Amazon Planning Standalone App For Sports Content 48
According to the Information, Amazon is working on a standalone app for watching sports content. Reuters reports: Sports remains one of the biggest attractions for live viewing as U.S. audiences increasingly switch from pay TV subscriptions to streaming apps. The move will likely complement Amazon's effort to double down on sports programming through its Prime Video service, a key channel to attract consumers to its shopping platform.
Amazon already owns the rights to stream games including National Football League's Thursday Night Football franchise and Premier League soccer matches in the UK, setting it up to better compete with sports streaming leader Walt Disney Co. It was not clear when Amazon would roll out the sports app and whether it would go through with the plan, according to the report.
Amazon already owns the rights to stream games including National Football League's Thursday Night Football franchise and Premier League soccer matches in the UK, setting it up to better compete with sports streaming leader Walt Disney Co. It was not clear when Amazon would roll out the sports app and whether it would go through with the plan, according to the report.
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One more Amazon product I can ignore.
You enjoy a sport? Go play it.
You got kids or relatives playing sports? Go cheer them on.
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Agreed. Fuck the disabled and childless!
Disabled and childless can play sports. Did you take one too many hockey pucks to the head?
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Why do you feel that your opinion rates higher than literally tens of millions of other people who enjoy watching sports?
If you don't, then don't. But just because you don't, it doesn't make you superior to them in some way. There's probably some other smug asshole out there that feels the same way about shit you enjoy doing too.
Try this: do what you enjoy, and leave other people to do what they enjoy. And leave the judgement securely in the cesspool you call "thought".
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Ask yourself "who benefits?" Pro sports is about making you the product. And about distracting from real problems - been true since the "bread and circuses" of ancient Rome.
I'm not against sports - which is why I wrote that if people are into them, they should get away from the screen and actually participate at the local level. If you have something against that, it says more about you than me.
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You didn't answer my question.
Why do you think that your method of spending free time in the pursuit of enjoyment is superior to others? And why do you feel the need to be smug about it on the Internet?
The introspection required to answer those two questions may even promote personal growth.
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You didn't answer my question.
Why do you think that your method of spending free time in the pursuit of enjoyment is superior to others? And why do you feel the need to be smug about it on the Internet?
The introspection required to answer those two questions may even promote personal growth.
That's your question, not mine. So, not my problem.
But since you're too stupid/trolish to figure it out:
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None of that answers the two simple questions I asked. Instead, you're sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling LA LA LA while continuing to answer questions nobody asked.
Conclusion: you're just being smug, because you seem to think you're better than other people for reasons that are completely baseless and only exist in your own addled mind.
Your chosen form of entertainment is not better, or worse, than anyone else's. Neither is mine. But acting like it is confirms you are a smug douchebag withou
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Your questions are YOUR problem. Not mine.
I pointed out the physical, mental, and community benefits for my way.
You can't show the same benefits for sitting around watching pro sports. So who's sticking their fingers in their ears and going "la-la-la?" You.
The economic harm of pro sports to host cities is well documented. The same can be said for health problems from lack of exercise.
So just how is your statement:
Your chosen form of entertainment is not better, or worse, than anyone else's. Neither is mine.
- true in any shape, manner, or form? Seems yours is worse, and you haven't even tried
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Oh boy, got me some real live ones here ...
I listed 4 benefits of getting off your ass and actually participating in sports at the local level.
So what do you bring up - people in gyms watching sports on TV. WTF? Seriously - "because they want to watch other athletes." Like they can't do that while participating with other people at the local level?
And if they're watching TV, they're not getting any of the mental benefits of socializing by participating in group sports. So I'd call that a minus, not a
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Thank F**k (Score:5, Insightful)
The amount of unwanted sports contents promoted on the main Amazon Prime Video app is unbearable. I was praying for this day for a long, long time.
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Nah. I'm a pragmatic person. I printed out Jeff's portrait and hung it above my bed.
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Too bad nothing will change to improve that. They'll just be advertising that you can get that content through their new app, as if anybody wanted yet another streaming app to deal with.
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Hear, Hear!
I "cut my cable" a long time ago, partly because of how much it cost per month for loads of channels I never watched (sports anything being a huge contributor to increased pricing for stuff I completely had no interest in)
I think separating it out so that sports folks can pay the full cost of their sportsing and stop letting us non-sports folks vote with our dollars is a good thing.
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My smart TVs come with Samsung TV Plus - about 70-some-odd channels of old content. Right now I've got the Beverly Hillbillies running on one of them.
