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I've never been happier with the media landscape, personally. Never had more options.

dfergie can you move our posts over to NFL 2025-2026 Season

I'm sure Jerry will make excellent use of those 1st round picks.

I mean, does it violate the terms of their carriage agreement or not? Pretty simple.

There are already studios that don't participate in Movie's Anywhere, it sets a higher bar for if I buy their titles. That's the closest to any of that. The more they make their content harder to watch or buy, the less they sell. It's not in their best interest to hoard these after their...

I'm being neither optimistic or pessimistic, but rather acting on data. I've been consuming content this way for more than 15 years. There has never been a merger or consolidation that I can point to that ever impacted this use case, in my experience. It's like complaining about data usage or...

Ok, and how has that negatively impacted this topic? I get the concern, but the consolidation is not new. It's FUD unless there's already been an impact that I (a relatively heavy user of PVOD) have yet to be impacted by. The closest any of us deal with that is just the ebb and flow of...

Same, the dozens that I redeemed on Vudu and elsewhere are all still there and accessible. Our actual DVDs and Blu-Rays are still in the garage, in their deteriorating cardboard boxes unpacked since our our move into this house almost 10 years ago.

What consolidation though, and how has any prior consolidation impacted this issue? I have so many titles in part because I can buy them from multiple other storefronts and because of (generous IMO) licensing that most movie distributors have agreed to I can access those same titles on multiple...

It does fluctuate due to the nature of licensing, though it's pretty rare. It's more common w/ books, which just went through a big thing on their Kindle and Audible platforms. Wife has more than 1100 books on the platform (I suppose a few might be mine), and 300 audiobooks (ok, maybe 10 are...

Doubt it goes anywhere, and if it does it'll just change terminology used on sites to purchase licenses for content. There will be no meaningful change as a result of this. I don't see how any of this can be seen as malicious on the part of Amazon when they're just engaging in industry...

It's not stealing, but it's explicitly a violation of Netflix TOS (any effort to obscure your location is), it's not uncommon for Netflix to blacklist VPN IPs. I could see this being the impetus for more emphasis on enforcement just as other high profile content has in the past. But yes, if you...

Randomly watched this last night, never heard of it. Good budget Scifi shot over 5 nights with a $50k budget. View: https://youtu.be/sEceDz1Rodc https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/coherence

They really nailed the aesthetic of the Alien movies.

Last night's AMC Unseen was Relay, if it wasn't the first day of school I'd have probably gone to see it. View: https://youtu.be/ywC__z5VgZM

MNF double headers are going away, so all MNF games (not sure about 2025, but going forward) should become a thing of the past. This was part of the terms of this deal. So w/ no double headers, and if MNF continues to be mirrored over to ABC, you should get them all there in the future.

I think this creates a ton of leverage for Disney, especially if any of their contracts expire during football season now that there's even more NFL content in play. Providers aren't likely to provide packages that are cheaper than getting their cheap package plus ESPN separately.

I don't necessarily disagree, but they covered all of them with the more general statement, and then the bullet point for DirecTV-specific availability to add context to when it'll be available there under the offering that it's applicable to. A 'available to all other MVPD subscribers' bullet...

Became a fan of this recently, having seen both Life of Chuck and Jurassic World Rebirth with this program at my nearby AMC. You don't know what the movie is until it starts, but showings usually start on Monday night at 7pm across the country - so the east coast goes in genuinely blind and...

I think you're right, I was reading it in the context of that bullet point addressing all MVPD availability and can see now its really just referencing DIRECTV's offerings.

For some reason the details below that suggest it won't be available for most until the fall, could be infrastructure, could be pending deals with those providers. No idea which (or what else). Bruce didn't say ESPN would be charging those customers for it. You both could be right.

Might not be initially available? ESPN Unlimited: Available to all DirecTV streaming and "My Sports" subscribers at launch, with satellite and U-Verse customers to gain access later this fall as an upgrade at no additional cost. Those who own a DirecTV Gemini device (and subscribe to the...

Payton Manning's Omaha Productions, not the NFL, but yeah, the docuseries' they've made that I've watched have all been really good quality. I've just seen this and the NFL ones, but they've produced some covering the NBA, WNBA and a few college related programs...

I haven't watched wrestling in decades, but that Unreal docuseries on Netflix is fantastic. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfE8LC_FVLA

This deal was agreed to this week, pending regulatory approval. One interesting thing I've seen a couple outlets reporting on is Iger said it includes the RedZone branding, so they could potentially launch RedZone channels for other sports.