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By Solandri on 6/3/2012 3:36:36 PM , Rating: 2 I think what were
going to have in the end is each movie studio is going to have
their own pay streaming service. Only the smaller studios will
stick together until their content catalog reaches a point of
value where they can break away. Netflix is a middle man
eventually the studios will have their own streaming service.
I'm not so sure. Technically the grocery store is a middleman.
The lettuce farm, dairy farm, the pig slaughterhouse, the
commercial fisherman could all sell to you directly. But there's
value in putting all these things in a single store where
customers can buy all they need on a single trip. Just because
someone's a middleman does not automatically mean they're adding
no value.  For example, Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft do not do
regional market analysis to decide how many units of their
console to ship to each geographic region. Distributors and
retailers like Best Buy do that,