There's also Tubi as a Smart TV app. And on the computer.
And Pluto TV.
And over-the-air TV with external cheapie antennas.
And then there's video games.
And of course various web sites.
And email, text, voice, and video calls.
And then there's walking the dog and other real-world stuff.
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fuck media barons, sport promotes health (Score:2)
There's media anti-siphoning laws where I live, so the top tier of most events are guaranteed to be available to FTA networks to bid on and host. You should get your politicians to look into something similar.
Ditto for local content requirements.
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In school, it just wastes time and resources...while creating division amongst students.
We're one of the fattest fucking countries in the world. I could give a toss about pro sports-ball but we should absolutely be doing more to promote sports in schools.
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Fuck off...we've had P.E. for years and it's done nothing. Only a small percentage of students actually play sports...meanwhile the majority of students are (or should be) trying to learn real life skills.
Learning how to live a healthy life is a life skill genius. It's probably a more important life skill than at least half of what kids are taught in schools in fact.
What the hell is "promoting" going to do? It's not as if anyone is unaware of the fact that they can go run around and play a game.
Developing healthy lifestyle habits in kids is well known to effect their health later in life. I was raised eating healthy and grew up with an emphasis on sports and playing outside and here I am today in my 40s with a waist size one inch larger than when I was in high school. Meanwhile I am absolutely not one of those lucky ones who can sit on
Future destination of most MLB teams (Score:1)
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More than that, I think next year we're going to hear about Amazon making a very big 7-digit-per year bid on media rights to college sports from one of the "Power 5" conferences - the Pac-12. It would be a shot across the bow for the traditional media networks that make actually enjoying the games almost impossible by dictating start times that have the game ending past 1:00a in eastern time, or cable carriers that just flat refuse to carry the "Pac-12 Network" leaving fans with no possibility to see the g
"Religion is the opiated of the masses." - Marx (Score:2)
Actually, Karl, it's sports. Let that stuff die and people might find more wholesome and interesting ways to spend their time.
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Actually, Karl, it's sports. Let that stuff die and people might find more wholesome and interesting ways to spend their time.
Turns out the masses can do multiple drugs at the same time - sports, religion, real drugs, social media ... they think they're "multi-tasking", but they're not very good at it.
Re: "Religion is the opiated of the masses." - Mar (Score:5, Insightful)
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How does this not describe almost everything that exists on every streaming platform described as "entertainment"? That's the whole point of the entertainment to sap up resources for no other purpose than to pass time without feeling the misery of our outside existence.
Re: "Religion is the opiated of the masses." - Ma (Score:2)
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Well, look at the games that deal with everything from off-season trades and roster management to coaching. There's lots of nerds playing them.
As for actually playing a sport being an "escapist activity that saps up resources", isn't all entertainment an "escapist activity?" And isn't physical exercise playing with others something our parents encouraged - "go outside and play" because it has physical, mental, and social benefits?
So far from "sap up resources", it is a way to build up the most importan
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To be fair I grew up playing multiple sports pretty hardcore throughout my entire childhood and am therefore completely aware of their depth meanwhile I get kind of bored watching them on TV and so have no interest in pro sports. Even at a Super Bowl party, I spend far more time out of the sports watching room eating snacks and socializing then I ever do watching the game.
On the other hand I don't care what other people do with their leisure time as long as I'm not getting shit from them for pursuing "child
Re: "Religion is the opiated of the masses." - Ma (Score:2)
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It helps to have a rooting interest. Watching two teams you don't care about isn't nearly as interesting as following one team all year. Investment.
I have plenty of local pro sports teams in my area to root for, many of them are often quite successful in fact (I live in Northern California, home of the 49ers, Giants, and The Warriors). Never the less watching pro sports on TV is just not for me as I derive no enjoyment from it.
Plus, you get to enjoy the schadenfreude of watching the opposing fan base melt down on forums like this one as your team kicks their teams butts.
Ugh, big no thankyou on that. Seems like pointless drama to me but to each their own of course.
Re: "Religion is the opiated of the masses." - Ma (Score:2)
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Hahaha, that's certainly not true where I live!
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So people had no other best choice but to turn to sports.
God is dead (Score:1)
His point -- referenci
Thank you (Score:1)
I hope all the sports in the world will end up there and no longer annoy us people who think sports is something you DO instead of watching.
stand alone app means (Score:3)
knowing Amazon, the stand alone app could mean a stand alone subscription fee.
Great? (Score:2)
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