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What if movie studios used a Netflix business model? (1 Viewer)

Hastur

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Each of the top 10 movie studios have 1,000's upon 1,000's of titles in their arsenal. If I were Warner Bros., I would charge $8.00 a month for a Netflix style site to watch their catalog.

I just checked on Warner Bros. site, and they are charging $9.99 for a digital copy of Amadeus. That is crazy. I can't imagine they are getting much revenue from that.

 
No thanks, I'd rather just stick to Netflix. I'd rather not fracture it up into multiple monthly fees and allow each to put together their own crappy interfaces. Still annoyed by the absolute **** that is HBO Go's interface.

 
I doubt it is worth the time, money, regulation bs for a studio to fool around with that. Plus they already have licensing deals in place with the Netflix/Prime/HBO cartels that pay x amount for number of years. They are already bringing in easy money from that stream with no effort on their part (other than lawyers negotiating the terms). Disclosure: I have no links and may be completely off base with my comments, that is just how I imagine #### works.

 
Why would an individual studio build infrastructure when there are companies who have already built a brand and system?

 
Here is why I bring this up: Netflix/Hulu/etc. have hundreds of movies. What if you want to watch "The Last Starfighter" though? Or "The Wackiest Ship in the Army"? What about "African Queen"? "Court Jester"?

Netflix/Hulu has maybe .02% of classic hollywood.

 
Hastur said:
Here is why I bring this up: Netflix/Hulu/etc. have hundreds of movies. What if you want to watch "The Last Starfighter" though? Or "The Wackiest Ship in the Army"? What about "African Queen"? "Court Jester"?

Netflix/Hulu has maybe .02% of classic hollywood.
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Then you pay $9.99 for a digital copy, or go buy the blu-ray at the store for $7.99.

 
So question. After you buy the roku do you still need memberships to the individual services ? :bag:

 
mr roboto said:
Why would an individual studio build infrastructure when there are companies who have already built a brand and system?
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Cut out the middle man and make more $. The only thing that Netflix is really bringing to the table is that they've already negotiated the licensing with most of the major movie companies. Aside from this, it's really not that hard to replicate what Netflix does.

When it was just a DVD world, it's not like Warner Bros just had their DVD's in Best Buy and then said "No Thanks" to Walmart, Target, etc. They would want their movies as broadly distributed as possible.

I'm guessing (but probably wrong) that the studios are still paranoid about anything digital and don't want to give piracy a remote chance.

 
Brony said:
The only thing that Netflix is really bringing to the table is that they've already negotiated the licensing with most of the major movie companies. Aside from this, it's really not that hard to replicate what Netflix does.
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From a consumer standpoint it apparently is difficult to replicate, because nobody has done it very well yet.

Brony said:
When it was just a DVD world, it's not like Warner Bros just had their DVD's in Best Buy and then said "No Thanks" to Walmart, Target, etc. They would want their movies as broadly distributed as possible.
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They also didn't say "sorry Best Buy, you're not allowed to carry our movies anymore, we're going to sell them at the Warner Bros store instead".

 
FreeBaGeL said:
Brony said:
The only thing that Netflix is really bringing to the table is that they've already negotiated the licensing with most of the major movie companies. Aside from this, it's really not that hard to replicate what Netflix does.
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From a consumer standpoint it apparently is difficult to replicate, because nobody has done it very well yet.

Brony said:
When it was just a DVD world, it's not like Warner Bros just had their DVD's in Best Buy and then said "No Thanks" to Walmart, Target, etc. They would want their movies as broadly distributed as possible.
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They also didn't say "sorry Best Buy, you're not allowed to carry our movies anymore, we're going to sell them at the Warner Bros store instead".
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I didn't see anyone suggest that Warner Brothers would do their own video-on-demand and not distribute via Netflix. :shrug: sorry if I missed that.

 
NutterButter said:
snogger said:
belljr said:
So question. After you buy the roku do you still need memberships to the individual services ? :bag:
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For things like Netflix/Hulu :yes:

But channels like the one above and hundreds of others are free. :thumbup:
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Why does it say on that site to start your 14 day trial? Smells like a pay channel.
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:bag: you are correct, THAT channel is a pay one..

But many listed here are free, ones like Crackle and others come to mind.

Also, there are "Private" channels, not listed officially on Roku's site, but you are not breaking any terms or conditions by adding them..

One site that list tested and working private channels

Might have to check this one out :lmao:

 
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News: just about every movie is available for free over the internet these days. Usually you don't even have to download anything. Combine this with something like a Chromecast and you are good to go.

 
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