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clrmoney
10/28/2016 10:45:43 AM
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AMC Content
AMC has a lot to offer and is one of my favorite channels so them coming up with something new like video part of it for pay tv is great.
Adi
10/28/2016 6:55:26 AM
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Re: AMC's Local Moves
@afwriter - I think it's just that the local team sees an opportunity here. There's less competition - launching a news channel in the US today would be rather brave unless there is a clear differentiator (Al Jazeera, maybe). But they are on the look out for local or localized content in some of these countries, and studio talk shows are the cheapest TV genre to produce. I don't think there's a global plan here for AMC.
JohnBarnes
10/28/2016 12:39:50 AM
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Re: Preempting Piracy
faryl,
Streaming availability can reduce and sometimes eliminate piracy, but may not be cost-effective; if the price you can charge goes to near zero too fast, you're hosed, whether because pirates pushed it there or you chose to go there. AMC needs slower pirates!
JohnBarnes
10/28/2016 12:36:24 AM
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Re: AMC's Local Moves
mhhf1ve,
I think that's half of why Central Europe is a good testbed for this kind of programming, i.e. a population of early-adopters who adopt early because it's the first time they've been able to get tech for the purpose at all -- that leapfrog effect we were talking about recently in another topic. The other half is probably that it's hard to find more diversity of language in a smaller space in the developed world. So what will work in Central Europe will likely work anywhere.
(A bit like the way American pollsters used to study reactions to things in Peoria, Illinois, which happened to have a demographic/economic mix, at that time, very similar to the US as a whole). Central Europe, like the world, is hungry for technical innovation, and also like the world, speaks a wide array of languages, many of which are not closely related.
afwriter
10/27/2016 7:33:53 PM
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Re: Shudder
It's actually just an app that provides content in the horror genre. The selection and UI just aren't as good as some others out there right now.
faryl
10/27/2016 7:32:02 PM
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Preempting Piracy
If the reality that content is being pirated and available online by 6:30pm, I don't see why they wouldn't just make shows legally available to stream the same time they air.
It strikes me that content providers are still in a mindset of placing a premium on on-air, live viewing and are losing potential revenue by not just making it legally available sooner.
faryl
10/27/2016 7:06:19 PM
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Re: AMC's Local Moves
I agree. I wonder if they are acquiring existing stations, so it's more of an investment than hands-on operational?
faryl
10/27/2016 7:02:45 PM
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Re: AMC's Local Moves
I miss being able to watch PBS content online. They have such great quality programming, but as a cord-cutter I have to catch the shows when they air live, since they've made most of their online content for donors only.
(I get that they need to be able to fund it all and would gladly pay if I could
afford to - just selfishly I wish they still had it for free!)
faryl
10/27/2016 6:54:24 PM
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Re: AMC TWD
I like that they made the TWD premiere available for streaming without a subscription. :)
But now that you mention it, now that Breaking Bad & Mad Men are over, aside from TWD & Better Call Saul, I don't think I watch anything on there. If I do, it's on Netflix or Hulu so I don't realize it's AMC's content.
faryl
10/27/2016 6:48:59 PM
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Re: Shudder
I'd never heard of shudder before.
Even though it's not as good as a roku, would you recommend it for mobile viewing?
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