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Industry Focus

Consumer Goods: What Netflix, Groupon, Disney, and Pandora Investors Missed This Week

Industry Focus

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

From streaming video and music to virtual reality and more, we round-up the latest stories from the consumer goods sector.

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0:00.0

Netflix makes a solid argument against democracy on this Consumer Goods Edition of Industry Focus.

0:07.0

Greetings Fools Fools, I am Sean O'Reilly.

0:16.1

Join you here from Fool Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.

0:19.6

It is Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015.

0:22.6

And joining me is the man who's living large

0:24.8

and taking charge, Vincent Chen.

0:26.4

How's it going today, Vince?

0:27.6

You had to go with that lead in, didn't you?

0:29.4

I had to.

0:31.2

For all of our listeners, Netflix actually is not arguing in favor of democracy, but they're, I don't know, kind of limiting downloading options basically.

0:41.0

This is what I'm alluding to.

0:42.0

Yes, exactly.

0:43.0

We've got lots to talk about today, including layoffs at Groupon and Disney getting into virtual reality.

0:48.3

But first, I've been dying to talk about some statements that the product head of Netflix

0:52.2

Neil Hunt recently made in response to

0:54.7

Amazon Prime's move to allow users to download content to their actual, you know, the hard drives.

1:01.8

So Vince, what's actually going on here? Sure so Amazon

1:06.6

recently unveiled you know another perk basically for their prime video service

1:11.6

that allows users to download, I think it was like five hours

1:16.8

of content or something on those lines, for offline viewing, which is important if you're

1:21.3

traveling or hearing somewhere where you don't have

1:23.1

Wi-Fi or data access, right?

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