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The director’s episode: how tech makes movies

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The Cost of Streaming Content

I think the obvious answer is that there's some sort of money involved in the answer. The only thing I can potentially think of is that they have internal data that shows there is not as much interest in pursuing this. They may have done the cost analysis and it's determined actually our viewers aren't necessarily interested in this. It's a waste of time and potentially a waste of investment for us. Yeah. I mean, we do definitely watch movies differently than we did when we were buying DVDs  in the sense that you don't make an event out of it. You just sit down and find something and press play. If you don't like it, you go watch something else.

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