Disney is about to own all of Hulu
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Disney expects to pay $8 billion to get full ownership of Hulu.

Disney is about to own all of Hulu | Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu.::Disney and Comcast have reached a deal on Hulu’s buyout. Disney expects to pay about $8.61 billion to get the 33 percent owned by Comcast as a result of their agreement in 2019.

  • @[email protected]English
    0•1 year ago

    Neither?

    I would rather have 20 services, all with access to most of the same content.

    Some services give you the option to pick and choose which media packages you want.

    These services are now able to compete on a mostly even ground in terms of content, and instead there is an incentive for them to provide a good user experience.

    This would also encourage the media companies to stop licencing their content exclusively or as upfront large blocks, and instead per/stream style licensing could show up (where a content owner is paid based off how much their content is watched).

    This would then encourage media companies to produce content people want to watch, rather than the last 10 years where the priority is to have larger libraries of exclusive content (even if that content isn’t good).

    None of that is a given if content companies didn’t also own the streaming companies, but it’s is the sort of market that had the best version of Netflix (before they were making content their user experience was much better).

    • phillaholicEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      So you want tech companies to spend money on features completely outside of the content and then also have the content, and expect that not to cost substantially more?

      Producing “content people want to watch” gets you lowest common denominator crap. Say goodbye to prestige TV and hello to reality TV.

      • @[email protected]English
        0•1 year ago

        You’re sooooo close.

        I want tech companies to create streaming services.

        I want content companies to make content.

        AKA removing the monopoly.

        • phillaholicEnglish
          0•1 year ago

          And somehow you think it’ll be cheaper. It hasn’t made music streaming cheaper. It hasn’t made streaming cable replacements cheaper.

          • @[email protected]English
            0•1 year ago

            It has made music streaming cheaper.

            If you don’t like Spotify or feel it’s too expensive, do a google search, there are like a dozen alternatives, most of them cheaper.

            For Spotify you’re paying for one of the better user experiences.

            Like I said, you’re sooooo close to understanding