Solution: create a common platform for all online services (Netflix, Paramount, Disney, Warner, …) and have EVERYTHING there, even old movies and not often seen ones.
Can we have a la carte payments back? I don’t pirate movies/tv because I barely watch any movies/tv, but the only time in the past year I paid for one was when I could rent it for 48h for $4. I hate subscriptions and would rather just pay once per every time I watch.
It’s the exclusive deals that fuel the fragmentation. If you could watch the same content on any streaming service, you wouldn’t need to subscribe to a half dozen (or turn to piracy).
Of course that’s exactly why Netflix, Prime, Apple, et al started making their own exclusive content that they totally control.
I’m always surprised when people propose monopolies as if a) they’re good, and b) that’s not what everyone in the game right now is trying to provide.
Everyone wants to be the one collecting the subscription fee. No one wants to be the one trusting the guy collecting the subscription fee to give them a fair cut.
It’s almost as if there are already publicly-funded organizations that do EXACTLY that but you are disingenuously pretending there aren’t because you’re one of those Stockholm syndrome-infected Americans that votes for people who underfund public programs then pretend that they fail because they are poorly run.
Solution: create a common platform for all online services (Netflix, Paramount, Disney, Warner, …) and have EVERYTHING there, even old movies and not often seen ones.
And also remove Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)
So basically just cable but for the internet age.
Yeah, but they all want to be the one to run it.
In the meantime, there’s Jellyfin.
I’ve got a platform like that!
like socialism.
Can we have a la carte payments back? I don’t pirate movies/tv because I barely watch any movies/tv, but the only time in the past year I paid for one was when I could rent it for 48h for $4. I hate subscriptions and would rather just pay once per every time I watch.
And you know what would be good? Your subscription money will be divided equally between everything you watched that month.
If they want your money, they better make high quality show that’s actually interesting.
Let them fight each other for our subscription money.
It’s the exclusive deals that fuel the fragmentation. If you could watch the same content on any streaming service, you wouldn’t need to subscribe to a half dozen (or turn to piracy).
Of course that’s exactly why Netflix, Prime, Apple, et al started making their own exclusive content that they totally control.
I’m always surprised when people propose monopolies as if a) they’re good, and b) that’s not what everyone in the game right now is trying to provide.
Everyone wants to be the one collecting the subscription fee. No one wants to be the one trusting the guy collecting the subscription fee to give them a fair cut.
It’s almost as if there are already publicly-funded organizations that do EXACTLY that but you are disingenuously pretending there aren’t because you’re one of those Stockholm syndrome-infected Americans that votes for people who underfund public programs then pretend that they fail because they are poorly run.