Too many internet streaming sites

[staggmovie]

Just in the last week Disney finally debut their internet streaming service called Disney Plus or if you prefer Disney + with the + sign instead of the word, and there is word of other streaming sites on the internet that are soon to come. Disney Plus got 10 millions subscribers right on the first day, which I am sure that Netflix can no longer if they were doing streaming their movies on their stream, as Netflix also has movies on dvd and blu-ray for people that want it that way. Are there getting to be too many internet streaming sites where you can stream movies and tv shows on whatever device you want to stream them to, without even having a disc in your hand, and you put the disc in either your blurry player, or dvd player, or if you have a combo dvd and vcr, or a tv with a built in dvd player? Where blu-ray can play blurry disc and regular dvd as well, where a regular dvd player can't play a blu-ray disc. But what are your thoughts on having all these internet streaming sites that you have to pay to stream movies and tv shows, without having a disc in your hand to play in a player where you can watch a movie or tv show the old fashioned way.

 

[gr8oldies]

Basically, you have your old cable bill you thought you were avoiding back, except you're paying 10 separate bills instead of one.

Just in the last week Disney finally debut their internet streaming service called Disney Plus or if you prefer Disney + with the + sign instead of the word, and there is word of other streaming sites on the internet that are soon to come. Disney Plus got 10 millions subscribers right on the first day, which I am sure that Netflix can no longer if they were doing streaming their movies on their stream, as Netflix also has movies on dvd and blu-ray for people that want it that way. Are there getting to be too many internet streaming sites where you can stream movies and tv shows on whatever device you want to stream them to, without even having a disc in your hand, and you put the disc in either your blurry player, or dvd player, or if you have a combo dvd and vcr, or a tv with a built in dvd player? Where blu-ray can play blurry disc and regular dvd as well, where a regular dvd player can't play a blu-ray disc. But what are your thoughts on having all these internet streaming sites that you have to pay to stream movies and tv shows, without having a disc in your hand to play in a player where you can watch a movie or tv show the old fashioned way.

 

[TheBigA]

Are there getting to be too many internet streaming sites where you can stream movies and tv shows on whatever device you want to stream them to,

That's what economists call a free marketplace. Some politicians believe "big tech" needs to be broken up. That would mean even MORE sites for content. There are as many sites as the marketplace can support. The minute the economy can't support them all, they'll start consolidating. Then some politician will say the remaining sites need to be broken up to create competition.

 

[Don CT]

This is the ala-cart people were begging for. Now that we have it people are complaining.

 

[landtuna]

This is the ala-cart people were begging for. Now that we have it people are complaining.

No, the ala-cart people were begging for was to be able to subscribe to individual services, not independent streams or tiers.

 

[CTListener]

n/m posted to wrong thread

 

[nomadcowatbk]

subscribing to all the services will cost more than cable, but it's easier to cancel them if you don't need them every month

 

[landtuna]

subscribing to all the services will cost more than cable, but it's easier to cancel them if you don't need them every month

My guess is that, once the streamers figure out they are being churned they will institute a minimum subscription period just like they did in the good old days of satellite.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...uld-blow-up-hollywood-s-streaming-era-1256088

There's a joke circulating these days, and it isn't particularly funny: Millions of people are ditching cable because the bill is too high and no one can watch all that programming. But then everyone is signing up for one pricey digital TV app after another. The punchline is that the future of TV doesn't look particularly different from the past.

There's some truth to that, and there's a new power dynamic in play at the dawn of the streaming era that could make the future of TV both very different from and very similar to the television industry of the past.

For years, TV broadcasters enjoyed most of the leverage in so-called "carriage" negotiations, able to extract ever-increasing sums of money from cable companies like Comcast and satellite operators like DirecTV for rights to carry programming. But by 2021, about 50 million people will have dropped cable and satellite TV subscriptions, according to eMarketer. That's about a fifth of the adult population who will be cord-cutters.

Many of these consumers are shifting to digital outlets like Netflix and Disney+, which launched Nov. 12 with a reported 10 million sign-ups. These subscription video sites may go "over the top," bypassing traditional providers, but that doesn't mean there aren't intermediaries. In many respects, Roku, Amazon Fire, Google Chromecast and other digital TV devices are becoming the new middlemen between the streaming apps with all the programming and the consumers who still appreciate having a menu when eating at a buffet.

Here we go.