Netflix announced the blockbuster deal with Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday morning. It has agreed to buy the legendary TV and movie studio and assets like the HBO Max streaming service for $72 billion.
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Soooo, does that mean consumers have one less streaming service to subscribe to or would Netflix just do a price hike to make up for it?
Probably like Disney/Hulu
They’ll try a bundle deal to see if people pay for it, then if not slowly bleed shows from one service to another.
Maybe eventually combine them but they’ll try to keep paying for both as long as possible
I bet it will be more like Prime where they display everything they own to tempt you, but there’s an increasing number of additional subscriptions you actually need to access the content.
This means the would-be buyer will pay WBD billions of dollars if the deal is not completed.
That’s critical because the biggest X factor is regulatory approval. The Trump administration will review any transaction between Netflix and WBD, and some analysts expect a political and legal battle to ensue.
We’re about to see how much Netflix wants to kiss the ring and what lines they’ll cross for Trump.
Larry Ellison also wants Warner Discovery. He’s kissed the ring so much that Trump has to wash the slobber off.
So we’ll see. Larry Ellison is the worst option here, even worse than media consolidation and price hikes, because Ellison wants to be the new Rupert Murdoch.
Yeah, I’m already done with Trek under the Ellison name.
I’ve cut off all these services already though, as an F U to the US threatening to annex my country, and virtually no Americans standing up against that.
Fuck this and fuck Zaslav
It’s sad when this is probably the best outcome if it goes through.
Best outcome would be after the deal is final people stop using Netflix.
How in the ever living fuck does Netflix have the money to buy Warner Brothers? If anything you would think it would be the other way around.
Reminds me of the time AOL bought Time-Warner…
They should legally have to keep all their major mergers in their name. AOL-Time-Warner-Discovery-Netflix is far more representative of the nightmare times we live in.
Stop stealing jokes from Parks and Rec
Ah shit, now there’s going to be a weird silent gap in the middle of the show because the joke was stolen!
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It’s easier for the state to take over media if there’s only one outlet.
Netflix will buy CNN next year.
Does this mean Netflix has to pay the president of the united states of america some grifter money?
So here is an idea:
Ban companies from buying other companies.
Period
It always ends well for a very select few, it never ends well for the consumers
The best way to download movies and shows is to get a VPN, I use airvpn. Install qbittorrent, enable the search function in settings. Update the search torrents, just click the update button. You can download just about anything. My Internet is very slow, especially for uploads but I wait for the share ratio to reach 3 before removing the torrent . This makes sure everybody gets a chance to download. I use alternative down&upload rates in the settings.
I use jelly fin to stream to all of my devices including TVs and tablets. We don’t need Netflix
Oh man, all that content I dont care about that will be merged with all that content I dont care about.
