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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
I guess you are in the US. For you, WB content was already available. But you see, they never bothered to make that content available for most of the rest of the world. Netflix, on the other hand, is available most anywhere. This is exactly what it says on the can - more choice and greater value for me.

>>utucur+52
What's written on the can reads "please don't sue us, we're not a monopoly, and we will not gouge users".

On the other hand Netflix will make its subscribers fund everything without reducing their income, and will not give these subscribers at least half of that content, because, why not?

>>bayind+l4
If approval of this resulted in Netflix being required to release their crap on DVD (eventually) it’s actually be a win for consumers.

DVDs at least keep working.

>>bombca+na
Yes. However, I'd take a downloadable, well encoded and chapter marked mp4 over any DVD. 1080p SDR is enough.

I can just store it in my NAS and watch it whenever I like it.

>>bayind+Pc
Somewhat same end result; DVDs just are more palatable to the studios - you argue it is for “libraries”.