Walmart Reportedly Planning Streaming Service to Rival Netflix

[dora_da_destroyer]

if they spend time curating the classics, especially black shows, i'd cop. netflix is pretty ass. they have a handful of originals i fukk with, but i could easily subscribe for 2-3 months, binge the new seasons, then drop them again. they stay playing games dropping all the classic shows from their platform.

:whatthe:

Spoiler: Yo Walmart...

10/10

I know everybody wants a piece of the pie but this is pure market saturation at this point. I even side eyed Apple having it's own service. It's too late. The game is pretty much sewed up. Nobody hopping on the streaming bandwagon in 2018 or later is gonna make it like that.

Also, the majority of quality shows are going to be courted by larger, more established platforms and most show runners wanna go where the money and status is. Netflix is the gold standard, then Amazon and Hulu. Unless Walmart lucks out with a smash hit like the Handmaid's Tale, who's going to give a fukk? What titles are they going to offer that I can't find on one of the many other platforms I already pay for?

i fully disagree, there are a lot of great shows that people haven't secured the rights to, and as i said, black shows/movies in particular are underserved. i'm betting latino content is too. with the way platforms rotate rights to content and/or don't even get content, there's room for multiple video streaming players. it's not like music streaming where 85%+ of the content is the same on apple, google, spotify, tidal, and amazon. amazon, hulu, and netflix all offer different things...i think the oversaturation point comes with all the studios/channels wanting their own streaming. like i'm not paying for netflix, prime, hbo, disney, CBS, espn...etc. that's like all the music labels having their own platform vs just putting their shyt on spotify.

 

[The_Sheff]

Folks thought streaming was going to be the great equalizer against cable when now the shyt is worse than ever. Everything is fractured to the point where i dont even try to keep up with it anymore. My wife has a netflix subscription that i dont even bother to use because it seems like whenever i want to watch something its not on there. I have little to no interest in their original shows outside of Stranger Things and Narcos as everything else is poor to mediocre including the Marvel stuff (Punisher aside). Amazon is very hard to search through so i stopped trying there too.

Folks going to realize they are paying for 6 streaming services all around 10-15 bucks a piece and not saving much at all for 6 times the hassle.

 

[nieman]

if they spend time curating the classics, especially black shows, i'd cop. netflix is pretty ass. they have a handful of originals i fukk with, but i could easily subscribe for 2-3 months, binge the new seasons, then drop them again. they stay playing games dropping all the classic shows from their platform.

10/10

i fully disagree, there are a lot of great shows that people haven't secured the rights to, and as i said, black shows/movies in particular are underserved. i'm betting latino content is too. with the way platforms rotate rights to content and/or don't even get content, there's room for multiple video streaming players. it's not like music streaming where 85%+ of the content is the same on apple, google, spotify, tidal, and amazon. amazon, hulu, and netflix all offer different things...i think the oversaturation point comes with all the studios/channels wanting their own streaming. like i'm not paying for netflix, prime, hbo, disney, CBS, espn...etc. that's like all the music labels having their own platform vs just putting their shyt on spotify.

And this is why I just kept cable instead of all of that other stuff, with the troubles multiplied, costs fluctuating, charging more for premium movies...all kinds of extra ish that's gonna happen.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Folks thought streaming was going to be the great equalizer against cable when now the shyt is worse than ever. Everything is fractured to the point where i dont even try to keep up with it anymore. My wife has a netflix subscription that i dont even bother to use because it seems like whenever i want to watch something its not on there. I have little to no interest in their original shows outside of Stranger Things and Narcos as everything else is poor to mediocre including the Marvel stuff (Punisher aside). Amazon is very hard to search through so i stopped trying there too.

Folks going to realize they are paying for 6 streaming services all around 10-15 bucks a piece and not saving much at all for 6 times the hassle.

And this is why I just kept cable instead of all of that other stuff, with the troubles multiplied, costs fluctuating, charging more for premium movies...all kinds of extra ish that's gonna happen.

ehh, to be fair, those of us who cut the cord aint subbing to all that. i have netflix (and prime by default of being a prime member). i have kodi (free) for movies/TV shows, my guy's xfinity login (free for me lol), a HD antenna for sports (free), and subscribe to sling during the NBA season when i need to catch games on cable. netflix, sling, and my internet bill come to ~100/month, (50 when i dont have sling). that's compared to 180/month for just cable and internet (not including flix). i'm saving $$...even without the xfinity login, kodi has me on all the shows/movies i'd want to view.

 

[Starboy52]

Cmon Wally World, we JUST got quarterly bonuses back!

