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Why Streaming Struggles
tyler69:
i understand, but i did not ask about what companies will survive or who-will-have-what-market share. companies die for different reasons. in my opinion the market will consolidate and we will see very few big players eating the pie. smaller streaming vendors will either be bought or die.
my question was rather meant on the subject itself, since the topic implies to me that jriver does not think streaming itself has a future.
JimH:
--- Quote from: tyler69 on August 01, 2017, 06:00:12 am ---... the topic implies to me that jriver does not think streaming itself has a future.
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I didn't ever say that. I think streaming is important. I thought that ten years ago. We were working with Musicnet, later Medianet, when they were sold by the record labels in 2005:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/13/labels_sell_musicnet/
tyler69:
thanks for claryfing. what a real problem with streaming is, is the fragmentation of availability: some content is available with vendor a, some is with vendor b. people do not want to have several subscriptions in order to see all champions league soccer games or listen to all their favorite bands. combining the services and offer one touchpoint to the customer is the way to go i think.
stewart_pk:
--- Quote from: JimH on August 01, 2017, 06:16:40 am ---I didn't ever say that. I think streaming is important. I thought that ten years ago.
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Well that's good to hear. But I don't really understand the point of this thread. We know that streaming services will continue to replace discs and file downloads. It's happening day by day every day. Who cares if the big major players are cutting each others throat with pricing; you know when that happens it's the consumer who wins.
So that raises the question of where does that place MC in the future being predominantly a file player.
FWIW I don't really use streaming services. Physical discs and some legal downloads are how I consume my media.
Hendrik:
--- Quote from: stewart_pk on August 01, 2017, 10:59:52 pm ---So that raises the question of where does that place MC in the future being predominantly a file player.
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We would generally be happy to have a place in playing streamed content (if the conditions are right), but the streaming providers are generally not interested in that, not in music and even much less so in video.
I can only imagine that they view MC as giving you too much freedom and as such doesn't fit into their quite restrictive model on how they want to control your listening.
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