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Streaming about to get very expensive
(This article is from the UK, but applies here as well)
Streaming TV is about to get very expensive – here's why With Disney, Apple and others about to launch their own services, a lot of your favourite shows are likely to vanish behind paywalls. The golden age of streaming is over Stuart Heritage The most watched show on US Netflix, by a huge margin, is the US version of The Office. Even though the platform pumps out an absurd amount of original programming – 1,500 hours last year – it turns out that everyone just wants to watch a decade-old sitcom. One report last year said that The Office accounts for 7% all US Netflix viewing. So, naturally, NBC wants it back. This week, it was announced that Netflix had failed to secure the rights to The Office beyond January 2021. The good news is that it will still be available to watch elsewhere. The bad news is that “elsewhere”, means “the new NBCUniversal streaming platform”. Is the end of Netflix's golden age in sight? As a viewer, you are right to feel queasy. The industry-disrupting success of Netflix means that everybody wants a slice of the pie. Right now, things are just about manageable – if you have a TV licence, a Netflix subscription, an Amazon subscription and a Now TV subscription, you are pretty much covered – but things are about to take a turn for the worse. In November, Disney will launch Disney+, a streaming platform that will not only block off an enormous amount of existing content (Disney films, ABC shows, Marvel and Pixar films, Lucasfilm, The Simpsons and everything else made by 20th Century Fox), but will also offer a range of new scripted Marvel shows that will directly inform the narrative of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Essentially, if you want to understand anything that happens in any Marvel film from this point onwards, you’ll need to splash out on a Disney+ subscription. Apple will also be entering the streaming market at about the same time, promising new work from Sofia Coppola, Jennifer Aniston, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Brie Larson, Damien Chazelle and Steven Spielberg. In the next three years, Apple will spend $4.2bn on original programming, and you won’t get to see any of it if you don’t pay a monthly premium. There are so many others. NBCUniversal is pulling its shows from Netflix for its own platform. Before long, Friends is likely to disappear behind a new WarnerMedia streaming service – along with Lord of the Rings films, the Harry Potter films, anything based on a DC comic and everything on HBO – that it is believed will cost about £15 a month. In the UK, the BBC and ITV will amalgamate their archives behind a service called BritBox. The former Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg is about to launch a platform called Quibi, releasing “snackable” content from Steven Spielberg and others that is designed to be watched on your phone. YouTube is producing more and more original subscription-only content. Facebook is making shows, for crying out loud. And this sucks. Watching television is about to get very, very expensive. There will be a point where viewers are going to hit their tolerance for monthly subscriptions – I may be able to manage one more service, but only if I unsubscribe from an existing platform – meaning that TV will become more elitist, tiered and fragmented than it already is. There’s a huge difference between not being able to watch everything because there’s too much choice and not being able to watch everything because you don’t have enough money. Most importantly, we should all remember that this content war is hinged upon a fundamental misunderstanding of viewing habits. Netflix didn’t become a monster because people wanted to watch a specific show; it became a monster because people wanted to watch everything. When its streaming platform launched, people were spending more than £15 just to watch a single season of a show on DVD. So to be able to watch every season of a show – and every season of hundreds of others of shows – for a fiver a month was revolutionary. The whole point of Netflix was that it was a relatively affordable bucket that contained an awful lot of television. That’s why people liked it. That’s why so many people subscribed and continue to subscribe. To pretend otherwise is to miss the point. That will be a memory soon. The Netflix model was great for viewers, but it couldn’t last. The content creators got greedy and scared, and now they’re determined to drag things back to the bad old ways. They will force everyone to pay for everything separately, and the subscriber base will split, and the providers will have to recoup the money they are spending to take on Netflix – such as the $500m that NBCUniversal spent to get The Office back, the $250m Amazon is spending on a Lord of the Rings series and the $500m that Warner just spent to win the services of JJ Abrams – which means that subscriptions will rise. Make no mistake: we’re the ones likely to get stiffed here. The golden age of television may be going strong, but the golden age of streaming is dead. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...sive-heres-why |
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07-01-2019, 10:41 AM | #4 |
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So when can I watch The World's Strongest Man and Gus???
Millennials take note Internet connection 130.00 Netflix 20.00 Disney 40.00 Hulu 20.00 whatever 30.00 240.00 for cord cutting. Yeah-you are really saving money.
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07-01-2019, 10:45 AM | #5 |
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People just won't pay for the shit, it's that simple. A-la-carte streaming services were partly popular because people were tired f being raped by cable companies.
Fact is, there's only so much money to go around. Just because Disney and NBC want to bury their content behind their own subscription doesn't mean im going to pay for it. It just means i'll stop watching their content. And IF i just have to see it:
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Lol yeah no. Nextflix is $15. Disney, Hulu and whatever are completely unnecessary. That's the whole point of cord cutting. You pick the content based on your budget.
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07-01-2019, 10:47 AM | #7 |
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Then there are limits on some. Netflix will go up. But if you want all of the other options and shows, you have to pay for the services that provide them. How much is HBO streaming???
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They can spend as little as $55 for internet (in some cases, less). And then they can add whatever content based on what's in their budget. Want Netflix AND HBO? Great. $85 total. And you can watch your sports in HD off Reddit.
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07-01-2019, 11:01 AM | #12 |
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People might watch a lot of TV, but there is very little that anybody will pay for on its own. And if you want that you can buy the physical media, which you will own forever.
Sports is one of the only things people will pay for on its own, which is why the cable companies spend unreal amounts of money to hold on to live sports. How many more cord-cutters would there be without sports? That's probably the only thing keeping them afloat. |
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Ok my net is 130 but that is a jacked up number because I pay an extra 50 to be uncapped...
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Subscriptions can be cancelled and picked back up. SlingTV has tiers that, combined, would be over $100. But you pick and choose, cancel one and add another, one month at a time.
It's the exact model that people wanted, and it was always going to cost more, but it's better than the old version of "pay me $150/month and have everything".
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