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Netflix partnering with, or potentially acquired by, Amazon to take on other platforms makes sense. There needs to be consolidation and I think Bezos could do
by midas007 13y ago
Netflix partnering with, or potentially acquired by, Amazon to take on other platforms makes sense. There needs to be consolidation and I think Bezos could do a better job bringing in bigger licensing deals.
- serge2k 13y agoSo your solution to defeating a monopoly is to form a monopoly?
- pelario 13y agoThat is called duopoly, and is less bad than a monopoly.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoA duopoly might help in America but for the rest of us (at least where I'm from) competition is working fine. I can choose between around 5 different providers for internet and/or TV with prices starting at as little as $35 per month for unlimited internet at around 20mbps download speed. I can also choose online between Netflix, Amazon/LoveFilm, free demand services such as BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4OD, and paid on demand services that come with certain TV packages (SKY on demand). In the UK competition in this space has never looked better in my opinion. It always amazes me that America, the champion of the free market, has such a fucked up telecoms (and by extension TV) industry.
- spellboots 13y agoIf you're in the UK, Zen Internet now offer £25/month truly unlimited fibre broadband. ~80mbps down, ~20mbps up, no traffic shaping / AUP or anything. I am so happy with my internet right now.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoThanks for the tip - looks like fibre isn't available in my area yet though.
- tobylane 13y agoThe $35 includes most calls (all local and ten most-called/chosen national and mobile numbers are free on my package from the last three providers) and line rental. Add another $15 for TV licence. The competition here is from Local Loop Unbundling [1], where the non-ISP part of BT, BT Openreach, works on the exchanges and cabinets. Rollout stats [2], compare Scotland and London for the rural/city development. There's up to 9 choices in London, I would expect iPlayer would work on all of them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_Kingdom#Unbundled_local_loop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_Kingdom#... https://www.samknows.com/broadband/statistics/regional https://www.samknows.com/broadband/statistics/regional
- wpietri 13y agoYeah, it's ridiculous, even to this American. The best way I can explain it is that it's putting the accent more on "free" than on "market", and it's a 14-year-old's definition of free: "You can't make me do anything! YOU'RE NOT MY DAD!" However, I worry that the more accurate explanation is that it is a neofeudal structure cloaked in free-market terms.
- gobengo 13y agoGoogle is already positioning similarly with YouTube, Google Fiber, and plays for wireless service here and in floating balloons around the planet. Tripilolopopy
- samelawrence 13y agoFrom Tripoli to Gallipoli.
- midas007 13y agoNetflix can hardly be called a monopoly. I cancelled in 2013 because it had such a tiny catalog. Besides, if it doesn't equal bittorrent, what is an amoral person going to choose? I think I'll choose s/stealing/borrowing/.
- adnam 13y agoAmazon already have a film-on-demand service called LOVEFiLM.com.