Thread: VOD Netflix/Streaming Services
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Old 10-08-2016, 10:09   #2915
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by Horizon View Post
.... it's like DVD regions all over again.

As I alluded to yesterday, either the US studios adapt or die. But their whole business is based on having multiple tv channels in the US and doing deals with various broadcasters all over the world. Can they really undo all that (and in a timely way) to put everything on a streaming platform of their own available to everyone worldwide? Do they even want to?
In the end, it will be down to customers. If, like some of the esteemed posters on here, the US audience is happy with the ad filled, schedule driven multi channel system, then that system will survive.

If, however, in sufficient numbers, they wake up to the new way of doing things and experience an ad free on demand environment and get to like it, then the current multi channel system will be unsustainable.
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