No New Streaming Services Will Launch in 2022
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Not only did CNN+ launch in 2022, it also folded in 2022.
Sometimes it gives me dopamine, sometimes it brings me knowledge, sometimes it allows me to express myself creatively and sometimes it allows me to consume other peoples creativity.
There's a distinct effect to knowledge inflation, and knowledge and skills are not the same though related. A lot of people who are, to use a loaded term, " Too Big for their Britches", but also a lot of people who how immense access to know their lot in life isn't good but without the skills or opportunities to actually make use of that.
For many streaming service, I can't even figure out if the support Linux (e.g. HBO does not explicitly state I can use their service with a browser on Linux). So, it makes no sense to sign up even if I thought it was worth the money.
Web browser is the standard API. And the viewing tool is Windows.
I know you wanna plug in your $20 to $50 dongle into an HDMI port and hope for the best, but your laptop will work fine, and I'm pretty sure your phone (Android / iOS) will also work fine.
> support Linux
Well there's another problem. Linux isn't a standard (Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu all have different quirks). By the time we start looking at those weird hardware codec accelerators and whether or not Linux supports those drivers, you would have been done with your Windows + HDMI port.
The old box office/TV rating systems were relatively public. Content producers had clear incentives and knew there was an advantage proportional to viewership.
On Amazon, lower quality episodes are available for $2 each for seasons 1 thru 3.
The seller wants $30 per season and you are looking to pay $3 to $5.
The seller is also offering $10 to rent 4 seasons assuming you binge watch 55 episodes in a month. Or $20 in 2 months, or $30 for 3 months if you watch one every other day.
Looks like the options are there, just not at the desired price.
That is great, an additional option for people that want to watch,
My point is people’s problem is not accessibility, it is price. When I was younger, accessibility itself was the problem, but that problem is resolved for almost all popular media now.
The whole time in the back of my mind I knew exactly where I could find it for free without any pain at all.
In my book if there's no legitimate way to get a digital copy then I'm sailing the high seas. The golden age of streaming is over.
You should be able to quickly reach at least one legal way to instantly pay and watch from the official content website.
Yet people pay >$10 per ~2 hour feature at the theater.
I see two — subscribe to Yet Another Streaming Service or buy. YASS is a non-starter for me (at my limit + subscription fatigue), and buying is out for me because seasons are priced for ownership/repeat viewing. IMO there's a significant pricing/packaging gap here.
That's how I treat it already. I subscribed to it for two shows, cancelled immediately after. They actually have other stuff I would like to watch, but their player/app is so awful that I was forced to go to pirate streams multiple times to watch what I paid for.
Now, I am slowly starting to face a very simple question with streaming. Do I want to maintain 3-4 active membership on the off chance something is there or do I just ask my buddy?
If it were not for my wife, Amazon would already be my only streaming service and even that only, because it is currently included.
I think my final straw was Dexter being locked behind Hulu's Showtime additional subscription. Just in case you are wondering, I did not ask my friend for it nor did I pay for it. Not yet anyway. I may have some free time coming in a couple of weeks to indulge.
Make it convenient for me. Make it goddamn one place. Do not try to nickel and dime me. You will lose. You are fighting against superior quality at zero price and with people, whose entire existence is collecting for no other reason than collecting.
You NEED to deliver minimum fuss to me. 20 streaming services is not minimum fuss.
Netflix was that. It had almost complete library, but you chose to blow it up in a panic of greed. Now, I don't care how you do it, but you ( media conglomerate ) better recognize this reality.
Signed.
At this time, still a customer.
edit: I forgot one more thing. Side bonus of moving back to piracy will be that my watching habits will not be up for sale to the highest bidder.
Speak for yourself. What about those in locations where access to various forms of media is prohibited? Or those who are in poverty/in impoverished areas?
Because they're unable to pay to access media forms they should be prevented from accessing them?
Has youtube killed Spotify's business? How about piratebay? Is Hollywood in shambles? P2p media sharing has been around forever and is still conveniently available, yet these industries persist and rake in. They've had little impact to the bottomlines of these industries and will likely continue to have little impact.
You could subscribe to Netflix/Hulu/Peacock/Disney and still come under a lot of cable bills.
I can easily search and watch anything outside of Netflix in the Apple’s TV app right now within seconds assuming I have no problem paying for it. Whether or not it is “fragmented” makes little difference in user experience.
(This methodology means you can be reasonably accurate for past years, but the current year and possibly recent years will miss services that will later get to 1M)
I wonder of Netflix could have done anything to keep being so far ahead and offer content from so many other companies, or was it always doomed to last just a few years before everyone and their grandma started a streaming service.
Letting Discovery acquire WB was one of the biggest mistakes they've ever made. Just imagine if Netflix had the HBO and WB slate. Game of Thrones, all of DC, Cartoon Network... HBO has the superior content lineup, and they let that slide through their fingers.
They should have bought the LotR rights. They still don't have a major fantasy, sci-fi, or superhero franchise outside of Stranger Things. And that universe is tiny.
Netflix, frankly, does not have content production as a core competency. Most of the shows and films they produce are terrible. Their in-fighting amongst top exec tastemakers is a testament to this fact.
You say this as if these rights were ever available for purchase. The studios are not dumb. They had the luxury of seeing what happened to the music industry. It was obvious that with the success of Netflix that streaming was the way forward. They also realized they were no where near capable of doing it on their own. When Netflix was first starting the streaming side, studios were still in the process of converting film assets into clean digital video. Streaming wasn't even a thought yet. However, monetize what you already have on the platform available now, and then do you're own thing later to keep all the profits.
Being the first is always harder than being the next as the trail has already be blazed for you. Studios had the blue print laid out by Netflix, but not all of them are as competent, and those issues show from app to app.
For example, Star Trek streaming was originally leased to Netflix, then when they eventually created Paramount+ they pulled out and put it on their own platform.
Netflix tried hard to get the LotR rights. Just about every major streamer did.
Building critically acclaimed cinematic universes is something everyone struggles with, except maybe Disney.
> Details picked up by the Daily Mail show that Netflix is paying £370 million (about $502 million) for the rights to Dahl's entire catalog. [2]
> At a budget of $200 million, Red Notice is Netflix's most expensive original film to date. [3]
Netflix chose poorly.
[1] https://www.thestreet.com/investing/who-owns-the-lord-of-the...
[2] https://www.polygon.com/22876640/netflix-roald-dahl-movies-a...
All of these major streaming companies are trying to get all of the best deals and never make a bad show or movie.
Road Dahl is probably going to work well for them.
can you clarify? My experience with HBOMax is not the content sucks but the service / site sucks so much it makes me actively not want to watch things. I'm continually offended just by how much it sucks.
Warner has recently been culling some of these poorly performing fits from HBO Max (arguably imperfectly), so they also recognize this.
I didn’t mean that people don’t enjoy HBO’s good programs.
But the Discovery boss recently claimed he wants more "comfort" programming than "destination tv", and that's a horrible sign. It signals they're leaning into more Honey Boo Boo and Ice Road Truckers-type content instead of Game of Thrones, Euphoria, Silicon Valley because it's cheaper to make.
ATT had already fired all the old HBO bosses that made and green lot all the great HBO shows.
They have The Witcher, which is quite big.
It was always doomed. There's only so far you can go with streaming services from a tech POV. Once you have a system that's fairly reliable at delivering the content, it's the content that matters, not the tech.
Its a license war
Next year: streaming services are being aquired to kill competition, or pushed into bankruptcy!
That’s been happening already (e.g., Discovery/Warner)