re: Sony in Talks to Join a Bid to Buy Paramount

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When is the DOJ going to start actually doing their job? All these mega mergers and acquisitions need to get shut down with a quickness

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But we all knew this was going to start happening at some point, didn't we? Having all of these myriad of competing streaming services with content spread all over the universe was never going to be sustainable. Eventually, there's going to be one or two, maaaybe three big players that are basically 80% of the market. And along with those, a few smaller players that have a got a model that allows them to stay in that part of the business. Everybody else will have been swallowed up by these survivors, or just vanished into the historical ether. I somehow doubt the DOJ is going to get involved.

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People legitimately thought you needed a PlayStation to use the service (PS Vue)

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Honestly, I didn't realize that wasn't the case until you pointed it out just now. I'm actually surprised. I figured their whole strategy was to use the Playstation as a vehicle for that service, perhaps one day making it mainstream. Talk about a marketing mistake!

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Sony in Talks to Join a Bid to Buy Paramount

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As a Paramount+ subscriber, I'm ok with this as long as we get whole Sony library dropped in as well. That would be a nice big boost. I even would be fine with the deal not quite going through, but the result being some sort of Sony Library/Paramount+ fusion for streaming only.