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It’s “shakeout” time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5 billion | Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers. (arstechnica.com)
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It’s “shakeout” time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5 billion | Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers.::Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Netflix 10 years ago also got amazing deals because most studio executives didn't understand streaming and just saw it as some additional money on top of broadcast, DVD, and syndication. Those revenue streams are mostly gone.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's so good when executives and investors don't get new stuff, so they don't come along to squeeze every single penny out of it and choke it to death.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe, but I still want good new stuff.

    And it isn't like executives and investors won't still get rich on making new stuff, they will just cheaper and shittier new stuff.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    That’s part of my point. They don’t have to lift a finger. Just let Netflix pay for the storage, the data centers, the bandwidth. Studios will get something out of it for doing literally nothing. But they got greedy and broke the model.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    For their old stuff, sure.

    But I'm thinking of new movies and TV shows. What kinds of movies can be made a decade from now?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    That model may also be dead. Nobody really sees movies anymore, not like before, and nobody wants to wait 6 months for the season to end. That’s very much a 1950s - 2010 model. Not sure what will replace it, but some combination of games and informal content like YouTube/TikTok etc might be where we end up.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, and that is what I'm concerned about.

    Is that good?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yup. Netflix was icing on the cake that was cable. Now streaming is becoming the cake. The cost or revenue of the cake needs to be the same for the biz to run.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I’m referring specifically to older content. Is there really a reason that Star Trek the Next Generation shouldn’t be in Netflix, for example? Paramount isn’t enough of an offer so they may be losing out on a great deal of passive income.

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