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Old 24th April 2020, 16:36   #8  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit View Post
That's true, I guess having worked for one of the big studios and still running into these limitations I assumed that would be the case for other platforms as well
Other than Disney+, the big studios's official platforms don't have a significant market share. Here's a recent breakdown: https://www.mediapost.com/publicatio...=factoftheday1

Because only Disney has core brands customers are familiar with (Disney, Marvel, Pixar). People just don't know which shows and movies would be on Peacock versus CBS All Access.

Building and supporting premimum experience video players for all the devices people want to watch on (so many generations of OS software running on so many different SoCs!) and the content for those (different codecs, packaging, and DRM systems) takes a 1000+ person engineering org by my estimate.
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