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Why is there no subscription service for films like Apple Music and Spotify. I'd love it if there was. Are the movie studios smarter than the music industry was?
- ummm, maybe I'm missing something, but those have been around forever ... Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu, Apple, and so many, many moremonospaced
- I guess there's no ONE service that has EVERYTHING, and that's the difference. And yeah, because the studios are pretty tight with distribution, for sure.monospaced
- You got there in the end mono.Hayzilla
- I have Netflix and HBO (which is gone after GOT is over). I steal anything that's not on there.section_014
- 25 million songs on Spotify from 2 million artists and always there. Netflix (this week) it has 4, thousand movies. Which always change and most are pish.Hayzilla
- Songs don't costs 100-200 million dollars to make.fadein11
- Cinema and pay per view are still the main revenue streams.fadein11
- I feel like a combination of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and HBO covers most content, and you can "share" a lot of that. Then, $5-$6 per rental is not bad!monospaced
- The trend now is that the studios are trying to close off their content again. Disney is making their own subscription service for example.monospaced
- I guess that makes sense. They've got the classic Disney catalog, plus Star Wars and all the Pixar stuff. That's one helluva subscription if you have kids.monospaced
- yep, I had this recently trying to watch some Studio Ghibli with my daughter, I actually had to get the DVD's out as none were available on any platform (UK).fadein11
- I'll be dumping netflix for this in april:
https://www.macrumor…Gnash - It's really a matter of time before telecoms just bundle all the streaming channels and we're back where we started.i_monk
- Ignite is already erasing the distinction between them, just say "play X" and it finds X on Netflix or wherever and plays it.i_monk
- @i_monk, SO TRUEmonospaced
- it's really just a big, loooong transition from cable to streaming, but in the end, the networks still get theirs, and so do the advertisers, and customers paymonospaced
- @Gnash, didn't they have this already and it cost like $4/mnth or close. Problem was nobody bothered with it and they shut it down.futurefood
- ^ i don't know. I just heard about this new one. back in the day I got most of my rentals from the Criterion section of the local vid storeGnash
- i'm assuming they'll have the entire catalogue available -- but I guess i should check first!Gnash