Streaming services content war is taking shape

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Amazon recently announced that’s it’s deal to buy the MGM library of movies and TV shows for over 8B is now official. That means movie series like Rocky and James Bond will go to Amazon Prime. This move is to directly compete with Disney which recently purchased the Lucas Films and Marvel Studios. It’s also trying to compete with ATT which last year announced a merger with Warner Media and Discovery. That deal encompasses such channels as HBO, CNN and HGTV. That deal was approved last month by the US government. We will have to wait and see if the Amazon deal gets approved but it’s been approved in Europe.

IMO this will mean increased costs for consumers going forward bc all these libraries are now “locked up” in the hands of only a few companies. I’ve only recently started streaming stuff. I’m still using satelitte TV but that is probably going away on the residential side bc of the costs to run it. (Satellite TV will still be the only option commercially bc all the bars/taverns can’t get enough bandwidth to service all those TVs).

Which streaming services do you guys use and why?
 
I've got Hulu TV and netflix. Hulu tv had the channels i wanted and was relatively cheap at the time. They've kept raising prices and now you have to have it bundled with espn+ and disney plus+ for an additional $5. I actually have watched a good bit of espn+. I think in total its like $70/month now and another $15 for netflix?

Plus we have someone's password for amazon, but i wouldn't pay for it myself.
 
none. although technically i'm an amazon prime member, so i guess that classifies me as being an amazon prime streamer?
 
dbldwn711 said:
Amazon recently announced that’s it’s deal to buy the MGM library of movies and TV shows for over 8B is now official. That means movie series like Rocky and James Bond will go to Amazon Prime. This move is to directly compete with Disney which recently purchased the Lucas Films and Marvel Studios. It’s also trying to compete with ATT which last year announced a merger with Warner Media and Discovery. That deal encompasses such channels as HBO, CNN and HGTV. That deal was approved last month by the US government. We will have to wait and see if the Amazon deal gets approved but it’s been approved in Europe.

IMO this will mean increased costs for consumers going forward bc all these libraries are now “locked up” in the hands of only a few companies. I’ve only recently started streaming stuff. I’m still using satelitte TV but that is probably going away on the residential side bc of the costs to run it. (Satellite TV will still be the only option commercially bc all the bars/taverns can’t get enough bandwidth to service all those TVs).

Which streaming services do you guys use and why?
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Bout time to cancel cable and sub to what you want. A hd stream is only 6-12 megabits gigabit is becoming common but even still starlink is ~100Mbps so we'll say 10 streams on a single connection... Satellite tv is over priced for what it is
 
williewilliejuan said:
It’s getting to the point where you need multiple services to get the range of content you want. It’s less convenient than just having cable/satellite and not much cheaper.
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As soon as YoutubeTV stopped carrying Braves games, I called Directtv
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
As soon as YoutubeTV stopped carrying Braves games, I called Directtv
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THIS!

sports is the primary reason to have satelitte tv. Plus you can set up an account with an east coast address and utilize the dish anywhere. That means you get prime time shows three hours early and you can have one account that services multiple locations.

i agree that cable is garbage.
 
williewilliejuan said:
It’s getting to the point where you need multiple services to get the range of content you want. It’s less convenient than just having cable/satellite and not much cheaper.
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Yep! That's what I'm seeing at my end too. For me, it's looking like LESS hassle staying with cable for NOT that much more per month. :nod:
 
ojb81 said:
none. although technically i'm an amazon prime member, so i guess that classifies me as being an amazon prime streamer?
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where do you get content? Cable? Satellite ?
 
dbldwn711 said:
where do you get content? Cable? Satellite ?
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I do YouTube tv, Disney plus, Netflix, Paramount Plus, Amazon prime, Hulu, HBO max, and peacock

Really only use yttv for sports, could easily get rid of it outside football season
 
I probably can’t list all the streaming services at this point. I think this has become a fetish for Mrs OE. Sign up, sign up….then after a while we have to go cancel some. I know a lot of them we got through bundling deals or perks from cell phone company, etc. So maybe it’s not so bad.

Probably are paying as much as cable at this point, but, I’m still never going back to cable or satellite. I prefer at least the illusion that I cultivate the content I want. With all of them locking down major content studios it just means I’m going to rotate them off and on from time to time.

Sports is the only real issue, but I’ve learned creative ways. Sometimes they are perfect, sometimes far from. But I simply reject cable or satellite, and it’s a core principle to never give ESPN one red fucking cent.
 
Have Netflix, Prime, Hulu (through my phone), Peacock via cable, HBOMax via parents, Paramount and Apple+ via friend
 
Cable mandatory. I love it's convenience. Gives me sports and also HBO/Crave.

Also have:

Netflix
Disney +
Prime
DAZN (for Euro soccer)
Sunday Ticket in season
And a 4K source for movies that are new.
 
broncosmitty said:
I never got rid of DIRECTV.

And I’m not gonna.
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I’m with ya. I’m rocking that game HARD! I’ve got a few different places that have differing accounts in them. I get around all sports blackouts. If a game is blacked out in Vegas I just switch receivers to an account out of a different time zone and there it is.

Every guy has a vise. For some it’s booze, gambling, dugs, woman, etc. For me it’s TV and more specially sports and movies. I have a 4 TV set up in my living room. (65’ on the bottom with 3 50’ TVs across the top). I watch multiple sporting events at once and maybe throw a movie on the bigger one. I can bounce the audio bw each TV.

As the years have gone on I use it less and less but still I’m hooked. Can’t go back to the way it was. Streaming would screw all that up bc of picture quality and access to content.
 
Sling and the Disney plus bundle is all I have and it’s way more than I care to need. Bless be you people who watch TV a lot.
 
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