<story><title>Netflix Is Why AT&amp;T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/13/netflix-why-att-bought-time-warner-and-comcast-and-disney-want-fox.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JimmyAustin</author><text>The on-demand nexus already works on Apple TV. Say &amp;quot;I want to watch Billions&amp;quot; into the remote and it shows you all the services you can watch it on, then tap through to actually watching it.&lt;p&gt;Now if only it existed on other platforms.</text></item><item><author>lgregg</author><text>&amp;gt; We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub.&lt;p&gt;That is close to existing, it&amp;#x27;d be nice if the top players agreed to open their APIs so you could integrate it into a unified TV external like Chromecast or Firestick. Or, to go further, a unified platform that can process subscriptions and PPV across each library.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; $100&amp;#x2F;month for a dozen streaming &amp;quot;channels&amp;quot; with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other &amp;quot;channels&amp;quot; have.&lt;p&gt;Amen, we cut the cord officially on Friday. We went to $67 (including modem rental) per month plus about $25 dollars in streaming services and $40 for YT TV per month. That&amp;#x27;s still $35 dollars cheaper than what we were paying for Comcast TV and once we buy a compatible modem then we&amp;#x27;ll drop our internet to about $55 per month. We also have renters, so we loop them into YTTV for them to watch to their heart&amp;#x27;s desire for an extra $5 on their rent per month.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Ghost in the Shell&lt;p&gt;Respect just got done rewatching an episode of the TV show.</text></item><item><author>MisterTea</author><text>These companies are obsessed with fragmenting the market for the sake of owning content from production to delivery. I have bad news for them: you&amp;#x27;re going to lose. People don&amp;#x27;t want to go back to paying $100&amp;#x2F;month for a dozen streaming &amp;quot;channels&amp;quot; with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other &amp;quot;channels&amp;quot; have.&lt;p&gt;We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub. Just the other day I had the urge to watch ghost in the shell. Not available on any of the major streaming sites (Netflix, Hulu, Prime) but available on stars via prime. So I have to pay an addition $7&amp;#x2F;month to watch a single show? No thanks. Off to a torrent site or asking around to see if someone has rips or a box set. I have better things to do with $7 like buy dinner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sargos</author><text>Like most features this has existed on other platforms like Android TV way before Apple TV.&lt;p&gt;The parent comment was actually talking about paying for one service that has everything I think not just a shortcut to each disparate service.</text></comment>
<story><title>Netflix Is Why AT&amp;T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/13/netflix-why-att-bought-time-warner-and-comcast-and-disney-want-fox.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JimmyAustin</author><text>The on-demand nexus already works on Apple TV. Say &amp;quot;I want to watch Billions&amp;quot; into the remote and it shows you all the services you can watch it on, then tap through to actually watching it.&lt;p&gt;Now if only it existed on other platforms.</text></item><item><author>lgregg</author><text>&amp;gt; We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub.&lt;p&gt;That is close to existing, it&amp;#x27;d be nice if the top players agreed to open their APIs so you could integrate it into a unified TV external like Chromecast or Firestick. Or, to go further, a unified platform that can process subscriptions and PPV across each library.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; $100&amp;#x2F;month for a dozen streaming &amp;quot;channels&amp;quot; with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other &amp;quot;channels&amp;quot; have.&lt;p&gt;Amen, we cut the cord officially on Friday. We went to $67 (including modem rental) per month plus about $25 dollars in streaming services and $40 for YT TV per month. That&amp;#x27;s still $35 dollars cheaper than what we were paying for Comcast TV and once we buy a compatible modem then we&amp;#x27;ll drop our internet to about $55 per month. We also have renters, so we loop them into YTTV for them to watch to their heart&amp;#x27;s desire for an extra $5 on their rent per month.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Ghost in the Shell&lt;p&gt;Respect just got done rewatching an episode of the TV show.</text></item><item><author>MisterTea</author><text>These companies are obsessed with fragmenting the market for the sake of owning content from production to delivery. I have bad news for them: you&amp;#x27;re going to lose. People don&amp;#x27;t want to go back to paying $100&amp;#x2F;month for a dozen streaming &amp;quot;channels&amp;quot; with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other &amp;quot;channels&amp;quot; have.&lt;p&gt;We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub. Just the other day I had the urge to watch ghost in the shell. Not available on any of the major streaming sites (Netflix, Hulu, Prime) but available on stars via prime. So I have to pay an addition $7&amp;#x2F;month to watch a single show? No thanks. Off to a torrent site or asking around to see if someone has rips or a box set. I have better things to do with $7 like buy dinner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>Roku has a pretty large list of providers and the ability to search across them. It does feel like I&amp;#x27;m being nickle and dined to death though when back catalog stuff I want to watch costs the same as recent shows :(</text></comment>