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darkbuster posted...

It's not weird or even slightly surprising, if you think about it. Netflix got into the market because no one saw how profitable it could be, making all your shows easily available online. Once high speed internet was widespread enough that the barrier of entry was low, the content providers eventually began to see how they could do what Netflix & Hulu were doing, but keep all the money from it, instead of licensing their content to someone else. From there, every company that could, has tried to be their own little content fiefdom. There's really nothing truly to distinguish them from each other, besides what content they have, so you have attempt to bolster their libraries by acquiring other content, such as Disney acquiring Fox & Apple TV buying the rights to the Charlie Brown special. From there, all the content you actually want to watch is divided across multiple services, leaving you essentially paying multiple subscriptions if you want to watch "everything". Really, the only thing I'm surprised about, is that the concept of aggregate services such as VRV haven't caught on, which would have completely brought us full circle to what is essentially cable.

Of course it was easy to predict, but streaming is becoming what customers left cable over. The reason for the switch was because all their favorite things were in a more affordable package in one or two locations. It won't be long before another shift happens, in my opinion.

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