Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
23-02-2024, 12:12
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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MGM+ is 100% Amazon owned these days. So why would Lionsgate sell its content to MGM+ and not to the highest bidder?
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I had no idea this was the case.
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23-02-2024, 12:40
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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MGM+ is 100% Amazon owned these days. So why would Lionsgate sell its content to MGM+ and not to the highest bidder?
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It's what they did in Latin America and across Europe in former Lionsgate+ regions, former Lionsgate+ subscribers now get a MGM+ branded service instead which will stream leading premier series from Lionsgate and Starz
https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2023...ionsgate-deal/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu...nd-1235367716/
Outlander specifically isn't actually owned by Lionsgate, it's under license from Sony and wasn't on other Lionsgate+ regions
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I had no idea this was the case.
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Epix had been fully owned by MGM since May 2017 which Amazon acquired and then both the channel Epix and streaming service 'Epix now' were rebranded as MGM+
Amazon added MGM+ Billy The Kid from MGM Television to Prime this week, Fargo moved from Channel 4 to Prime Video and previously seasons left Netflix in a dozen countries over a year ago.
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23-02-2024, 20:54
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
MGM+ is 100% Amazon owned these days. So why would Lionsgate sell its content to MGM+ and not to the highest bidder?
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Because I am assuming that Amazon are going to buy Lionsgate's studio, they're just not in a position to do so yet, until the Lionsgate splt.
And as said by others, Lionsgate material is on Amazon in other parts of the world now. So whether Amazon buy them or not, it looks like their futures are now intertwined.
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24-02-2024, 14:31
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
HBO MAX will launch in the UK in 2026 after the SKY deal expires.
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24-02-2024, 14:44
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The transcript and where it mentions the UK , Germany & Italy is mentioned here
https://seekingalpha.com/article/467...all-transcript
They said another interview about Italy ,Max launch coinciding with Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics.
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24-02-2024, 16:51
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Death to sky Atlantic then
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24-02-2024, 17:03
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Death to sky Atlantic then
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I think the likes of SKY as we know it are on borrowed time tbh, we will see a overhaul of pay tv in the very near future, vm, ee and SKY are already going that way by including other subscriptions such as Netflix, paramount+ into their tv packages.
No OB this isn't the death of linear tv, that will continue on.
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24-02-2024, 17:08
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k
I think the likes of SKY as we know it are on borrowed time tbh, we will see a overhaul of pay tv in the very near future, vm, ee and SKY are already going that way by including other subscriptions such as Netflix, paramount+ into their tv packages.
No OB this isn't the death of linear tv, that will continue on.
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I was ready to jump in until that last sentence.
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24-02-2024, 19:23
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I last watched something on Prime 7 days ago and the ads were 21 seconds long 2 to 3 times an episode, what I'm seeing today are ads 51 seconds with some over a minute, this is what happens with Freevee ads in my experience and the length has now become an issue for me.
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24-02-2024, 20:37
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They’ll all be upping the number of ads until people cancel in significant numbers.
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24-02-2024, 22:20
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They’ll all be upping the number of ads until people cancel in significant numbers.
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If I cancel like I did Netflix then BeeTV will get alot of use. I'm trying to rely on free trials, currently have Apple TV 6 months and Disney, just need a few others.
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25-02-2024, 19:43
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k
I think the likes of SKY as we know it are on borrowed time tbh, we will see a overhaul of pay tv in the very near future, vm, ee and SKY are already going that way by including other subscriptions such as Netflix, paramount+ into their tv packages.
No OB this isn't the death of linear tv, that will continue on.
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I don’t know what makes you so sure. It’s up to the broadcasters whether they think it is worthwhile to continue to maintain their scheduled channels.
I think they will view the linear channels to be more trouble than they are worth, but we’ll see.
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They’ll all be upping the number of ads until people cancel in significant numbers.
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That’s why the correct thing to do is to have a free AVOD version of all streamers. People subscribing to an entertainment service do not wish to have advertisements added. Sky is an absolute ripoff for introducing and maintaining this practice. But even Sky might be starting to come around to this view.
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25-02-2024, 20:13
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
That’s why the correct thing to do is to have a free AVOD version of all streamers. People subscribing to an entertainment service do not wish to have advertisements added. Sky is an absolute ripoff for introducing and maintaining this practice. But even Sky might be starting to come around to this view.
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Awww bless. Do you still believe that?
They’re all mining your data so they can sell it to Tesco. There will be more profits made selling you to advertisers than television to you in the long run.
Big bad Sky didn’t invent TV advertising. None of the entertainment channels on their platform went without advertising revenue, just as there won’t be a streamer doing it either.
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25-02-2024, 21:06
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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HBO MAX will launch in the UK in 2026 after the SKY deal expires.
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Perhaps, perhaps not.
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Originally Posted by TimeLord2018
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Very useful, thanks!
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Originally Posted by 1701-e
Death to sky Atlantic then
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Perhaps, perhaps not.
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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k
I think the likes of SKY as we know it are on borrowed time tbh, we will see a overhaul of pay tv in the very near future, vm, ee and SKY are already going that way by including other subscriptions such as Netflix, paramount+ into their tv packages.
No OB this isn't the death of linear tv, that will continue on.
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There are major changes coming, no doubt about. Hence my perhaps comments about Max launching and Sky Atlantic closing.
All the main media cos are talking to each other at the moment and there could be some big announcements ahead. If Paramount isn't sold this year, it will go bankrupt. It owes a debt repayment about now. They are talking to Warners and Comcast about merging.
One option on the table is for the running of Paramount+ and Max to be taken over by Netflix or fully absorbed by them. But Comcast wants to ruin that party, so I doubt that will happen.
Come April when certain regulatory restrictions on Warner expire, I would expect to start hearing things around then. Most pundits reckon that Comcast will take over Warners, so Sky Atlantic may still live and Max may never see the light of day here. And around the same time, we'll hear whether Elon Musk will make his move on Disney.
Last edited by Horizon; 25-02-2024 at 21:16.
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