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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7642318" data-attributes="member: 20564">I think that if the businesses continue fragmenting the streaming services, we'll see two things.&nbsp; Some trying to charge a lot and failing (like Amazon's Anime Burst extra-cost), and others without a wide &amp; varied catalog but some interesting shows that price themselves low cost as add-ons.I expect that this trend will give rise to new software.&nbsp; First, one-interface apps/software that search multiple ones so people don't have to go searching, with good bookmarking across devices and such.The other one would be time-shifting, where people pay for legal access to a streaming service for a single month, and the software spends idle hours you aren't using the service to record shows you have pre-selected, so you can watch at your own pace even after the month ends.&nbsp; In the US time shifting programming is legal (was a big thing when the VCR first came out), though of course specific contracts with the streaming services may prohibit it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7642318, member: 20564"] I think that if the businesses continue fragmenting the streaming services, we'll see two things. Some trying to charge a lot and failing (like Amazon's Anime Burst extra-cost), and others without a wide & varied catalog but some interesting shows that price themselves low cost as add-ons. I expect that this trend will give rise to new software. First, one-interface apps/software that search multiple ones so people don't have to go searching, with good bookmarking across devices and such. The other one would be time-shifting, where people pay for legal access to a streaming service for a single month, and the software spends idle hours you aren't using the service to record shows you have pre-selected, so you can watch at your own pace even after the month ends. In the US time shifting programming is legal (was a big thing when the VCR first came out), though of course specific contracts with the streaming services may prohibit it. [/QUOTE]

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