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Disney+ vs. Apple TV+? Now You Can Play Streaming Fantasy Sports
We break down Peak Streaming to its parts — and let you bet on the winner
What should you watch right now? In the era of Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu, the answer seems to be: everything. As you’ve heard by now, suddenly everything is not nearly enough. Apple, AT&T (HBO), Comcast (NBC) — and as of today, Disney — have launched or announced new streaming services to satiate (and complicate) your entertainment choices.
This sounds like a boon for consumers — and a rather grim Game of Thrones-style situation for the actual companies. But in some sense, the opposite is true.
As competing services fling billions of dollars (and creative latitude) at prestige TV’s hottest showrunners, sifting through the onslaught of new choices is going to be a headache for viewers. By one estimate, we’re already closing in on 500 original scripted shows. The Los Angeles Times recently calculated that subscribing to every current or pending streaming service it could identify would cost about $350 a month, not including the cost of internet access. Yay?
But what will make this moment historical is it is a rare glimpse into what happens when a slew of hypersuccessful companies end up in the…
