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>>meetpa+(OP)
> Combination Will Offer More Choice and Greater Value for Consumers, Create More Opportunities for the Creative Community and Generate Shareholder Value

No doubt about the last part, but how does merging two giants create "More Choice"? I know corporate double-speak is already out of control and I know they're writing whatever they can do avoid regulators who surely are looking into the acquisition, but surely these executives cannot believe acquisitions lead to more choice, right?

>>embedd+Y
More choice as in more content available to choose from on Netflix?

>>Shaani+s1
So when they say "Consumers", it should really have been "Netflix Customers", as for everyone else there is less choice, only already paying Netflix users get more content.

>>embedd+D1
... don't paying Netflix customers already have access to the whole HBO back-catalogue?

>>swiftc+03
Not here (Germany).

HBO isn't available at all on it's own. It's exclusively sublicensed (until the end of this year) to Sky which has a terrible terrible user experience and of course is another subscription.

Two days ago there was an announcement that HBO Max is to start in Germany in January. Let's see how that develops after the acquisition.