Also, this is only extremely tangentially related, but I don’t have anyone else to complain to, so… I think Amazon is nuts to have introduced ads to their Prime material and then demanded viewers pay a special fee not to see them. That’s TERRIBLE consumer psychology. They could have raised their rates and I would have grumbled a bit but paid it. But now it feels like I’m being held hostage for three bucks a month, which makes me feel resentful and unwilling to pay. And the net effect is that I’ve stopped watching Prime material completely. And I might just ditch it for something like Paramount+ or Max.
It really is remarkable how bad every streaming app is except Netflix. Like, how do you hop into streaming a decade late and make an app that's basically useless?
What's been interesting is seeing these studios begin licensing their shows and movies back to Netflix, reversing decision on making their studios into gated neighborhoods where you need to pay a subscription fee to enter.
I think Sony is the ultimate winner of the streaming war. They've quietly licensed out their shows and movies to the big streaming services (sometimes several at once) while never investing the hundreds of millions into developing their own streaming service.
Rather than dump all that money into a terrible app that barely works, they've just been making money with their libraries. Also, hilariously, their competition in the gaming space is Microsoft, a trillion dollar company, that can't seem to win. Microsoft could BUY Sony for far less money than it would cost to compete with them, but instead Sony just drinks their milkshake every day.
I had no idea lord of the ring was supposed to be Christian themed, when it came out I went with someone that was religious and I’m pretty sure she called it “satanic” I think it was our last date. Maybe if we’d gone to see left behind things would have ended differently
I loved the article and I have something interesting to add. I was looking forward to Disney's Shogun series because I loved the book, but after the two episodes dropped I felt frustrated with waiting every week to get basically a teaser of what's to come. The schedule for the 10 episodes is drawn out as well till end of April I believe so on my day off after a recent burnout I decided instead to binge watch a new k drama on Netflix. I'll probably be doing that till they drop all the episodes on Disney+. It weird because I really want to watch Shogun but the schedule is horrendous and there's nothing interesting to watch on Disney now that Only Murders in the building is gone.
Fantastic analysis.
Also, this is only extremely tangentially related, but I don’t have anyone else to complain to, so… I think Amazon is nuts to have introduced ads to their Prime material and then demanded viewers pay a special fee not to see them. That’s TERRIBLE consumer psychology. They could have raised their rates and I would have grumbled a bit but paid it. But now it feels like I’m being held hostage for three bucks a month, which makes me feel resentful and unwilling to pay. And the net effect is that I’ve stopped watching Prime material completely. And I might just ditch it for something like Paramount+ or Max.
Just seems like an insane business decision.
It really is remarkable how bad every streaming app is except Netflix. Like, how do you hop into streaming a decade late and make an app that's basically useless?
What's been interesting is seeing these studios begin licensing their shows and movies back to Netflix, reversing decision on making their studios into gated neighborhoods where you need to pay a subscription fee to enter.
I think Sony is the ultimate winner of the streaming war. They've quietly licensed out their shows and movies to the big streaming services (sometimes several at once) while never investing the hundreds of millions into developing their own streaming service.
Rather than dump all that money into a terrible app that barely works, they've just been making money with their libraries. Also, hilariously, their competition in the gaming space is Microsoft, a trillion dollar company, that can't seem to win. Microsoft could BUY Sony for far less money than it would cost to compete with them, but instead Sony just drinks their milkshake every day.
I had no idea lord of the ring was supposed to be Christian themed, when it came out I went with someone that was religious and I’m pretty sure she called it “satanic” I think it was our last date. Maybe if we’d gone to see left behind things would have ended differently
I loved the article and I have something interesting to add. I was looking forward to Disney's Shogun series because I loved the book, but after the two episodes dropped I felt frustrated with waiting every week to get basically a teaser of what's to come. The schedule for the 10 episodes is drawn out as well till end of April I believe so on my day off after a recent burnout I decided instead to binge watch a new k drama on Netflix. I'll probably be doing that till they drop all the episodes on Disney+. It weird because I really want to watch Shogun but the schedule is horrendous and there's nothing interesting to watch on Disney now that Only Murders in the building is gone.