beenz
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HBO is very stingy with the episodes of their shows lately.
at least with the shows on showtime, you pretty much get 13 episodes each year.
HBO Silicon Valley Season 3 Thread
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HBO is very stingy with the episodes of their shows lately.
at least with the shows on showtime, you pretty much get 13 episodes each year.
NoGutsNoGLory
Superstar
HBO is in a little bit of trouble, they have some good niche shows but outside of GOT they got nothing. There are so many new players to the game that its hard to stay one step ahead anymore like they used to. They need a really good fukking show and fast so that they dont fall behind soon.
beenz
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I agree. we're at the point where netflix and showtime have far superior original programming. and netflix seemingly has endless original programming. showtime gives you 12 eps a season. netflix gives you 13. HBO stingy as hell giving u like 8-10 episodes.
NoGutsNoGLory
Superstar
My friend works for Time Warner but on the business side and he told me they are scrambling like crazy to get something new in. They have to compete with the other networks and streaming to get anything which means paying way more than they normally wouldfor the most talented writers. GOT is killing them ironically because of its huge budget. The new head of HBO is totally fukked too, they have new shows already in production before they named him and he can only hope they do well.
Lets not forget Amazon is on the come up as well. Man in the high castle was an excellent show. Netflix cornered Marvel which turned out to be a great move on their part. HBO has to have this new cyborg show hit big or like you said they are in deep shyt since they are only going to have 1 more full season of GOT left to broadcast.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
another issue for HBO/time warner is the price. a standalone HBO now subscription cost $15. whereas netflix's entire library cost between $8 and $12 depending on the # of screens you have and if you want 4K. HBO cannot compete with that.
on top of that, netflix is offering their original content in 1080p and 4K. I'm not getting anywhere close to that picture quality on my HBO.
Comcast spits out a true 1080 image, if youre with ATT/Directv youre getting an upscaled 720p image. I cant say anything about the other carriers since I havent used them for 7+ years.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
comcast doesn't here. the options on my cable box don't even have 1080p on there. I can certainly tell the difference between what I'm getting and the full 1080p I get on netflix.
Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
Superstar
why aint they just make another app for the video chat that denish was using?
fam added the middle out shyt to the compressor and ended up with the goat video chat app
fam added the middle out shyt to the compressor and ended up with the goat video chat app
Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
Superstar
the pied piper app sound like a torrent the way he was describing it
JetLife
/ SOHH /
Based on what we know, it's essentially Dropbox with god-tier compression, distribution, and indexing that also has machine learning / applied neural networks that allow the system to scale with future exponential/hockey stick growth. So, essentially it'll never have it's "twitter fail whale" moments or a more local example would be thecoli stuttering during big nba games. So user growth will create more efficiency instead of creating a scarcity of resources.
They can't really simplify it because they still haven't really defined a product, they just put an extensive menu on it. It's like building a god-tier engine that can race in F1, but can fit in a consumer car, then putting inside a Prius, and not understanding why people don't "get it" right away.
I'm surprised they haven't pulled the user logs on the 12k DAUs. They should have segmented their users into power users (login daily, stay onsite all day, upload a lot), lurker/long tail users (login daily, 0 presence on the site, few files uploaded), and casual users (everyone in between) and found out their use case and how to drive growth in each segment.
They HAVE to pull logs after the Jared click-farm to figure out where the sudden burst of growth came from. We all know Gilfoyle has god-mode built in and is suspicious as fukk re: Jared, so he has to blow up the spot next week.
If this was the real world, they would pitch to Snapchat to be the content delivery backbone since Snapchat is seriously one of the worst engineered apps, but has the most important market with explosive growth where something like PiedPiper would be applicable to help them.
man that commercial they had with that pied piper office assistant had me rollin. shyt looked just like the old ms office assistance clippy
