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Originally posted by Bey'Knight
If I'm right about the exclusivity inclination then it does make sense. Price difference has to be discernible otherwise it defeats the purpose of having one in the first place.$12/ month subscription fee over $10 doesn't really say anything but a $20 tag piques my curiosity.
Netflix is more comparable to Spotify than it is to Tidal though. I guess a notch up from that would be a streaming service that offers cinema quality movies whilst there are still raking in at the box office.
It's too early to tell who's losing and what not. The average person is way too myopic. I'm in an industry that endures between 15 to 20 years to break-even and that's for 1 in a 100 drug subtances that make it past the screening phase. I don't see any of it as greed, the music industry has been hit way harder with illegal consumption than the movie industry. There's the ceiling mindset that once u acquire a certain amount of wealth, venturing into new business opportunities is seen as greed which absolute crock! The world does not evolve by rich people sitting on their laurels. The crabs (in a barrel) complaining dont realise that it's the below the riches line that will have their coins truncated.
I'm not expecting Tidal to rival Spotify's subscriber numbers. I think that's clear to everyone involved. The costliness is relative cus its being compared to similar service but technically $20 is the equivalent of just 2 albums .. if that. Like someone said, there's an overwhelming sense of entitlement when it comes to music. I don't think people even think of it as an art form in the vein of paintings, drawings, carvings and all the other "artsy" decor we fawn over. People bringing up youtube like it's not part of the problem lol
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You can't watch cinema quality movies at your home, since a majority of people don't even have tv's with that size or aspect ratio. There is no service like that, and it would be nearly impossible in 2015 to stream movies of that size. However the highest quality besides UHD is full HD which is what Netflix offers. And price is important. Just because its $20 doesn't mean you're going to get it. People will be more likely to shell that much on video or video games than on music. Having it at $10 while saying why you're better than the other competitors will have more people interested.That's like increasing the price of beef, so people will just buy chicken instead. But by having them at a similar price increases options. Like I said before price elasticity, music is something that's elastic.
Music is not seen as artsy. But at least with movies and tv shows you have a variety of choices and rarely do they have one thing missing on one service versus another. But it is the music industry being greedy. Greediness hurted them when they offered expensive Cds in 2000, and forced you to buy the album and have it be filled with filler just for that one song. Then artists attacked services like iTunes saying it kills music and takes away their money. The music industry is quite famous for their anti-consumer policies.
And its not that people are entitled, they are the ones buying the music. And Youtube isn't the problem. When MTV stopped playing videos where else were people to go?
Just when Run This Town was about to go 100M? 
