Maybe HBO/Max will go out of business. We have way too many movie channels now and a thinning would be good. If ATT demands the same deal with all cable companies. How can they survive.
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HBO will outlive me. I suspect they'll outlive AT&T also.
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Netflix has 100 million subscribers. HBO has 54 million. Maybe ATT is trying to drive more subscribers to HBO Now, which has 5 million. That way ATT can cut out the middle man and make all the profit.
Amazon will outlive everything. Not long ago Amazon was selling books for a living.
That's what they said about Woolworths...and then Sears...and then K-Mart...and then Walmart. Amazon looks invincible now, but you never know.
I think streaming is the future. As time goes by more and more of rural America will have more options. We did not have any high speed until 2012. I got mine in 2013 (Spectrum). We now have satellite and also cel tower. Until 2012 I had 28.8 dial up and I rarely got about 26.6. I could not even load and stream You Tube for a few years after they changed their minimum. I think it was 75., so I was three times below that.
So they have another 100 years to go.
Jeff Bezos to employees: 'One day, Amazon will fail' but our job is to delay it as long as possible
HBO Is like the Coca Cola of the premium movie channels.
Then you have Starz and Showtime who are like Pepsi.
Pepsi might be just as good as Coke, but when people reference premium channels they think of HBO.
Just like Coke, HBO ain't going out of business
If Amazon lasts as long as Sears has, none of us will have to worry about it.
Because AT&T and Time Warner merging needs to be halted for Dish's benefit because? The only logical answer is that Dish fears that AT&T will make unreasonable price increases on programming.
I doubt that, but that would be a major twist of irony, considering out of the U.S. premium services on satellite and cable, HBO and Cinemax are the premier. That would be the equivalent of out of the major fast food chains in the country, McDonalds is the one that goes out of buisness and Burger King and Wendy's lives on. Although that wouldn't bother me, I hate fast food.
All the providers should be concerned, not just Dish...
I know this is immediately affecting satellite customers on Dish, but I think this is the beginnings of the net neutrality struggle. There is a reason that internet providers are gobbling up content providers and delivery systems. AT&T buys DirecTV and Time Warner. Comcast buys Universal/NBC. Look for Disney to buy an internet provider eventually. They want to control your content from beginning to end.
I wouldn't be surprised, that in the near future, AT&T will move that if you have an internet provider other than AT&T, it will cost extra to watch their content using HBO Now. Or you can only watch in standard def from other providers. This will be a move to force people to buy their internet service to see their products.
I hope this is not the case, but I completely see AT&T doing it. Removing HBO from the only competing satellite provider is the first step.
If this shines a bad light on the AT&T/Time Warner merger for the Justice Department.....so be it!
Yes...All providers should be concerned.
I wouldn't be surprised, that in the near future, AT&T will move that if you have an internet provider other than AT&T, it will cost extra to watch their content using HBO Now. Or you can only watch in standard def from other providers. This will be a move to force people to buy their internet service to see their products.
I hope this is not the case, but I completely see AT&T doing it. Removing HBO from the only competing satellite provider is the first step.
If this shines a bad light on the AT&T/Time Warner merger for the Justice Department.....so be it!
Yes...All providers should be concerned.
Net Neutrality is a misnomer.
We've had net neutrality since the internet has existed.
Only a couple of years ago did the government try to poke it's nose in and regulate things that have worked so well for 30 years.
We've had net neutrality since the internet has existed.
Only a couple of years ago did the government try to poke it's nose in and regulate things that have worked so well for 30 years.
It never got very far before they pulled the plug. Thank goodness.
Yes, give AT&T, Verizon and Comcast control of the internet. What could possibly go wrong?
Yes, give AT&T, Verizon and Comcast control of the internet. What could possibly go wrong?
The internet is controlled by countless companies all over the world. Far cry from any monopoly. And a government monopoly is much worse than any business monopoly.
Ahem, after ISPs started asking for paid prioritization from Netflix and others, which is contrary to Net Neutrality. It was a reaction to the ISPs bad behavior.
