Comments on: Verizon’s Redbox service: more Netflix than TV Everywhere

By: Red777

Red777 — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:39:59 +0000

Dave, I think you should get ready to be disappointed. As you may have seen from Coinstar’s prior 8-K filing, the Verizon/Redbox venture’s total project commitment maxes out at under $450 million — about 3 months worth of Netflix’s annual domestic content spend. This is not taking what Verizon’s has licensed for its FiOS linear MVPD subscription service(which it pays somewhere close to $35/sub/mo for content acquisition according to media analysts) for a TV Everywhere experience (as we see from Comcast’s Xfinity, the service stops once you are outside of wifi range as Comcast’s content licenses only allows it to distribute to the home), but rather a de novo Amazon Prime clone (who is estimated to be ramping spending to $250mm/yr for content licensing). Verizon’s belief that it has a “lower cost distribution platform” than other CDN’s really points out how inane its thinking is. Let’s see, we have a cost advantage on the line item that’s less than 10% of COGs, and that’s why it makes up good curators of content. I will give them the benefit of the doubt for now but I wouldn’t be holding my breath if I were you.

By: Red777

Red777 — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:28:29 +0000

jeff actually not true. you’ll be able to get all this goodness- whatever it is even if you are not a Verizon FiOS custoemr because ti is largely targeted “out of footprint”.

By: Dave Mackey

Dave Mackey — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:41:49 +0000

I’m excited for there to finally be a real competitor to Netflix…Right now who is there? No one. Neither Amazon Unbox nor Hulu are really comparable.

By: ERIC

ERIC — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:09:08 +0000

Well Verizon is taking back unlimited services phone and internet services I am seeing enough Red, I wont be staying around for the RED BOX. Metro is looking better all the time

By: Jeff Martens

Jeff Martens — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:09:58 +0000

This is when I get pissed off over the sale of Verizon’s assets in the northwest to Frontier. I’v a Frontier FIOS tv customer but don’t get any of the good stuff like this.