re: Time Warner Wants to Gut Hulu?

Posted by H-Town Tiger

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Posted on 2/4/16 at 6:24 pm to Breesus

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Quit reading

Cute, then you shouldn't have asked who watches ESPN.

Posted by CocomoLSU

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Posted on 2/4/16 at 7:27 pm to Freauxzen

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And I have no problem paying that. It isn't all about cost for me, it's convenience and efficiency. It should be a little cheaper because I'm not always consuming content over the wire, and I don't want to rent technology, but yeah, it can be $100 for Netflix if they had Cable levels of content, and new stuff.

But you're still the exception, IMO. I feel like the trend is people wanting more access for less, to the point of getting it as cheap as possible, and free if at all possible.

And the content holders will never let that happen as long as they have the content and the money to fight it.

And you (and some in here) understand that if cable went away, Netflix wouldn't be $12 a month anymore or whatever, but I really think a lot of people don't get that....because they think they should be able to get access to whatever they want, however they want. For free (or cheap). And that's just not feasible.

Posted by Freauxzen

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Posted on 2/4/16 at 7:53 pm to CocomoLSU

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But you're still the exception, IMO. I feel like the trend is people wanting more access for less, to the point of getting it as cheap as possible, and free if at all possible.

And the content holders will never let that happen as long as they have the content and the money to fight it.

And you (and some in here) understand that if cable went away, Netflix wouldn't be $12 a month anymore or whatever, but I really think a lot of people don't get that....because they think they should be able to get access to whatever they want, however they want. For free (or cheap). And that's just not feasible.

So Step 1 Steal Underpants.
Step 2 Inform the uninformed that content costs money
Step 3
Step 4 - Profit?

Posted by CocomoLSU

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Posted on 2/4/16 at 8:45 pm to Freauxzen

It's not informing them as much as it's convincing them that they will have to pay for what they want, in one way or another.

Posted by Dr RC

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Posted on 2/4/16 at 9:01 pm to TeddyPadillac

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So what's going to happen to SlingTV? Why is ESPN letting them offer all of those channels for $25/month, on top of the other 20 channels they offer?

ESPN put in their deal that if Sling goes over 3 million customers they are allowed to yank the channel off the service.

They are only using Sling to get people w/o cable right now. If they suddenly lost 90+ million cable subs you can damn sure bet they would be forced to jack up what they charge an streaming service to have them on their package.

Posted by Dr RC

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Posted on 2/4/16 at 9:03 pm to Freauxzen

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ESPN's expansion was due to the cable model, as the market shifts, so will their revenue model. You won't need 10 channels because you don't need a literal "channel" for streamed content.

Their current deals are for certain amounts of content to air on specific channels. They cant just rip up all the various contracts they have with the different sports leagues and say its all one big streaming channel on the net.

Posted by Dr RC

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Posted on 2/4/16 at 9:13 pm to Breesus

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You pay Hulu to air your ad. You don't pick which show it airs on.

uhh, that aint true at all.

they still do targeted advertising on Hulu.

if you watch on streaming box like Roku the ads are based off your viewing history.

if you watch on your computer it goes by your browsing history.

This post was edited on 2/4/16 at 9:14 pm