SKT Sky Network Television Limited.

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The key themes experienced by past employees of both companies:

Layoffs/restructure/change/disruption

Time for these two dinosaurs to mate and make a baby.

How apt!!?
If you sit around watching it for long, you get a SAURUS!!!

Dr JPG

Viagra users need to HARDEN UP!

[mistaTea]

The best outcome is having no choice 80% of the time, then giving someone a choice for the remaining 20%.

I know an awesome kiwi company that has this very offering!!!

[Quantitative Easing]

I know an awesome kiwi company that has this very offering!!!

That is what sky needs to be marketing. We are a KIWI company, not a big bad foreign multinational. People are rallying around local businesses now.

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How apt!!?
If you sit around watching it for long, you get a SAURUS!!!

Dr JPG

Viagra users need to HARDEN UP!

and if you've got a crook back, you get a SPINOsaurus

[Akane]

I don't understand people's obsession with Netflix, 95% of the shows are B grade low budget shows that's done by small companies. Sifting through the catalog for "good shows" is a huge waste of time. When I grab a bowl of snacks and just want to zone out on a lazy Sunday afternoon, the last thing I want is to spend 30mins going through their vast catalog of trash to find a gem.

"But it has Stranger things!"

I've watched it already dude, how many times can you watch the same show over and over again :/

To call someone who prefers to have content curated for you a "tard, ok boomer" puzzles me. (referring to the reddit link posted earlier)

[Dlownz]

I don't understand people's obsession with Netflix, 95% of the shows are B grade low budget shows that's done by small companies. Sifting through the catalog for "good shows" is a huge waste of time. When I grab a bowl of snacks and just want to zone out on a lazy Sunday afternoon, the last thing I want is to spend 30mins going through their vast catalog of trash to find a gem.

"But it has Stranger things!"

I've watched it already dude, how many times can you watch the same show over and over again :/

To call someone who prefers to have content curated for you a "tard, ok boomer" puzzles me. (referring to the reddit link posted earlier)

Stranger things
Umbrella academy
The Crown.
That's about it for me.
Neon is way better

[RTM]

The key themes experienced by past employees of both companies:

Layoffs/restructure/change/disruption

Time for these two dinosaurs to mate and make a baby.

Jeeze Ogg, last thing we need is another dinosaur!

[mistaTea]

Stranger things
Umbrella academy
The Crown.
That's about it for me.
Neon is way better

I read an article once that described Netflix’s investment approach as the ‘throwing spaghetti at a wall’ approach.

As in, they throw a bowl of spaghetti at a wall, most of it just falls to the ground but there are a few bits that stick (the hit shows).

Reading their financial statements makes for grim reading imo and supports the spaghetti assertion.

Some say that Sky NZ need to get more into the content creation game. I disagree - I think it’s a mugs game - Sky will do just fine so long as they keep their relationships strong with enough premium content providers.

No doubt some of the existing providers will decide to have a crack at OTT - but I don’t see all (or even most) of them doing that.

In little old NZ getting 1 mil subs for any one platform (which is different to ‘eyeballs reached’) is a mammoth task. And most people will not subscribe to more than a couple of platforms so I just don’t think the economics would stack up for most of the current players that provide content to Sky.

Being an aggregator is a strength that Sky has imo - and maintaining the relationships as well as keeping control of costs is going to be key to their ongoing viability more than anything.

[Ogg]

Neon and Netlfix are both garbage. I pirate all my stuff.

I have Sky TV. Why? Because I like watching garbage when I get home from work. I like the freedom of mindlessly scrolling through channels. You can't do this with streaming, it sucks, it's too laggy and buggy. I like to flick between the channels and imagine what other people are watching. "O look, Big Brother is on, I wonder who else in NZ is watching this, what a crap show, O Look, what's this random show, [watch for 5mins], just lol [switch again], let me quickly switch to the business channel [watch for 2mins] flick again, who's this interesting person on tv [don't even watch the show just watch the person] flick again etc etc etc ."

I like to absorbed into culture.

[tqtq]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertain...ectid=12358295

LOL.

Hmmmn, so a linear TV model is not completely outdated then? Netflix should be able to tailor the content to the user based on their viewing history which is different to Sky, but still an interesting development.

Sometimes it is nice to turn the TV on and have a content curator just decide for you

Covid's delayed production on a lot of new content. Which is why this new feature exists. Customers are now forced to watch the old stuff. It reminds me of going to the video shop back in the day and having to look through the drama / action / comedy section when I'd seen all of the new releases.