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Originally Posted by McG
Not just older people! Everyone should be up in arms about this stuff.
I wonder how 4k and 8k broadcasts are going to come into the home as well.
Personally, the first company to have Netflix for sports, especially the way that Netflix has become almost ubiquitous on many devices and TVs, will be the big winner here. I would dump cable TV for the 8 bajillion million hours of broadcasting every year that no one in my household watches for the couple of hours per event that I watch tv. I don't want to subscribe to every service for every sport that I like to watch though, which is where SportFlix (TM) or NetSports (TM) come in.
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Won't happen. Sports leagues and broadcasters are not going to transfer their growth potential to a Netflix-type distributor and let them make all the money.
Netflix works with movies because the producers have already made their money in theatres and are now simply selling the remaining distribution rights.
Sports are only valuable once. The only way for leagues and broadcasters to make money from broadcasting is to control (and charge for) the distribution rights of those broadcasts.