On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:11 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Wesley McGee <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The three remaining bidders are The Dish Network (who owns Blockbuster), >> Yahoo and Amazon according to the Financial Times (link to Deadline -- >> http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/dish-plans-blockbuster-streaming-service-to-rival-netflix/). >> The Deadline post is about how Dish wants to take on Netflix through >> Blockbuster, and that Blockbuster may be the win the Starz deal... >> > > These are three of the deep pockets Netflix has been preparing to compete > with in the streaming department. As is noted in the deadline comments, > Dish(Blockbuster) already has online streaming (something not mentioned in > the article itself) - though, also as noted by some of the commentators, it > sucks compared to Netflix. It seems Hulu is valuable to both Dish and Amazon > (which also streams) because of its library - especially of TV shows. I read > somewhere else a while ago that Netflix has found that a huge part of its > streaming is generated by television programs. Getting Hulu presumably would > move whichever winner into the all-you-can-watch mode of streaming, and away > from the pay per view of both amazon and Blockbuster. Nobody is going to > compete with Netflix unless and until they get away from pay per view. > > At first I thought that maybe Starz was just being coy with Netflix, but > this sounds more like they think one of the deep pockets really does want to > be a player come February 2012. All three of these companies have a hell of > a lot more cash than little Netflix. > > Who also wanted to buy Hulu, but didn't have the money? DirecTV. Presumably from the same FT story as the other news (with it being behind a hard paywall, I cannot see it), I learned of it through VentureBeat's summary ( http://j.mp/reuLqi ). VB sees Amazon as the current favorite to win Hulu's hand in marriage because of family (Hulu CEO Jason Kilar comes from Amazon). And as you said, Amazon values Hulu for its streaming service.
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