Wonder what they'll do for people who only have TV service, no internet? Would the regulators just let them walk away from that service if there's no other provider in the area? That would seem to be a blow especially to senior citizens who enjoy their TV but are not technologically-versed in...
I don't think Spectrum cares much if they remain in the cable TV business much longer. When they had their spat with Disney back last fall, they said walking away from the TV business was one of the options under consideration. They may quit TV to just concentrate on their internet and mobile...
For only films they have released on disc (and likely paid for and own the commentaries), or for other films too?
I imagine there's a licensing fee involved if the streamer doesn't own the commentary.
I see this repeating with the upcoming Babylon. Budgeted around $80 million and running 3 hours and 9 minutes. I don't see much theatrical upside there.
I'm almost convinced that they provide inferior service for those bargain promotions. I had Hulu for 12 months at $1/month and had nothing but problems with freezing and buffering. I've never had any of those problems with Amazon or Netflix.
Seems odd that they'd degrade the service when hoping...