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Originally Posted by Horizon
Possibly, take a look here:
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/ste...om-1202876000/
Pay tv and streaming services have roughly the same amount of subscribers at 15m each in Britain.
What that article shows is that while most of those streaming subscribers also have a pay tv service, a third of them have cancelled their premium pay tv service.
If Sky, BT and VM are allowed to bundle and integrate streamers into their pay tv services, that should offset the losses from the decline of channel bundles and keep costs down - hopefully! |
I wouldn't be optimistic that the market for streaming services will sustain a number of providers on top of those that are already there.
There has to come a maximum, and whether there's enough space for everyone to make profits at the level they currently do I'd say is questionable.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Wow! I think that the likes of BT and Virgin Media will appreciate the better value that they will be able to offer by way of packaging streaming services.
I am not sure whether Sky will actually welcome it, but I think they get the drift.
I think that you are concentrating too heavily on downsides and not properly considering the upsides!
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I'm still yet to see the benefits.
People who can't afford a Now TV subscription might be able to buy a separate inferior service just to qualify as having pay-tv?
I'm 100% certain if I had to pay separate subscriptions to see the content I do now from Sky, Viacom, Disney, etc. There wouldn't be massive injections of cash into the market from people who don't currently subscribe to pay-tv. They'd all be fighting for the same small pot outside the existing subscriber bases.