because as we all know pirating is purely the result of people not wanting to pay and has not to do with the free thing providing better quality and greater convenience. Eventually some brilliant person will come up the idea of not making the consumers life difficult and the whole cycle will start again.
- throwaway743 4y ago> as we all know pirating is purely the result of people not wanting to pay and has not to do with the free thing providing better quality and greater convenience. Speak for yourself. What about those in locations where access to various forms of media is prohibited? Or those who are in poverty/in impoverished areas? Because they're unable to pay to access media forms they should be prevented from accessing them? Has youtube killed Spotify's business? How about piratebay? Is Hollywood in shambles? P2p media sharing has been around forever and is still conveniently available, yet these industries persist and rake in. They've had little impact to the bottomlines of these industries and will likely continue to have little impact.
- CharlesW 4y agoPersonally, I'd prefer frictionless fragmentation to centralization. I'm never going to subscribe to Paramount+ (or Whatever+) to see one or two shows I'm interested in, but I'd gladly pay $3-5 to stream a season of Star Trek: Discovery. If there's also a Paramount+ bundle that includes all of their original and licensed content, that's fine too.
- brnt 4y agoFrictionless fragmentation would be that services adhere to some standard API and that viewing tools (we optionally build ourselves) can simply sign in to an arbitrary list of services. If that were possible, then yes. For many streaming service, I can't even figure out if the support Linux (e.g. HBO does not explicitly state I can use their service with a browser on Linux). So, it makes no sense to sign up even if I thought it was worth the money.
- newswasboring 4y agoPardon the ignorance but it's web technology right? Why would the OS matter? Is this some codec issue?
- dragontamer 4y ago> some standard API Web browser is the standard API. And the viewing tool is Windows. I know you wanna plug in your $20 to $50 dongle into an HDMI port and hope for the best, but your laptop will work fine, and I'm pretty sure your phone (Android / iOS) will also work fine. > support Linux Well there's another problem. Linux isn't a standard (Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu all have different quirks). By the time we start looking at those weird hardware codec accelerators and whether or not Linux supports those drivers, you would have been done with your Windows + HDMI port.
- RockRobotRock 4y agoWhy do you want streaming services to be centralized? Is everyone forgetting how awful cable TV subscriptions were? You could subscribe to Netflix/Hulu/Peacock/Disney and still come under a lot of cable bills.
- thr0wawayf00 4y agoThe fragmentation of streaming services often conflicts with what consumers want to see. Spotify is a centralized service and people love it. That's basically what consumers want, a Spotify for TV. The other issue with all of these streaming services is varied compatibility based on your platform. HBO didn't work with Roku for a year or two over a contract dispute, other streaming services weren't available on all devices. Granted, I haven't run into this issue lately, but in the era of "smart" (eyeroll) TVs and other entertainment devices, you can't really assume that anything "just works" anymore without checking first.
- RockRobotRock 4y agoYouTube didn't work on Amazon Fire devices for a long time because Amazon removed competing Google products from Amazon.com. It was really frustrating. The consumer always loses in these cases.
- rascul 4y agoHulu itself is about the same costs as equivalent cable for me, except I have to buy the hardware (if I need any) and nobody comes out to hook it up. And then there's issues with the stream so very often...
- lotsofpulp 4y agoBecause the real reason is that people do not want to pay the amount that the sellers are asking, not that they have to visit a different website or app. I can easily search and watch anything outside of Netflix in the Apple’s TV app right now within seconds assuming I have no problem paying for it. Whether or not it is “fragmented” makes little difference in user experience.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoThat is the part that really gets me. Content owners are desperately trying to recreate cable model. I am not exactly a full blown pirate ( I mostly stopped after Netflix delivered a decent experience at negligible cost ), but my buddy is a hoarder for lack of a better term. Steam/GOG made me stop game piracy altogether. Now, I am slowly starting to face a very simple question with streaming. Do I want to maintain 3-4 active membership on the off chance something is there or do I just ask my buddy? If it were not for my wife, Amazon would already be my only streaming service and even that only, because it is currently included. I think my final straw was Dexter being locked behind Hulu's Showtime additional subscription. Just in case you are wondering, I did not ask my friend for it nor did I pay for it. Not yet anyway. I may have some free time coming in a couple of weeks to indulge. Make it convenient for me. Make it goddamn one place. Do not try to nickel and dime me. You will lose. You are fighting against superior quality at zero price and with people, whose entire existence is collecting for no other reason than collecting. You NEED to deliver minimum fuss to me. 20 streaming services is not minimum fuss. Netflix was that. It had almost complete library, but you chose to blow it up in a panic of greed. Now, I don't care how you do it, but you ( media conglomerate ) better recognize this reality. Signed. At this time, still a customer. edit: I forgot one more thing. Side bonus of moving back to piracy will be that my watching habits will not be up for sale to the highest bidder.
