Obviously you've not delved into the 30+ seasons of "How It's Made" on Discovery+. This was reason enough for us to do an ad-free subscription.
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:46 AM M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm getting a serious case of streamer whiplash. > > Here's what I've inferred from some of the articles I've seen about this > story today: > > HBOMax is doing well, but the content isn't varied enough > Discovery+ sucks on toast* > Let's create a streaming Voltron to take on Disney+ and Netflix > > *OK, that's me editorializing a bit based on my own experience; I got a free > month and couldn't find anything compelling enough to get me to re-up, even > with 2 youngins' in the house. Folding that content into HBOMax just makes > more sense (and ends up being a better value proposition for HBOMax's high > cost of entry, assuming you don't get access via your cableco account. (I > never understood why Discovery+ was a stand-alone service anyway.) > > On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 9:38:08 AM UTC-4 PGage wrote: >> >> AT&T announced Monday plans to spin off its content divisions (e.g. CNN, >> HBO, TNT, TBS, Warners, etc) and merge them with new acquisitions from >> Discovery (e.g. Food Network, Animal Planet, etc) to create a new streaming >> company on a scale to compete with Netflix and Disney (not yet approved by >> the Feds). >> >> Not clear, at least to me, what this will mean for current HBO Max >> subscribers. Will a subscription to Max just give access to all this other >> content? Will they charge even more for subscription to the new (currently >> unnamed) streaming service? That seems unlikely, as the market is already >> saturated, and new players have to focus more on market share than >> maximizing profit. >> >> “Combined, AT&T and Discovery will invest about $20 billion a year in >> content, executives said in a news conference. Zaslav said the new company, >> which has not yet been named, boasts 200,000 hours of content across a range >> of programming genres on “day one,” from sports to blockbuster films and >> reality shows.” >> >> https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/17/att-discovery-hbo-cnn/ >> >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/ce1b4450-c20e-450f-8049-fbc6c2dfb80en%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAPG%2BkUPS8tFVBS5eWo2Vb9-YFV9%3DceH35ADP5cxqqVs-TvFN6Q%40mail.gmail.com.
