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re: Amazon Prime Video will soon have ads
Posted on 9/24/23 at 12:16 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Posted on 9/24/23 at 12:16 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:We’ve been spoiled by technology in general. Smart people have given the keys to everyone, regardless of their ability to drive. — short rant over.
Because we’ve been spoiled to the point where we’re no longer happy with a huge library of free movies. We want every film and TV series ever made, available to us for $4.99 a month.
We’re now those people who would only rent from the New Releases shelf at Blockbuster, and scoffed at shopping through the general selections.
Posted on 9/24/23 at 2:25 pm to drizztiger
Even before streaming services were a thing, I heard people in the industry, talking about how we would have every conceivable movie or TV show available online. This was at least when blockbuster & Netflix were still sending out DVDs in the mail.
Sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? But the problem isn’t the technology as much as it is how to profit from it. Because that is the real fly in the ointment. It isn’t AI, as much as the writers on strike want us to believe. It’s about streaming services not wanting to show the actual numbers of who is watching these shows. Because to do so with crush their revenue scheme, which they use to sell ads.
As for Amazon, all they had to do was stick to the source, material of one particular author, and give us an authentic version of his world. But they could not help themselves. They wanted a “broader more international audience“ which is itself a load of rubbish. Now they are sinking underneath the weight Of their own virtue signaling hubris.
Sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? But the problem isn’t the technology as much as it is how to profit from it. Because that is the real fly in the ointment. It isn’t AI, as much as the writers on strike want us to believe. It’s about streaming services not wanting to show the actual numbers of who is watching these shows. Because to do so with crush their revenue scheme, which they use to sell ads.
As for Amazon, all they had to do was stick to the source, material of one particular author, and give us an authentic version of his world. But they could not help themselves. They wanted a “broader more international audience“ which is itself a load of rubbish. Now they are sinking underneath the weight Of their own virtue signaling hubris.
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