Babylon 5 is leaving Amazon Prime!

[Robovski]

I figure a streaming service will be very big (Netflix, Disney+/Hulu) or very niche (Crunchyroll) to survive as a standalone streaming service. Some might be better served as package bundle options for other services than as stand-alone services. But that's my opinion.

[TGLS]

AT&T/Warner needs to get its act together and merge all of its shit together. Having HBO Max, HBO Now, and now the upcoming DC Universe is just getting confusing. Besides that, HBO's library plus Warner's library might be a winner. Crunchyroll and other Otter Media things are probably specialty enough to ignore.

[Deledrius]

I figure a streaming service will be very big (Netflix, Disney+/Hulu) or very niche (Crunchyroll) to survive as a standalone streaming service. Some might be better served as package bundle options for other services than as stand-alone services. But that's my opinion.

That's a good way to look at it.

AT&T/Warner needs to get its act together and merge all of its shit together. Having HBO Max, HBO Now, and now the upcoming DC Universe is just getting confusing.

They're also competing against themselves. Both time and money are a factor here.

In the end, the only thing I'd consider a win condition is for the streaming services to be owned by different companies than the studios. Sadly, the current market position is consolidation and moving towards a tighter and tighter oligopoly. That's bad for content, it's bad for service, and it's bad for consumers.

[Yukaphile]

At least Amazon Prime is in the best position to survive that bubble bursting. And it takes a lot to draw an audience away from a service they trust. Sadly, I could see the day corporate greed so forces the issue, that it ends up killing streaming in the end. People can't afford ANY service, because so many beloved shows are stretched across the medium, that people just give up cold turkey. Amazon will still pull through as the place for buying and shipping things, but I'm uncertain if streaming will make it. Though if any company is in the best position to do so, it is them. How much is the Warner streaming site? Fuck... I absolutely will NOT give them one red cent UNTIL I know for sure it is there. And I'm not paying them forever.

@clearspira These people are so damned out of touch and so desperate to cash in, they don't consider that, living as they do in their high-priced, financially secure ivory towers.

[Yukaphile]

What disgusts me most is if the bubble bursts, Amazon Prime survives, and B5 ends up right back where it started, I'LL HAVE TO FUCKING PAY FOR IT ALL OVER AGAIN.

[Darth Wedgius]

It was the dawn on the Third Age of Being Online, the year the Great Streaming War came upon us all...

When cable got some basic channels included, content people wanted crept off those channels and onto premium channels. Or at least that's what I think I saw. I wouldn't be surprised to see that pattern happen again with any major channels that get a solid foothold. Netflix+, Amazon Prime+, Disney++. If there's a dollar to be had...

[Yukaphile]

... OMG, don't tell me there's TWO Disney streaming sites? I thought it was Disney+! What's this Disney++ shit...?

[Darth Wedgius]

There is no Disney++. I was saying that if some streaming services clearly win out, I think they will create premium streaming services at additional cost.

[Robovski]

There is no Disney++. I was saying that if some streaming services clearly win out, I think they will create premium streaming services at additional cost.

But that's the channel add-ons. Right now on Prime and Hulu you can buy Starz or Acorn and get programming otherwise not available with your subscription to the very service you are already subscribed to for lack of $5 more a month.

[Darth Wedgius]

There is no Disney++. I was saying that if some streaming services clearly win out, I think they will create premium streaming services at additional cost.

But that's the channel add-ons. Right now on Prime and Hulu you can buy Starz or Acorn and get programming otherwise not available with your subscription to the very service you are already subscribed to for lack of $5 more a month.

Thanks! I saw that advertised but didn't look into it.