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I see this gripe throughout but the streaming subscription service is more like HBO in the old cable days. They had a licensed set of content that rotates every
by fnordpiglet 2y ago
I see this gripe throughout but the streaming subscription service is more like HBO in the old cable days. They had a licensed set of content that rotates every month. You don’t get to own any of it because their whole illusion of catalog depth is based on the rotation semantic. This is less about streaming and more about royalties and licensing.
Although still imperfect as an ownership mechanism the analogy to DVDs is purchasing the content from say Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV. You can “own” a much broader catalog, the ownership rights aren’t super clear or stable over time, but the DVD / streaming video is licensed to you permanently and sits in your library.
Using contemporaneous language Netflix is to HBO as Amazon Prime Video ownership is to a DVD.
- rchaud 2y agoDidn't most people subscribe to HBO for its original series? In the 2000s they had Entourage, Sopranos and Six Feet Under and probably many more I can't remember.
- goatlover 2y agoGame of Thrones being the really big one.
- rchaud 2y agoGoT started in 2011.
- fnordpiglet 2y agoHBO was quite old at that point when the original programming started. I remember when it started and in its real growth period it would send a monthly viewers guide of their rotating catalog with show times. Original programming more or less started much later after they were well established and seeking marginal growth.