Comments on: Why Netflix Won’t Get What It Wants Most For Christmas http://paidcontent.org/2010/12/02/419-why-netflix-wont-get-what-it-wants-most-for-christmas/ The economics of digital content Mon, 20 May 2013 23:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: green stool http://paidcontent.org/2010/12/02/419-why-netflix-wont-get-what-it-wants-most-for-christmas/#comment-81214 Sat, 04 Dec 2010 08:45:32 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/12/02/419-why-netflix-wont-get-what-it-wants-most-for-christmas/#comment-81214 The Post mentions that this is a “war” over this issue brewing between the networks and studios, which is a little hard to believe. Not that these two factions don’t have their disagreements, but considering most of them are owned by the same conglomerate, they both have a vested interest in protecting the current windows and playing defense against Netflix.

]]> By: Chris Bagley http://paidcontent.org/2010/12/02/419-why-netflix-wont-get-what-it-wants-most-for-christmas/#comment-81213 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:07:01 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/12/02/419-why-netflix-wont-get-what-it-wants-most-for-christmas/#comment-81213 I guess this is good news for me as a NetFlix subscriber, but I can’t see how NetFlix is going to beat Hulu at this game when Hulu is owned by TV studios. And if NetFlix is paying $100,000 per new episode, it’ll be less profitable and less able to buy movies, so I guess we’ll be seeing less “net” and/or fewer “flix.”

An internet video company has to find a good niche and dominate that niche in order to be profitable, just like in a lot of other markets. I work for an internet video service (www.fargotube.com) and I can tell you that we’re not trying to outdo NetFlix or Hulu at their own games. We’re carving out a niche in video-based fan sites for musicians, small-scale filmmakers and video-based instructors.

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