Posted on 10/17/2018 12:40:10 AM PDT by kaehurowing
Nearly a decade after pioneering international television streaming in the U.S., DramaFever will be shutting down immediately according to parent company Warner Brothers.
“Today, Warner Bros. Digital Networks will be closing its DramaFever OTT service due to business reasons and in light of the rapidly changing marketplace for K-drama content, a staple of the service’s programming,” the company said in an emailed statement after days of silence on DramaFever’s social media platforms. “Warner Bros. Digital Labs, which encompasses more than two-thirds of the DramaFever workforce, will continue operating, serving as the tech engine behind many of WBDN’s operations.”
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Exactly
Oh how very true
This sucks!
Yes see pots number 10
I wonder if now Netflix and Hulu are going to start putting up more KDramas.
I prefer Viki over Dramafever because half the fun is reading the viewer comments.
See tag line.
A couple of thoughts here:
1. The competition has been stiff and I think when Warner Bros took over DF they weren’t as aggressive in getting new, exclusive content to sustain viewers. They have lost some big ones to other sites. Until they got 30 but 17 and Let’s Eat 3 this summer, I considered cancelling my subscription.
2. Once they started again with the good shows, the prices for licenses had gone up significantly and they probably needed to raise subscription prices.
3. The public TV stations for Korea banded together about a year and a half ago and now have their own streaming service as the market has grown. That accounts 2/3’s of the shows. I like this platform.
4. I think AT&T has a plan for a larger service ala Netflix, Amazon Prime and will attempt to fold KDrama into the larger service. Not planning on subscribing to that.
I understand Business, but if you want respect for your company, the abrupt way they ended was awful. People were in the middle of watching shows and they stopped with no warning.
I agree, American television production should be stepping up to the plate and figuring out the formulas that we like. I am a weekend drama fan. I like my birth secrets, cancer, amnesia, death by truck, middle age passive aggressive verbal catfights, and slow motion trainwrecks that end with several couples living happily ever after with a heartwarming family message. These shows last one “season”. There are the 16-20 episode shows and the 50 episode shows. There is no ruining an upstanding character for the sake of drama. When it’s done, it’s done. And then we can move on to the next one.
Didn’t know about this one. I will look into it.
I also have Viki, but DramaFever had more selection.
I won’t go to the other “black market” sites. My wife did that once and gave her computer a virus, which then spread to the router and to my computer. Our ISP then shut down our connection because her computer was spreading the virus on the internet. We finally resolved it, partly by throwing away our computers and router and starting from scratch, but the ISP said if it happened again we would be banned permanently. So that’s not a good solution.
I also think the producers of those programs should be paid a fair price rather than the content being ripped off by the black market sites.
The Maoist/Marxist thing is a crock (not your post, but the use of it by the left); that is the cover to dupe the low-IQ mobs, while the elites pulling their strings are very capitalist indeed! The last thing any Maoist or Marxist government does is give anyone MORE freedom; that is just a ruse to win public support while they claw their way to power. As the Who sang: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”. In “Animal Farm” the older animals pined for the days when the old man ran the farm instead of the pigs...
Or maybe it just wasn’t making the cash. Usually it’s about cash. Might have been losing exclusivity, Netflix has been upping their Asian content, or losing content completely. Capitalism isn’t sentimental.
I’m just glad I got to watch “Goblin” on DramaFever, since Viki doesn’t have it.
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