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Amazon is paying $8.5 Billion for MGM Studios. It's said to be worth $6 Billion, on the high side.
MGM owns a ton of ****, including The Apprentice.
Word is, there's hours upon hours of outakes that contain trump.......being trump, that haven't been destroyed.
Bezos and the Trump hate each other.
That footage could be, might be the only reason Bezos is throwing extra billions at this deal.
 
It could be as simple as big boys toys. He overpays so that Netflix/Disney can't get it and he can throw the blockbusters on prime video. I am still surprised prime video is not broken out as a separate charge. I think most of its users use it because it is free (sort of, they were paying for prime shipping and video was included). If they started charging separately, I think subscriber base would plummet but maybe with a better catalogue he is hoping to maintain membership?
 
GreyGhost said:
It could be as simple as big boys toys. He overpays so that Netflix/Disney can't get it and he can throw the blockbusters on prime video. I am still surprised prime video is not broken out as a separate charge. I think most of its users use it because it is free (sort of, they were paying for prime shipping and video was included). If they started charging separately, I think subscriber base would plummet but maybe with a better catalogue he is hoping to maintain membership?
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Prime shipping has sucked for me lately. Been waiting four weeks so far for a micro SD card. I ordered two. One came at three weeks.
 
Baggsy said:
Prime shipping has sucked for me lately. Been waiting four weeks so far for a micro SD card. I ordered two. One came at three weeks.
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I would imagine this has something to do with it. My shipments have been only slightly delayed lately, about 3-4 days on average

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Been looking at a few items and find more than normal most things are not available at this time
 
The other thing is if you're really rich, you need good media coverage. Otherwise, when you stiff your employees people will get upset.
 
Tempting as the theories may be, I think this is as simple as the US streaming wars starting in earnest. Netflix, Disney+/Hulu, HBO Max, Paramount, Peacock, fubo, AT&T, Tubi, Crackle, Apple TV, YouTube/Google Play, Facebook, BritBox, Acorn, AMC Premiere, Amazon Prime and a multitude of others are all vying for market share in a space where three or four major players will be about saturation point. Owning your content is key, hence why Netflix switched to rolling their own.

Overpaying for IP to stuff your service with content won't stop here, I don't think. The major difference between this and music streaming is there isn't an expectation that most things are available on all platforms.

As it stands, subscribing to everything costs a heck of a lot more than a cable bill, and it's super confusing as to what's available where. Over time, I see a lot of these either folding or merging, similar to what happened with music. Subscription models have made people resistant to 'renting' movies, too.

All I care about is being able to find old movies. Having them spread over multiple services is better than not having them available at all, and while things are improving (Disney+ in Canada recently added a whole bunch of stuff), there's still quite a bit stuck in licensing limbo...
 
Priller said:
Tempting as the theories may be, I think this is as simple as the US streaming wars starting in earnest. Netflix, Disney+/Hulu, HBO Max, Paramount, Peacock, fubo, AT&T, Tubi, Crackle, Apple TV, YouTube/Google Play, Facebook, BritBox, Acorn, AMC Premiere, Amazon Prime and a multitude of others are all vying for market share in a space where three or four major players will be about saturation point. Owning your content is key, hence why Netflix switched to rolling their own.

Overpaying for IP to stuff your service with content won't stop here, I don't think. The major difference between this and music streaming is there isn't an expectation that most things are available on all platforms.

As it stands, subscribing to everything costs a heck of a lot more than a cable bill, and it's super confusing as to what's available where. Over time, I see a lot of these either folding or merging, similar to what happened with music. Subscription models have made people resistant to 'renting' movies, too.

All I care about is being able to find old movies. Having them spread over multiple services is better than not having them available at all, and while things are improving (Disney+ in Canada recently added a whole bunch of stuff), there's still quite a bit stuck in licensing limbo...
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The biggest upside for me of chromecast + google tv is you can just say a movie name and it shows you which services have it (including price if not available for free). You know what you want to watch but it sucks logging into three or four services to see if it is available on any of them now. Searching online sucks as the catalogues change (by time and location).
 
GreyGhost said:
The biggest upside for me of chromecast + google tv is you can just say a movie name and it shows you which services have it (including price if not available for free). You know what you want to watch but it sucks logging into three or four services to see if it is available on any of them now. Searching online sucks as the catalogues change (by time and location).
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It's definitely an improvement, but doesn't include all the services, at least not on mine (the newer one with a remote). Crave, for example, doesn't ashow up in my searches. That said, we use a DNS based region unlocker that plays havoc with some services, so that may compound the problem...
 
Priller said:
It's definitely an improvement, but doesn't include all the services, at least not on mine (the newer one with a remote). Crave, for example, doesn't ashow up in my searches. That said, we use a DNS based region unlocker that plays havoc with some services, so that may compound the problem...
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I dont use crave so I have no idea on behaviour. For netflix/prime/Disney it seems to work better than any alternative I have tried.
 
Priller said:
It's definitely an improvement, but doesn't include all the services, at least not on mine (the newer one with a remote). Crave, for example, doesn't ashow up in my searches. That said, we use a DNS based region unlocker that plays havoc with some services, so that may compound the problem...
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Crave is Canadian, owned by Bell. I imagine you're probably showing an American ip
 
regder said:
Crave is Canadian, owned by Bell. I imagine you're probably showing an American ip
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If anything, it'd be UK. But it shows movies on Disney+ that are Canadian only, so I think a lot has to do with the app and whether Google has access to the library. I'd be curious if Crave titles show on other's searches in the home section...
 
ToSlow said:
Trump still lives in a lot of people head
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TDS will be around for many years . When pushed many don't know why they hate him . Total brain washing job by the media .
 
Gary said:
Amazon is paying $8.5 Billion for MGM Studios. It's said to be worth $6 Billion, on the high side.
MGM owns a ton of ****, including The Apprentice.
Word is, there's hours upon hours of outakes that contain trump.......being trump, that haven't been destroyed.
Bezos and the Trump hate each other.
That footage could be, might be the only reason Bezos is throwing extra billions at this deal.
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they also own the whole James Bond franchise including the unreleased movie. That franchise alone is worth 6 bil.
 
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