The major Hollywood deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones.
  • d00ery@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Good to see the free market in action. I’m sure this merge will be good for consumers, encourage innovation, and ensure that the barriers to entry are not set too high.

  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Curious to see whether they combine HBO and Netflix. In the article netflix answers in an ambiguous way.

    I bet they are trying to calculate whether this will bring in less money if they combine them, because they can’t just jack up the price of netflix subscription to double immediately after the merging of the two platforms. Many have both Netflix and HBO subscription so it might actually reduce the revenue.

    • hanke@feddit.nuEnglish
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      12 days ago

      I’m sure they’ll find a way to make it worse and more expensive than before. They never fail to do so. Line must go up.

  • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Aw man, HBO was the only streaming service I kind of liked.

    Was it mainly for Studio Ghibli movies? Yes.

    Can’t wait for the price hikes to continue.

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Well, at least HBO content might become accessible through a decent UI and keep the same name for more than six months.