TW Cable Chief Disses Netflix Streaming

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Pete Baldwin 12/5/2012 | 4:16:35 PM

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"...seven or eight hours of TV,which is how … people use our service"

Wow. When they put it like that, cable sounds downright evil. :)

 

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Jeff Baumgartner 12/5/2012 | 4:16:34 PM

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Looks like Britt and Time Warner Inc. chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes are on the same page here, or at least appear to be using similar talking points when it comes to Netflix.

 Bewkes, at the same conference and in response to questions that Netflix is looking to pay as much as $100K per in-season episode of TV shows for streaming, said: "If you took your example [of price], which is a measly little offer... that is not attractive or incremental" versus the fact that studios and conent companies can rake in millions using syndication cycles and DVD release windows.

"I don't think it makes sense" for content firms to pay big money to produce high-quality TV series and for networks to pay high price tags for them only to have them show up on a low-priced Web service, which pays only a fraction, he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

 

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Jeff Baumgartner 12/5/2012 | 4:16:34 PM

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Keeping you captive is a good thing... for them, anyway. :)

Now if it all goes OTT and they can charge bandwidth overages and build in the funding of network upgrades...

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ycurrent 12/5/2012 | 4:16:33 PM

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This is Google TV's fundamental problem as well.  Can't get content if you aint gonna pay for it.  I'm willing to bet that changing models for DVD windows benefits Netflix streaming before the adoption of video advertising benefits Google TV.

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IRM 12/5/2012 | 4:16:23 PM

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Yeah, about those $Millions from syndication and DVDs...I think that burning smell is coming from the studio/content system.  Surely, a Web 2 world holds some interesting new content ideas. Might be a better way to spend my 7 or 8 hours.

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