Comment on Opinion: It's time for a proper Steam-type service for TV alongside streaming exists.
Skavau@lemm.ee 1 week agoIt wouldn’t replace them, it’d exist alongside it.
Comment on Opinion: It's time for a proper Steam-type service for TV alongside streaming exists.
Skavau@lemm.ee 1 week agoIt wouldn’t replace them, it’d exist alongside it.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 week ago
Why would they do that if they can all have their own platforms instead?
memfree@beehaw.org 1 week ago
From Steam founder Gabe Newell, 2011:
The same can be said of movies/tv – except Steam saw the issue before EA and everyone made their own streaming stores, whereas all the video distributors have splintered into their own services.
I’m not sure where/why Hulu failed to gain the sort of share Steam attained. It existed early on and had … at least 3 big networks (iirc, not cbs? but abc, nbc and fox – then nbc dropped out to just do peacock, I think). Perhaps hulu didn’t pay enough for rights or perhaps Apple, Netflix and Amazon represented too many other players to make the equivalent arguments as Steam made.
Skavau@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Yeah, I mean ultimately muh rights issues aren’t the consumers problem. If the networks and streamers don’t make a TV series accessible on day 1, the internet will.
Skavau@lemm.ee 1 week ago
You would have two ways to watch a show.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 week ago
You’re talking from the viewer’s perspective. Why should the company share their profits?
Skavau@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Well, okay, they could sell it like that on their own platform then. But they don’t.