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The video streaming wars are this years version of last years cable
channel bundling. Everyone knows the game the cablecos play where they
bundle 14 channels of crap with one channel that people actually want
and because it's 15 channels, hey, well that's going to cost
$20.99/mo., you know, because you are getting 15 channels! Oh, no,
sorry, no way to get just that one channel you want for just it's cost.
You need to buy all 15.
How many streaming services is the average consumer going to have to
start subscribing to for $10-20/mo. each to get all of the content they
want?
Or, as I (and I am sure others have) predict(ed), while consumers were
willing to pay a modest amount of money for a streaming service or two
to get all of the content they wanted, consumers are going to reject
the skyrocketing costs of the streaming fragmentation and go back to
the same solution they had for the high costs of cable channel
bundling. Welcome back piracy.
Cheers,
b.
Once upon a time, Brian J. Murrell <brian@interlinx.bc.ca> said:
The video streaming wars are this years version of last years cable
channel bundling. Everyone knows the game the cablecos play where they
bundle 14 channels of crap with one channel that people actually want
and because it's 15 channels, hey, well that's going to cost
$20.99/mo., you know, because you are getting 15 channels! Oh, no,
sorry, no way to get just that one channel you want for just it's cost.
You need to buy all 15.
Most of that is at the behest of the content providers, like Disney.
Want to carry Disney Movies? You have to carry ESPN-U in the same
package. So... now those very same content providers are trying to cut
out the middle-man of the linear TV (cable, sat, IPTV) providers, and
recreate the same bundling.