• Kethal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When distribution was solely through radio waves owned by networks it made sense to license to a network. Now you can sell directly to consumers. Why do producers go through mediaries and bundle shows? I don’t get it. If they want to make money from Band of Brothers, they could put it on their Web site at a reasonable price and charge consumers directly.

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      1 year ago

      Because then you’re also taking on the administration of content delivery and payment for the same. That all takes time and money to spin up and market - which a bunch of networks have done, making their own streaming platforms. I’m willing to bet that a good number of those “second tier” direct to consumer streaming platforms aren’t making as much money as the networks had hoped, while also adding a lot of administrative overhead. So they’re moving back to just licensing the content to Netflix and Hulu and Amazon.

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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      1 year ago

      As far as I know, series are still released on DVD/Blue Ray. Are you expecting for each production company to have their own content delivery network, maintain their own servers and everything else needed to run a video streaming plataform?

      • Kethal@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        … Yes, that’s what I expect. Do you think these are mom and pop shops?

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      1 year ago

      Digital purchases still exist for a ton of movies and shows.

      The issue is that most people don’t actually want to pay a non-trivial amount of money to buy a season of a show that they’ll watch one time.