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Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them (ea.rna.nl)
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[โ€“] 15 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

Late to streaming? Netflix was the first big time streaming service that I ever heard of. The main reason their streaming service was able to take off like it did is that nobody else of significance thought that streaming was worth pursuing. What other companies were offering streaming services at anything approaching scale before Netflix?

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  • [โ€“] -1 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    YouTube and Hulu were basically all starting about the same time. But RealPlayer was the first big one.

    Netflix just had the layout that everyone uses now. The Cable networks had streaming services, just not on demand. YouTube and Hulu also pioneered the on demand layout. YouTube focused on personal experiences so maybe that's why you're forgetting them

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 5 months ago

    YouTube started in 2005, but was not really a "streaming service", it hosted random internet posted videos. The concept of engaging with the big content rights holders wasn't remotely in sight back then.

    Hulu came out a year after Netflix started streaming, by about a year. Hulu was inspired by Netflix's move to have actual traditional media content as a streaming service instead of ad-hoc video uploads like youtube.

    RealPlayer offered technology for websites to provide videos, they themselves I don't recall being a streaming platform in and of itself.

    Whatever one may say about Netflix, they were right there in the beginning with streaming traditional, professional media content. Yes, video playback over the internet wasn't new, but that's a technical detail that enables, but is not the core of the "streaming service" business model.

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