Studios shouldn’t own channels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.
The Paramount Decree was repealed in Trump I. In any case it isn’t relevant, as it dealt with a monopoly situation where one company controlled the distribution and exhibition for a territory. This isn’t the case for streaming as the consumer can choose between several services.
Ultimately it doesn’t matter if consumers can choose between different services if the services don’t have the same “content” due to exclusive rights.
That’s legally irrelevant.
For now. Studios owning cinemas was also legally irrelevant until it wasn’t.
It was not irrelevant, as one studio would control the only cinema accessible in an area.
Unless studios become ISPs which have monopoly in a town say, and block all but their own streaming service, the concept of monopoly is irrelevant.
They bet big on streaming … by putting up edited versions of classics and shitting out a bunch of low quality garbage to flesh out the more modern content.
They deserve to lose ground, and their copyrights on everything they clearly do not respect.
Disney+ is a C tier streaming service priced like an A tier service.
its the fanboi streaming service. their main draw is the ip they bought.
It probably good for kids.
But I would take Peacock or Paramount Plus over Disney+, and they’re both pretty shit.
Starz is the only streaming service I’ve used that was worse than Disney+.
We’re in a post consumer economy where the big companies don’t really care what their customers want and creative projects are run by boardrooms and green flagged based on how similar they seem to other projects that have been profitable in the past rather than creativity or innovation.
At least movies are sort of still aimed at consumers unlike tech companies which seem to be mainly creating products to collect and sell consumer data or sell ads rather than serve a useful purpose to users.
Or the hardware side of tech just abandoning the consumer market entirely to sell to AI companies. You want RAM? Fuck you, go rent some from Nvidia
I can’t remember the last new thing I saw that wasn’t basically “thing that already existed but with ads now.”
Maybe they should’ve made a not-completely-shite streaming service then.
A big part of it is that they pay way below market. It attracts a lot of people that should be fired, but usually aren’t. They have some talented, and genuinely good people there, but they are outnumbered.
