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Disclaimer: I worked for an actual news organization that was 150+ years old when I left after 12 years. Journalism is absolutely about having multiple data sources to corroborate assertions. What is published in the link you provided is not journalism. At best, it is market analysis, which...

While the Stream numbers are believable, I tend to agree that they are suspect without any verified source. Too much crap on the Internet is just based on a single source with no corroboration. What is less believable is DirecTV is making enough money on that number of subscribers to make it...

My Sony's seem to recognize a lot of different STBs. I think it comes down to whether the STB advertises it and the TV is setup to display it.

That's possible. nScreenMedia appears to be a company of 2 people, one of which got to a dead-end in his career and decided to build a business around his network of contacts throughout the industry to make a fancy looking blog. The numbers could easily be a mix of real and imagined values...

I think this is hard to quantify without some serious data analysis, so I am just going to provide my gut feeling. Most of the streaming shows I watch are between 6-12 episodes per season. While I do miss the days of 24+ episode seasons where I got new episodes of my favorite shows more...

I guess my answer to this is "not yet." It depends on the service of course. MAX is the one I would definitely answer "yes" to. Of course, I get that included with my AT&T Fiber service, so it hasn't cost me anything extra for a while. Prime Video would be a "sometimes" except for the fact...

Yes. College tuition for me was less than $1000/semester in 1992. When I got out, there were dozens of jobs to choose from, and I was able to buy a new house a couple years later, even with 8% mortgage rates. Very different for those who came after.

As a jaded Gen Xer who works with a lot of AI researchers, I am thinking this is going to a very long road to mass unemployment. Enjoy the Wall Street hype train while it lasts. AI is just the next bubble. There will be some great things that come out of this and others will be made better by...

The ironic thing is that older people are spending more money on discretionary purchases these days than ever. One of the reasons inflation has remained higher than expected is older Americans with lots of wealth are spending it while they can still enjoy it. Seems like a good time to...

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/disney-and-comcast-hit-impasse-in-final-lap-of-hulu-negotiations-eedcfc92?mod=hp_lead_pos3 Companies are discussing a Disney buyout of Comcast’s stake in streaming service; with a big valuation gap, the prospect of a court battle looms

And news and sports, which is really all my parents watch anymore.

Pretty similar, but it wasn't the programming costs that were killing them so much as it was the equipment fees (2 DVRs) and local broadcast fee: 2 Receivers @ $12.50 each ($25 total) 2 DVR Fee @ $20 Broadcast fee @ $25.75 Select channel package @ $89.99 The got a $10 bundle discount since...

Yeah, we liked it well enough, but we didn't like paying as much as we did for how little we used it. My parents on the other hand, really use theirs a lot, and it is saving them around $80/month compared to what they used to pay Spectrum.

I finally convinced my wife to try the Channels DVR I setup, and she liked it, so she cancelled YTTV. The only thing we were watching on it was local channels and that was local news that is available in apps anyway.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/23/media/charles-barkley-tnt-nba-reliable-sources/index.html

No one. Maybe AI will eliminate the need for copy editing since it isn't done anymore anyway, but I doubt it. The empire is falling, and this is just one symptom.

Honestly, no, but I did find etymology of the word somewhat amusing: venue (n.) c. 1300, "a coming for the purpose of attack," from Old French venue "coming" (12c.), from fem. past participle of venir "to come," from Latin venire "to come" (from PIE root *gwa- "to go, come").

It is like they were going to call it Venus, then decided not to name it after a women's razor brand, and did the lazy thing and dropped the "s".

I keep seeing reports like this: https://www.theverge.com/24152330/netflix-hulu-disney-plus-hbo-streaming-cable-video-verge While bundles are now available and ads are pervasive if you don't want to pay to avoid them, there is are significant differences: 1. You don't have to bundle streaming...

https://qz.com/warner-bros-discovery-q1-earnings-streaming-profit-hbo-1851465677

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51nz9d2w3ro

I actually have the Apple One Premier plan for my family of 5, so I was including the entire price of that. I actually get YT Premium annually as well. I use gift cards I get on sale at Target (Red Card and Target Circle discounts), Best Buy, and Sam's to save on everything except Prime, which...

So, here is how I look at it: I used to pay like $120/month for Dish/DirecTV for a whole home DVR and 4 rooms with a higher-end programming package with HBO or Showtime. I probably watched about 10% of the channels I had in a given week at best, but I still struggled to find things to watch at...

Insiders tell me Apple is playing a very long game with the TV service -- to the point that they aren't even calculating profitability yet. Well, I am sure some accountant is, but the execs don't even want to be told. They are also very interested in overall profitability of their services...

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/disney-dis-q2-earnings-report-2024-300990de?mod=hp_lead_pos6 The most interesting thing I found from the article: Excluding sports, Disney’s streaming business earned a profit of $47 million for the quarter. Once again, sports are both the savior and death...