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hammerofglass wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 3:48 pm I think it's actually cheaper just to buy physical discs of everything at this point.

Not that half the stuff on streaming gets a physical release, naturally...

hammerofglass wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 3:48 pm I think it's actually cheaper just to buy physical discs of everything at this point.

Not that half the stuff on streaming gets a physical release, naturally...

clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:16 pm Streaming as a business model is deeply flawed.

Lets say that you pay £10 a month for the service. That £10 is the only guaranteed revenue that everything on that platform will ever receive. Every film, show, the server costs. All determined by how many people are giving you £10 a month. After that, the costs come out of the company itself, or in other words, it is operating at a loss.

With cinema however, you are getting money PER FILM. And you have access to significantly more people. And you can make more money off the back of DVD sales. That is why the likes of Tom Cruise battled so fiercely to keep Mission Impossible and Top Gun off Day 1 streaming... and why Scarlet Johansson sued. The money simply is not there.

Streaming made sense during Covid when the cinemas were shut i'll give it that. But it was also a self-inflicted wound because streaming has helped cause significant damage to cinemas - a far superior revenue stream. Ironic then that the strikes will further hamper the cinemas and make streaming the only game in town.

BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 5:18 am

clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:16 pm Streaming as a business model is deeply flawed.

Lets say that you pay £10 a month for the service. That £10 is the only guaranteed revenue that everything on that platform will ever receive. Every film, show, the server costs. All determined by how many people are giving you £10 a month. After that, the costs come out of the company itself, or in other words, it is operating at a loss.

With cinema however, you are getting money PER FILM. And you have access to significantly more people. And you can make more money off the back of DVD sales. That is why the likes of Tom Cruise battled so fiercely to keep Mission Impossible and Top Gun off Day 1 streaming... and why Scarlet Johansson sued. The money simply is not there.

Streaming made sense during Covid when the cinemas were shut i'll give it that. But it was also a self-inflicted wound because streaming has helped cause significant damage to cinemas - a far superior revenue stream. Ironic then that the strikes will further hamper the cinemas and make streaming the only game in town.

Kinda, but the streaming models depend on new shows. The hot shows are what draw in the subscribers, so it's technically not totally distinct from ether subscription or move exhibition.