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Originally Posted by muppetman11
With the end result people paying far more.
A Now TV Cinema pass subscriber can get it for £11.99 normal or even less if they shop around for passes and 3/6 month deals.
Under this new world you'll need a Sky sub (Universal) , HBO Max (Warner) , Disney + (Disney) plus whatever the likes of Paramount and Sony decide to do.
Good luck at getting that in anyway near a tenner and there are many who like to watch movies from across the studios.
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Each streaming service will offer a wealth of programming and will be good value for money.
I don't buy the argument that everyone will be obliged to subscribe to every streaming service imaginable. That would be a waste of money because even if you spent every waking hour watching TV, you would never be able to make much headway in getting through all that content.
I understand what you are saying about some people wishing to watch films from different studios. However, most people I would suggest would achieve that by switching streamers periodically. There are no contracts locking you in, and so it will be pretty easy to do this.
I dare say there will also be free versions of many of these streamers, funded by advertising, in the fullness of time. There seems to be a large sector of the population who would not mind sitting through unskippable advertisements, particularly if they are targeted.
Needless to say, I am not one of them. I have just taken up a YouTube Music subscription, and it is such a relief not to have these commercials interrupting everything.
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Originally Posted by jfman
I didn't say the platform was untested, I said the business model was. It remains to be seen whether Disney retailing direct to consumers makes more profit than their wholesale distribution models.
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Hmm.
No, because not every business is a success, failure is a possibility. Some may find themselves coming cap in hand to existing platforms or other streaming services to bundle their content.
The perfect example of this is Eleven Sports / La Liga. They believed a market was there for a product that simply wasn't.
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There might be a market for it, but not having a platform like Sky or Virgin to broadcast from, they were sunk.
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Originally Posted by jfman
Hmm.
No, because not every business is a success, failure is a possibility. Some may find themselves coming cap in hand to existing platforms or other streaming services to bundle their content.
The perfect example of this is Eleven Sports / La Liga. They believed a market was there for a product that simply wasn't.
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There might be a market for it, but not having a platform like Sky or Virgin to broadcast from, they were sunk.