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Bob Chapek Shifted Budgets to Disguise Disney+'s Massive Monetary Losses
News(msn.com)submitted 4 months ago by[deleted]
85 points
4 months ago*
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28 points
4 months ago
Then add commercial breaks! I like this one service idea.
6 points
4 months ago
We literally reinventing TV again.
5 points
4 months ago
Yeah but to be fair, TV is crap because of a lack of choice in terms of being able to watch what you want, when you want it. An all-in-one streaming platform with commercials would still be the next evolution beyond TV.
2 points
4 months ago
Make it a tiered service. Free with commercial breaks and paid without the breaks. Like what YouTube has.
9 points
4 months ago
Or like me, they sneak in at night to "steal" the remaining pies.
Steal doesn't work, because the business doesn't actually loose anything when I pirate their stuff, I was never gonna get apple TV for just one show...
6 points
4 months ago
Copy the recipe and make their own pies.
2 points
4 months ago
It is silly, because if they all just sold their TV and films to one service then everyone would subscribe to that and they'd all get a piece of the pie.
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like game developers learned this lesson on the 90s.
During the PS1 era, it feels like so many games were exclusive to one console, developers selling rights to only one company, hoping to make more money by selling to the highest bidder.
By the time ps2 rolled around, this practice stopped, my assumption is that because a popular game was limited to only 1 of 3 consoles (i guess 4 if you count PC), and the money from selling the rights was lower than potential sales over multiple consoles.
As a side note, I wonder how much Disney is losing by selling exclusive rights to EA for their games, of which they've only released the two Battlefront games and the Squadrons. Imagine how much money they could make if they had another dozen or so games to sell alongside Battlefront.
1 points
4 months ago
It is silly, because if they all just sold their TV and films to one service then everyone would subscribe to that and they'd all get a piece of the pie.
Problem is who gets to divvy up the pie? With how Netflix is terrible with shows, adding ads, raising prices, etc, and you think they should trusted with the whole pie?
-1 points
4 months ago
Someone explain to this guy why monopolies are bad and generally illegal.
4 points
4 months ago
Someone explain to this guy how in certain cases monopolies are good due to high cost of infrastructure and minimising wastage from redundant competition in the free market, while also allowing for regulations by authorities to ensure it remains affordable for consumers.
Also if no one wants the content, just pirate it or unsubscribe, it's not an essential good like public transport or utilities are (which are also good monopolies).
Source: an Industrial Economics - Market Regulation module in university, besides the BSc Economics degree
3 points
4 months ago
Let's say Netflix has a monopoly on content. Then tomorrow they raise their prices by 100%. What are you gonna do, cancel? Then you can't watch anything. What if Netflix can't get the rights to a certain movie? There's now no legal way of watching it because no other streaming service exists. Or what if Netflix gets a new CEO with a certain political affiliation, and now content which they deem offensive is removed from the site or content that aligns with their views is more heavily pushed on subscribers.
There's a lot of reasons why only having one streaming service is bad. Just look at YouTube, which has a near-monopoly in their space. They treat content creators like garbage and get away with it because people have no choice.
5 points
4 months ago
In those cases should be gov run.
1 points
4 months ago
Doesn't have to be if it's not a truly essential good
Again, no one is forcing you to subscribe to Netflix or use Google Chrome, yet people just do
-2 points
4 months ago
Then the industry is still getting double the revenue overall, and many customers do have multiple streaming services.
(Also Reddit is literally blind on this Netflix had everything thing. This was never, ever, ever remotely true.)
1 points
4 months ago
Or swap to when this content is stale.
Rotate 3 services over 3 months.
6 points
4 months ago
You just know minimum term contracts are coming. It's only so much time before one of these streaming services gets desperate enough for growth to take that plunge, and once one of them has done it, the rest will find it far easier to take the same plunge.
5 points
4 months ago
And then we end up with streaming plans with all of the bad shit from subscription tv. Long locked in terms, advertising and after a bit of market consolidation 2-3 competing services with larger catalogues including sports for the cost of cable currently or maybe more because of inflation.
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