.... and another legal route will be Sky's "cable" service when it launches next year, as long as your broadband connection is decent enough.
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
I'm not reading that the same as you Old Boy , I'm reading that as they see Netflix now positioning itself as a Premium channel in the sense of an HBO however On Demand rather than linear. Let's face it Netflix wants its service to be available on pay tv providers boxes , it's all ready available on Virgin and Youview and would love to be on Sky. In the USA it's struck a deal with Comcast and is available on Dish Network.
With must see Originals it appeals more to pay tv providers , more than it did when it was just merely a catalogue of older boxsets of shows.
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That's right.
Netflix has been saying for ages that they want to be like HBO's "channel."
Netflix knew that in the future as their popularity increased, they would get squeezed by the major media companies which would make the cost of buying in tv and films from others too high. Hence why they went down the route of making their own stuff.
But of course the whole point of Netflix is to watch films and tv from various different companies all in one place.
Whether their strategy works out in the long run, remains to be see.