- tilsammans 4y agoThis is already wrong. SkyShowtime launched today in western Europe.
- nsteel 4y agoNo plans to launch in the UK. Is that because we already have NowTV which those 20 other counties don't? So is this just NowTv outside of the UK? Maybe not so new?
- jefftk 4y agoThey're limiting to services with 1M subscribers. Which means they often won't list ones for the current year! (This methodology means you can be reasonably accurate for past years, but the current year and possibly recent years will miss services that will later get to 1M)
- Reinhart 4y agoComcast executives are loving this consolidation and price hiking. The great re-bundling and the death of a la carte TV has begun in earnest.
- magic_hamster 4y agoI feel bad for Netflix. They pioneered this market segment and now it reached saturation, people are getting tired of streaming fragmentation, their content took a turn for the worse and we are slowly and surely marching towards the next "Netflix of Streaming Services", which is basically Cable over IP. I wonder of Netflix could have done anything to keep being so far ahead and offer content from so many other companies, or was it always doomed to last just a few years before everyone and their grandma started a streaming service.
- fny 4y agoWhy feel bad? Competition is a good thing. They enjoyed the ride while they could, now they need to fight to win.
- xypage 4y agoBecause Netflix was the competition, the competition for cable and expensive physical media. Now all the companies who took none of that risk are coming into streaming and get to take their IPs off Netflix, copying their system (but worse, Netflix isn't perfect but it has the best interface in my opinion), and taking it back to no real competition just the same big companies there were before with a new platform. And on top of that, a lot of those other companies getting into it are charging a lot more, and some are playing ads even with the subscriptions.
- dexterdog 4y agoNetflix had a good interface when they had no vested interest. Now they just want to jam their own mostly terrible content down your throat because they don't have to pay as much to show it and it helps their own ratings.
- Bombthecat 4y agoIts not competition. Its a license war
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- rwbt 4y agoGood. This is likely an unpopular opinion but the internet was supposed to bring knowledge, creative expression and so much more to the masses. Instead it devolved into a dopamine delivery machine with non-stop binge consumption and addiction to everyone.
- capableweb 4y agoLikely to be unpopular because it's likely to be false dichotomy. The internet is both of those things, at the same time, as you can choose how you use it, whenever you want. Sometimes it gives me dopamine, sometimes it brings me knowledge, sometimes it allows me to express myself creatively and sometimes it allows me to consume other peoples creativity.
- dylan604 4y agoThe people involved in making the dopamine delivery shows also consider that an expression of their creative abilities. Just to throw a different perspective into the mix.
- soco 4y agoLike a recent article was saying, every new "breakthrough" means nowadays more worries about your personal life/info/safety...
- GauntletWizard 4y agoHow does "knowledge, creative expression and so much more to the masses" differ from "dopamine delivery machine"? Is it actually worthwhile for everyone to have deep knowledge of X if they're not actually going to use that knowledge? There's a distinct effect to knowledge inflation, and knowledge and skills are not the same though related. A lot of people who are, to use a loaded term, " Too Big for their Britches", but also a lot of people who how immense access to know their lot in life isn't good but without the skills or opportunities to actually make use of that.
- culturestate 4y ago> Even when taking into consideration smaller services with less than 1M subscribers, there haven’t been any new streaming service launches in 2022. Not only did CNN+ launch in 2022, it also folded in 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%2B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%2B
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- daveevad 4y agoI've been thinking about CNN+ a decent amount recently and wonder if the primary issue with the product was that it wasn't primarily a live product. It's my thinking that the best aspect of CNN is when it covers live breaking news in a way that feels like the story is unfolding before the viewer's eyes. CNN+'s reliance on VOD content and news personalities is not that captivating. A product that revealed the raw journalism in real-time would be really compelling.
- dschuetz 4y agoWell isn't that a shame. Next year: streaming services are being aquired to kill competition, or pushed into bankruptcy!
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Next year: streaming services are being aquired to kill competition, That’s been happening already (e.g., Discovery/Warner)