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We didn’t ask for it, however one other cable-like streaming bundle is coming.
Comcast chief Brian Roberts introduced a brand new three-way bundle that includes Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+ is coming at a diminished value.
Talking Tuesday at MoffettNathanson’s 2024 Media, Web, and Communications Convention in New York, Roberts stated the brand new package deal will probably be referred to as the StreamSaver bundle and will probably be accessible to all Comcast broadband and TV clients.
With out revealing many particulars, Roberts stated that Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+ will “come at a vastly diminished value to something available in the market as we speak.”
Based on Roberts, the aim of this new bundle is to “add worth to customers” and, on the identical time, “take a few of the {dollars} out of” the opposite streaming corporations’ companies.
“We’ve been bundling video efficiently and creatively for 60 years, and so that is the most recent iteration of that,” Roberts stated. “I believe this will probably be a fairly compelling package deal.”
Social Media Says The Bundle Is Mainly Cable TV
The brand new bundle’s reception isn’t met with the joy Roberts hoped for. Most customers on X, previously Twitter, are principally saying that is simply cable tv, which many have lower their twine for, changing it with streaming platforms.
“let me simply go forward and get a landline too,” one individual on X wrote in response to the announcment.
One other consumer wrote, “Cable is again child! (With out the identical residuals for actors although).
One consumer identified this transfer could possibly be out of desperation as a result of the streamers don’t make as a lot cash as they used to.
“They’re all folding. Individually, every enterprise mannequin can’t maintain itself. While you see mergers like this occur, it’s as a result of they’re hemorrhaging cash. They merge to not turn into a superpower however to avoid wasting one another,” the publish on X learn.
Welp.
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