 

[Contrefaire]

Netflix is not the gold standard. They can't get everything and even the content they do have gets rotated or they end up losing.They're still Indy, so what happens when every media conglomerate pulls their content off of Netflix for their own streaming service? That's the next step. Netflix can't sustain as a original content only platform. Nothing outside of the media companies can, with regards to streaming. As for Walmart, I would think they would enhance their VUDU platform then outright stream from nothing. I could see companies offering Walmart their first rights to digital/streaming at a premium, because Walmart still sells other stuff, so people still use it.

I'm talking about gold standard in terms of which platforms new shows would rather be on. Walmart is going to need a strong original to get anything like a following early on IMO.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I'm talking about gold standard in terms of which platforms new shows would rather be on. Walmart is going to need a strong original to get anything like a following early on IMO.

nah, they need content people want that netflix doesn't have. there are tons of people who complain about netflix dumping shows. and Walmart is a $500 B company, if they decide to really do this and do it right, there isn't a new show they'd lose to netflix on a dollars and sense basis, maybe preexisting relationships, but the only people who'd go dollar for dollar with them are amazon and apple (if they decided to pursue OG content).

 

[The_Sheff]

ehh, to be fair, those of us who cut the cord aint subbing to all that. i have netflix (and prime by default of being a prime member). i have kodi (free) for movies/TV shows, my guy's xfinity login (free for me lol), a HD antenna for sports (free), and subscribe to sling during the NBA season when i need to catch games on cable. netflix, sling, and my internet bill come to ~100/month, (50 when i dont have sling). that's compared to 180/month for just cable and internet (not including flix). i'm saving $$...even without the xfinity login, kodi has me on all the shows/movies i'd want to view.

See, i look at your setup and i dont understand it. Whats the purpose of Netflix when you have Kodi and can see everything there and more for free. And part of your setup admittedly includes using someone else for cable, which seems to be a common theme among cord cutters, part of the equation is finding someone to mooch off, so your essentially keeping cable just not paying for it.

 

[No Ma’am]

Long live K-Mart

 

[Devilinurear]

Let's be honest, this service is probably going to be total garbage like a lot of that cheap shyt they sell in store.

Not gonna lie though, they done upped their men's clothing game the last few years by carrying Russell and Ben Hogan clothing lines. My favorite pair of khaki pants ever are some Ben Hogans from there.

This is the most middle aged sentace I have read and I totally agree with you.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

See, i look at your setup and i dont understand it. Whats the purpose of Netflix when you have Kodi and can see everything there and more for free. And part of your setup admittedly includes using someone else for cable, which seems to be a common theme among cord cutters, part of the equation is finding someone to mooch off, so your essentially keeping cable just not paying for it.

Nah, cuz kodi basically replaces cable, well the tv show/movie aspect of it. If I didn’t have the login I’d be fine. I just have it since there are so many dedicated apps for each network that make getting to shows easier. But it’s the difference of taking 2 minutes to get to what I need vs 3...not a big deal.

Now some brehs got all sorts of stupid shyt going on for sports, and that’s why I’m like nah. I’ll just pay for sling for 6 months out the year.

And I’ve never checked to see if Netflix shows are on kodi, and most people don’t use kodi as a replacement for Netflix. but I’ve had a Netflix account even when I had cable, like 6-7 years now, and my family uses it and at only $11, no point of cutting it off.

 

[Yinny]

Meh, don’t see a need for this but if they have newer seasons of shows I want to see (network tv) I’ll bite.

 

[Devilinurear]

if they spend time curating the classics, especially black shows, i'd cop. netflix is pretty ass. they have a handful of originals i fukk with, but i could easily subscribe for 2-3 months, binge the new seasons, then drop them again. they stay playing games dropping all the classic shows from their platform.

10/10

i fully disagree, there are a lot of great shows that people haven't secured the rights to, and as i said, black shows/movies in particular are underserved. i'm betting latino content is too. with the way platforms rotate rights to content and/or don't even get content, there's room for multiple video streaming players. it's not like music streaming where 85%+ of the content is the same on apple, google, spotify, tidal, and amazon. amazon, hulu, and netflix all offer different things...i think the oversaturation point comes with all the studios/channels wanting their own streaming. like i'm not paying for netflix, prime, hbo, disney, CBS, espn...etc. that's like all the music labels having their own platform vs just putting their shyt on spotify.

Wal-Mart is not smart enough to cater to minorities

 

[David_TheMan]

Netflix wil lbe out of business in a few years, and Wal-Mart will either buy themout right and swoop up their assets to position themselves better against Amazon

 

[the next guy]

will it have a rollback feature?