<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This started under the Cable regime, People were complaining about having to buy channel bundles instead of simply choosing the channels they wanted to subscribe to.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 28, 2019, at 11:33 , Ross Tajvar <<a href="mailto:ross@tajvar.io" class="">ross@tajvar.io</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Well, not exactly. Each service is still a bunch of shows and movies bundled together. If you only want to watch one show, you can't just buy that, you have to buy the whole service.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Of course, there are services where you can buy individual movies and episodes (Google Play comes to mind). But Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, etc. don't operate that way.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">-Ross </div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 1:53 PM Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">While I agree about the likely outcome, I will point out that consumers have been<br class="">
begging for unbundling for years.<br class="">
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This fragmentation of streaming services _IS_ the direct result of that request.<br class="">
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It’s unbundled service, exactly what they have been asking for.<br class="">
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Owen<br class="">
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> On Nov 26, 2019, at 01:54 , Mark Tinka <<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">mark.tinka@seacom.mu</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> On 12/Nov/19 22:36, Brian J. Murrell wrote:<br class="">
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>> I actually suspect streaming is going to decline (at least in<br class="">
>> comparison to where it could have grown to) if this streaming service<br class="">
>> fragmentation continues.<br class="">
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>> I think people are going to reject the idea that they need to subscribe<br class="">
>> to a dozen streaming services at $10-$20/mo. each and will be driven<br class="">
>> back the good old "single source" (piracy) they used to use before 1<br class="">
>> (or perhaps 2) streaming services kept them happy enough to abandon<br class="">
>> piracy.<br class="">
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>> The content providers are going to piss in their bed again due to<br class="">
>> greed. Again.<br class="">
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> This!<br class="">
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> At the beginning of this year, I dumped Prime Video because while I<br class="">
> initially got it for "The Grand Tour", almost all the other content was<br class="">
> not available in Africa. Didn't see the point of shelling out over<br class="">
> US$100/year for just one show, especially since we already have Netflix<br class="">
> + a local linear pay TV service.<br class="">
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> I bought the wife a new iPhone 11 Pro earlier this month. This got us<br class="">
> 1-year's worth of free AppleTV+. Not a lot of content so far, but I hear<br class="">
> the same about Disney+. Granted 2 of the 3 shows on TV+ are not bad. But<br class="">
> it's free, so what the heck.<br class="">
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> I'm not keen on paying for more than one streaming service, if I'm<br class="">
> honest. There already isn't enough time in the world for regular life,<br class="">
> never mind watching one streaming service... now we have to deal with<br class="">
> more, each with their own price? Not sure how well the streaming<br class="">
> providers expect regular folk to take all of this fragmentation.<br class="">
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> As my daughter would say, "They can miss me with it :-)".<br class="">
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> Mark.<br class="">
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