It looks like it’s mostly focused on renting and buying movies on demand. We are talking about pay a fee and streaming all you want.

That’s a completely different market. They are not trying to compete with Netflix and in fact have a deal with them that Netflix has first right of refusal to stream any Sony film

https://www.sonypictures.com/corp/press_releases/2021/0408

Sony created KPop Demon Hunters and sold the streaming rights to Netflix .

If you look at any of their popular back catalog TV content, it is all being streamed on other services.

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embedding-shape 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> It looks like it’s mostly focused on renting and buying movies on demand. We are talking about pay a fee and streaming all you want.

Then you might have to look a bit closer :) There are plans out there that give you a fixed monthly fee and stream all you want, so that effectively makes it a streaming service even by your definition.

Not saying they are trying to compete with Netflix, but they do have a streaming service.

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raw_anon_1111 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You can’t watch the full catalog of movies they have for rent or purchase for one price.

You know you’re being pedantic.

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embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Same is true for Amazon, you can't watch 100% of the content unless you "Buy"/Rent, so is Amazon Prime Video not a streaming service?

You know you're trying to be misleading, but not everyone falls for those sort of things.

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pests 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Prime video is more than just prime content, they are more of a marketplace where you can watch competitors content as well. Like their web marketplace for tv and movies. That's why you can sign up for things like HBO and even Apple TV directly via Prime.

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raw_anon_1111 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No you’re being pedantic. Compare Amazon Prime Video subscription content to Sony’s subscription content.

Is Amazon creating new content and giving other streaming services first dibs on it? Are they putting their back catalog content on other streaming services en masse?

Is Sony spending billions of dollars to produce content to go on their own streaming service like Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Peacock, HBO Max (for now)?

Heck is HBO releasing theatrical movies and giving first run streaming rights to other streaming services?

You’re not making serious arguments if you don’t see the difference between every other streaming service and what Sony is doing or seeing what companies with both streaming services and movie studios like Warner Bros, Disney, and Paramount are doing.

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embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You're making this way more complicated than it is, no need to compare against others to understand if what Sony is doing is a streaming service or not.

So I guess back to basics:

> A streaming media service, also known as streaming service, is an online provider that allows users to watch or listen to content, such as films, TV series, music, or podcasts, over the Internet

Fairly simple, I think at least. So with that, is what Sony is doing a streaming service, regardless of what HBO/Amazon/their mother is doing? Yes, in my humble opinion, what Sony is offering lets users "watch or listen to content, such as films, TV series, music, or podcasts, over the Internet", so it is a streaming service.

I disagree it's pedantic, it's just understanding what terms mean, in this particular case, what "streaming service" means.

	▲	shermantanktop 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		These are two businesses, both under the Sony name: content production and content distribution. Very likely they are two different divisions with different P&Ls. Every “streaming service” is a distributor. Some of them are also content producers. Content production is also a bizarre mini world of VC-type funding and shell/temporary production corporations. Some companies lean heavily into that, some do a more traditional in-house studio model, some do both.