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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Higher costs are inevitable. All I have said is that streamers of scripted content will provide better value for money than conventional channels, which to my mind is pretty obvious. The flexibility subscribers have to change providers without hassle is an added bonus.
The problem with sport is that the limited number of sports that attract a large percentage of viewers encourages those with big pockets to scrape up all the goodies for themselves. That inevitably puts up the price because the bids are so high. Sky and BT have as much as said they have had enough, so they are both likely to pull out of the market altogether before long.
Where dramas and documentaries are concerned, there is no limit to the amount of content that can be produced as originals, and so the price of all that is relatively low. Competition helps the consumer in that area.
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Does competition help the end user? All of these middlemen outbidding each other for content drives up costs, not reduces them. With fewer consumers to absorb the costs from. The end user loses the economies of scale that legacy platforms had in driving down prices from studios and third parties, who generally didn’t have many places to go.