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Streaming wars set to intensify with JioHotStar debut
Financial Express Chandigarh
|February 15, 2025
IT'S SHOWTIME
THE RELIANCE-DISNEY joint venture on Friday merged its two streaming platforms Disney+ Hotstar and JioCinema into one. This comes within three months of the JV (called JioStar) coming into existence.
The speed of the action, said experts, points to the rapid consolidation of the domestic media market and will see the combined service (called JioHotstar) taking on OTT majors Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, among others.
It will offer both sports and entertainment content at an "affordable price".
Premium content will include films, TV shows and animation from the Disney stable, NBCUniversal Peacock, Warner Bros Discovery HBO, and Paramount on the merged platform.
This story is from the February 15, 2025 edition of Financial Express Chandigarh.
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