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Originally Posted by polak
I'm just saying that such a service already exists. It's called full cable.
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Full cable gives viewers a whole slew of channels that most never watch. Not sure how you think we're getting the most bang for our buck there.
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Netflix, Hulu, all of those guys pay to host the shows and movies that they have just like cable and dish providers do... The reason that the streaming services are so much cheaper is because they DON'T have every single tv episode and they pay less to air it after it airs live. How do you think they are going to make any money if they start offering the same thing as full cable but without charging as much?
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Well if you would have bothered to actually READ my posts, you'd have noticed that I said a service should exist that airs the TV show episodes the DAY after they are shown on regular TV. As for on demand stuff when it is shown, I agree that you should pay to get it. Subscription channels are my idea, and they would work great on YouTube. HBO offers a channel for $10/month or whatever they want to charge, and you subscribe to it, and get to watch all the original content on YouTube whenever you can, and you have access to previously shown content.
Or they start their own service like Netflix. Problem is there are other channels that wouldn't do that as they don't have the delivery network like Netflix, Hulu or YouTube does.
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They have to pay for Community, Mad Men, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad...etc regardless if you watch it or not. If they all of the sudden start offering EVERYTHING they still have to pay for the stupid TLC shows that you're not going to watch so they will have to charge more regardless and essentially, become a streaming version of full cable.
A pay per use model where Netflix doesn't pay AMC unless someone watches Breaking Bad would be ideal but I don't see how that would work economically unless you dramatically reduce the cost of making such shows.
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How do you know Netflix doesn't already do that? I'm not sure how their business model works in terms of paying the original source, but perhaps they pay more for shows that more people watch, and less for shows that less people watch.
The point in all of this is that everything is moving to the internet. Nobody wants to be forced to sit down at 8PM every Thursday night to catch the latest episode of Breaking Bad. If we can PVR it, great, but not all of us have a PVR, or are even home to set it up. Plus, there are those of us who don't watch cable at all, outside of 3-4 shows, and I'll be damned if I pay $100/month to be able to watch those 3-4 shows.
With MLB I pay $100 bucks a year to watch the Mariners. Comes out to LESS than $10/month. NHL Gamecenter is around that too. So there are ways to fix the 'pirating' problem.
I don't even give a crap if they serve up ads. If YouTube bought the rights to show NHL games live, I wouldn't have a single problem watching the commercials if I meant I have an easy way to access the content.
Cable TV is a dated model. The fact that the industry is having such a hard time moving onto something better is pathetic.