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It's such a funny story that Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix for $50 million.
by captaintobs 3y ago
It's such a funny story that Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix for $50 million.
- haolez 3y agoThis could also have led to a bad ending. They could have killed what would make Netflix great and successful.
- School-Cotton 3y ago> They could have killed what would make Netflix great and successful You mean like Netflix is doing now?
- toomuchtodo 3y agoYes but without making all those tech folks rich first. (not hating, get rich if you can)
- isk517 3y agoYeah, but it's taken them the better part of a decade to do that. If they had been bought by Blockbuster they would have had access to people with the know-how and experience necessary to destroy a successful business quicker and more efficiently.
- dnissley 3y agoYes, but without the cambrian explosion of content that netflix footed the bill for over so many years
- echelon 3y agoNetflix did not create a Cambrian explosion of video content. That would be YouTube and TikTok. The Cambrian explosion of cinema is still waiting to happen, but generative AI is poised to deliver on that sooner or later.
- Clamchop 3y agoI think if we constrain it to scripted television (and a fair number of movies now, too), they did. House of Cards was a big deal for being a streaming-first big-budget TV show. That's commonplace now. That wasn't that long ago. Since then, all of the major players have joined the table, sunk audacious sums of money into developing new projects, and there's more high-end TV made in a year than I can watch. Cue the flip "but none of it is any good" comments but nevertheless, Netflix blazed that trail.
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