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European Networks Attempt to Take on Netflix and Amazon

7 pointsby cirrus-cloudsalmost 7 years ago

2 comments

calgooalmost 7 years ago
One thing that i believe they need to improve on here in Europe is allowing streaming between countries. There are a lot of people living outside their home countries here, who are not allowed to stream or watch a lot of content from home. I am Swedish but living in Spain. I could see myself getting a streaming service for both Swedish content and UK content, if most of it was there, and not limited by some distribution agreement with Spain so i can not watch it online. This is where Netflix and Amazon has changed things the most i believe. I am able to watch the same show on launch day in Spain, US or Sweden. I don't have to wait 3 months for it to come to some tv channel here dubbed in spanish.
wheresvic1almost 7 years ago
Better late than never as was noted in the article. As an old school capitalist, more competition is beneficial for users. Moreover, I&#x27;m happy to see that local content will benefit from this as there are quite a few cool german language shows.<p>They just need to get the pricing down right but maybe this could be another startup idea - offer a single monthly subscription to all VOD services, heh.