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Neither Good Omens nor Game of Thrones are available for streaming
on Netflix (you'll have to go to one of their competitors). Overall
I tend to agree with Brian that people's time and eyeballs are
finite. As more streaming services emerge, usage will simply be
split between streaming providers. There might be a slight increase
in overall streaming usage due to the effect you mentioned (more
content available for a wider audience than in previous years), but
I don't expect it to be an overnight change for our industry.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Matthew Petach wrote on 11/12/2019 2:53
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<div dir="auto">Now the parents can be watching "Good Omens" or
"Game of Thrones" on Netflix while the kids are streaming "The
Lion King" on Disney+ streaming. Instead of the whole family
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<div dir="auto">End result is more total overall bandwidth
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 12:38
Brian J. Murrell <<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca"
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2019-11-12 at 15:26 -0500, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:<br>
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> I can foresee a lot of families subscribing to Netflix
*and* Disney+<br>
> because neither one has all the content the family wants
to watch.<br>
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Absolutely. But the time spent watching Disney would
*replace* (not be<br>
in addition to, or would it? Would Disney's content result in
existing<br>
streamers watching more hours of streaming than they did
before?)<br>
Netflix watching.<br>
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> Has anybody seen a significant drop in total streaming
traffic due to<br>
> Netflix<br>
> users jumping ship to Amazon/Hulu, or are consumers just
biting the<br>
> bullet,<br>
> coughing up the $$, and streaming more total because
across the<br>
> services<br>
> there's more stuff they want to watch?<br>
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I actually suspect streaming is going to decline (at least in<br>
comparison to where it could have grown to) if this streaming
service<br>
fragmentation continues.<br>
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I think people are going to reject the idea that they need to
subscribe<br>
to a dozen streaming services at $10-$20/mo. each and will be
driven<br>
back the good old "single source" (piracy) they used to use
before 1<br>
(or perhaps 2) streaming services kept them happy enough to
abandon<br>
piracy.<br>
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The content providers are going to piss in their bed again due
to<br>
greed. Again.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
b.<br>
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