E Unit

Maybe the guys running the DCU movies got transferred to running this service.

DJariya

https://deadline.com/2019/02/friends...ce-1202555077/

Friends will leave Netflix as soon as their contract expires and become exclusive to the WB streaming service.

E Unit

More evidence Warner’s still hasn’t gotten their shit together and create an expansive service that will cover all of their properties.

DJariya

Netflix wasted $100M to re-sign Friends after the initial contract expired. Money that could have gone to a couple of new original shows.

DJariya

Some very early details about this service:

DJariya

The CW's Netflix deal expires this Spring. Looks like their content will likely head to this service.

E Unit

Warner's has $0 dollars to waste. I doubt Friends at this point will lead to a heavy increase of subscribers to this service.

DJariya

And your point?

WB's service is still in the very early stages of gathering content. That article I posted is saying that it will likely head to this service when the deal with Netflix expires at the end of 2019. Who was saying that Friends is going to be the big draw? I wasn't.

I just said Netflix overspent to keep Friends another year. $100M for 1 year is ridiculously expensive for catalog content of 1 show that's no longer airing. They could have used it to produce new content.

E Unit

But you cited Friends as a factor. Netflix blowing $100 million probably made sense for them at that time. Netflix can easily afford it. Now in the next 5 years or so, who knows? But at the rate Warner's keeps screwing up these rollouts, and the fact that they're in the early stages in development, it'll only make it harder for them to complete - especially if they're mostly relying on contracts for shows to expire. I haven't read anything on new stuff they're making that's not for fanboys at this point. I'm all for any new service that will give Netflix/Hulu/Amazon a run for their money, but even looking long term, WB has no viable plan to keep them in the streaming game.

DJariya

All I said was that Friends will become an exclusive to their service eventually, which was reported in the article. No where was I saying...."Oh my fucking God, Friends is is like totally exclusive to this service and that's going to draw the masses and attract millions of subscribers"

Well, its just and a wait and see thing at this point.

TheBigDave

Actually, Friends is hugely popular with teens and young adults. I'm not saying it'll bring in tons of subscribers. But it's amazing how many kids I see talking about this show.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...y-love-friends

Deftones

WB just needs to fold DC Universe into this. If they do that, I'll just subscribe to the WB service for the DC stuff.

Giantrobo

Yeah making people who want DC Content split between this service and DCU is fubar'd

dex14

This.

Shannon Nutt

I suspect this will eventually happen, but not immediately. They may try it as an add-on first...meaning you can add it at a lower rate, but you'll still have the separate apps.

robin2099

This whole thing is in the planning stages. I know this is hard but maybe we can *gasp* wait for more news. This is not as far ahead as Disney's is and even then Disney has plenty of screwups as well in terms of starting their network.

Shannon Nutt

Word came out today that pricing is probably going to be $16 to $17 per month, although Warners plans to make HBO part of it.

fujishig

If they do this they probably lose the comics part, though, which is actually the best part of the service.

E Unit

I've never used the comics, so nothing gained or lost by that for me, The big issue is having HBO as part of the service. And unless that DC Universe one is part of it, then I'll just stick to having HBO as a standalone.

fujishig

HBO Now is like 15 bucks a month right now (which seems ridiculous) so if you already have that it's almost a no brainer to pay a buck or so more for everything else.

Deftones

Yeah, if this includes HBO/Cinemax as rumored at that price, it's almost a no brainer. Even more so if the DC Universe stuff gets folded into it. Hell, if the Sunday Ticket goes away from DirecTV after this season, it would be the kick needed to bail from them and go to something like YouTube TV + this service.

E Unit

dvd-4-life

There currently is an article over at Cord Cutter News that says that A T & T is planning on merging Direct TV Now with the new Warnermedia streaming service. There isn't anything concrete information about this including price,etc.

HBO is 5 dollars at Direct TV Now (which includes HBO Go which is supposed to be the same as HBO Now).

Giantrobo

I don't want any of this. I just was DC Universe left alone and allowed to do it's thing. Sigh...

beatboks1

It would be years before it could ever get to that point. 6 years ago my Foxtel pay TV service was $90 a month. That was without a sports package and only 2 extra packs and with pay boxes in two rooms.

now I have Netflix for $15, Amazon for $7, foxtel now (same pay providers streaming service) for $25 (to stream 1/3 the channels I used to pay for), and DCU for $11(converted to $AU) + $7 (VPN provider). For $30 a month less I get over double the content I got for $90 previously (my current streaming services include content that would have been two extra packs on foxtel for another $15 each)

If I wanted to add the sports to my old pay TV it would have been $130 a month. I can add that now with Kayo for $30 (if I had any interest in watching sport on TV which I dont). So ATM for $90 i can get what would have cost me $160 on caple/pay but with the advantage I can watch what I want when it suits me and not when the pay service chooses to air it.

added to which the pay provider has advertisments as well.

when Warner and Disney launch their streaming services they are goingnto give alternatives in the market. Competition fosters price war. If they dont get the sign ups they need then demand and supply will make them shift their price to where the market will pay for the services. What this means is they will need to control costs to deliver a service for the price the market will pay. Ro do this they will have to choose what content they tie up on servers and for how long.

for example the Foxtel now package I mentioned some shows like Game of Thrones you can watch seasons worth and it's all there right from the begining, other shows they only keep the last five or six or eight episodes. It all comes down to how often the shows are streamed and what space they can give them.

Disney and Warner obviously have access to a vast Library of content. They are however not likely to keep all of this exclusive because they still make massive revenue from it by on selling it. As I understand it The CW shows for example do not make them any money just on CW it's only after they have been on sold to other providers that they actually make a profit. What this will look like is more than likely it will stream on their service first and be available on others 6/8/9 months later.

Similarly it's unlikely that Warner is going to put everything it has on it's HBO, Turner Bleacher Report, CNN or it's Production house on one service only, doing so would mean people don't need the other services they sell and cut into that buisness.

what we are far more likely to see is a service that takes chunks here in there to give you an alternative something that gives people an alternative to HBO that doesn't have everything of HBO forgive those who want to watch sports that's on the Bleacher Report that don't pay for the week to report but hey I wanted this other stuff it's a totally new market