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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I have to disagree. Amazon Prime Video is a serious player in the streaming game.
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Yeah, IDK. We have almost all the streaming options, as Mr. Hitch suffers egregiously with tinnitus, so going out, for almost anything, like a meal in a noisy restaurant, movies, etc. is out of the question, so...we use streaming for entertainment in addition to books and other hobbies.
I don't see Amazon as a heavy-hitter. Sure, they slap up some "original" content, like Bosch (which they've now cancelled, sadly), but most of it is pretty lightweight and/or not executed well. Much of it is what I call message content, rather than simply seeking to entertain. The "rerun" stuff is pretty damned old. If you want to look for the largest cache of B- and C-movies, Amazon has them. While Netflix surely has a lotta cruft, they have such a large catalogue that it's easy to forget the Cruft Factor.
Then you have niche entities, like Acorn and Britbox, sucking up dollars from people like me that will cheerfully pay $5-6/month, so that I can watch oldies but goodies and the occasional newer streamed stuff from NZ and Oz, etc.
I don't know if but the day of the Biggest Player isn't done. I think that niche entertainment might be the way this ends up going. While Hulu is network-owned, it actually has a small, but relatively decent catalogue in the B-C-movie arena and it manages to get some shows (Harrow, for example) that you can't find elsewhere.
The giants like Netflix might be headed toward the Virtual Dumpster. (I honestly wouldn't mind if Netflix did go that way. Much of what they've developed, over the last 3 years, as Netflix original entertainment seems to be ruined. I dread the next season of The Witcher! And don't get me started about some of the others.)
Not that this has s**t to do with Amazon and KindleVella. As with all things, though....I suspect that for those writers whose style leans more toward Dan Brown than Jane Austen, KindleVella might be a real money-maker for them. And more power to 'em, I say!
Hitch