UmbrellaFish wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 3:20 pm
PatchofBlue wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 11:50 am
I'd be happy for them to do better at curating their current range of content rather than just inhaling anything and everything (as I would for most streaming services), but I'm not here for them just dropping titles, particularly not Disney+ exclusives. Vanishing digital content is no joke. Would love some more transparency about what exactly they're losing.
Ahh thats interesting you feel that way. For me, one of my pet peeves with HBO Max (soon to be just Max) is that company owns a huge collection of old films from Warner Bros, RKO, MGM, United Artists, etc. but they rotate films on and off the service. It’s so annoying to me when I go onto the app to watch a film I’ve seen in their library only to find it’s been removed.
Yeah, (HBO) Max playing musical chairs with all their content is annoying, but I find with them if you'll just wait long enough, you'll inevitably find it again on the service at some point. And they have one of the larger libraries of titles, so I'm never really left wanting for something to watch.
My biggest grievance with most streaming services is their need to have the largest rack of original content, so they'll greenlight generously, but refuse to give their projects the due resources (in production or marketing) for them to reach their full potential. Instead of ten really great shows, you get twenty mediocre shows. That's what I mean when I say they need to do better at curating their existing content instead of taking in everything.
Then there's the issue of deleting exclusive content, leaving potential viewers with no place to see it, and putting it at risk for complete erasure, which is why this vague announcement about Disney removing titles worries me.
