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> the services have taken the piss? Which services do you mean? Netflix? Or do you mean the other 7 services, which didn’t exist back then. There was a brief

> the services have taken the piss? Which services do you mean? Netflix? Or do you mean the other 7 services, which didn’t exist back then. There was a brief window of time when streaming was able to compete with piracy (free) and it’s when there was just one streaming service. Netflix was able to have a robust (if not comprehensive) catalogue (because it had no competitors), and was dedicated to user experience (becaues it was willing to burn money to grow its customerbase), and had just secured multi-year licensing deals for content from all the major film and television distributors at bargain basement prices (because no one else had yet realized how valuable those streaming rights were).

zelphirkalt 3y ago
Aren't they raking in millions or billions now? Not enough money to pay for the deals now? What is stopping them? Also their browser and software limitations are of their own making. Do away with those, and I might even consider a subscription. Obviously I will not, if they continue to discriminate against me.
- fragmede 3y ago
  https://techland.time.com/2011/12/01/hbo-boss-to-netflix-youll-never-get-our-shows/ https://techland.time.com/2011/12/01/hbo-boss-to-netflix-you... HBO Boss to Netflix: You’ll Never Get Our Shows (2011) Money can't buy everything. though apparently 2023 called to say that's no longer true. HBO is exploring licensing their content to Netflix. https://www.vulture.com/2023/07/hbo-tv-shows-netflix-wbd-licensing-deal.html https://www.vulture.com/2023/07/hbo-tv-shows-netflix-wbd-lic...
Terretta 3y ago
>> the services have taken the piss? > Which services do you mean? As a pioneer of entitlement-based streaming video who believed in the tech, I pay for every streaming service that remains ad free and is available a la carte as an add-on "channel" to TV+, Hulu, or Prime. I'm down from most all of them, to just a handful. Our consulting to content and distribution firms in the 2000s told them they had to do five things to compete: - eliminate anxiety of appointment viewing - eliminate anxiety of acquiring media (costs) - eliminate anxiety of ownership (durability) - eliminate anxiety of compatibility (devices) - eliminate anxiety of availability (when, where) Netflix is undoing several of these. They're adding cost of viewing ads, removing promise of working on all devices, and more aggressively removing deep content.

zelphirkalt 3y ago

Aren't they raking in millions or billions now? Not enough money to pay for the deals now? What is stopping them? Also their browser and software limitations are of their own making. Do away with those, and I might even consider a subscription. Obviously I will not, if they continue to discriminate against me.

fragmede 3y ago
https://techland.time.com/2011/12/01/hbo-boss-to-netflix-youll-never-get-our-shows/ https://techland.time.com/2011/12/01/hbo-boss-to-netflix-you... HBO Boss to Netflix: You’ll Never Get Our Shows (2011) Money can't buy everything. though apparently 2023 called to say that's no longer true. HBO is exploring licensing their content to Netflix. https://www.vulture.com/2023/07/hbo-tv-shows-netflix-wbd-licensing-deal.html https://www.vulture.com/2023/07/hbo-tv-shows-netflix-wbd-lic...

Terretta 3y ago

>> the services have taken the piss? > Which services do you mean? As a pioneer of entitlement-based streaming video who believed in the tech, I pay for every streaming service that remains ad free and is available a la carte as an add-on "channel" to TV+, Hulu, or Prime. I'm down from most all of them, to just a handful. Our consulting to content and distribution firms in the 2000s told them they had to do five things to compete: - eliminate anxiety of appointment viewing - eliminate anxiety of acquiring media (costs) - eliminate anxiety of ownership (durability) - eliminate anxiety of compatibility (devices) - eliminate anxiety of availability (when, where) Netflix is undoing several of these. They're adding cost of viewing ads, removing promise of working on all devices, and more aggressively removing deep content.