About damn time. Networks can go die in a fire for all I care, I haven't had cable for years; I try to stay away from advertising as much as possible and my mind is happier for it.
Netflix Offering $100k Per Episode for Current TV
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Not quite yet but the process has already started. All creative content is moving in this direction, music, books, movies, television, video games.Jkudo said:
Look at games the last few years. All the real innovation is happening without publishers, Minecraft, World of Goo, Braid, lots of iPhone and XBLA games. Digital distribution like Steam might as well be free compared to getting retail shelf space.
A couple of hacked Kinects and you have a motion capture studio that would cost tens of thousands of dollars just a couple of years earlier.
Maybe there will be less eye candy but Minecraft sure as hell kept my attention WAY longer than Mass Effect 2. But it will take a while, middlemen will fight tooth and nail against being cut out.
This wont be that successful paying $100k per episode when in the top rated shows actors are receiving $300k-$600k per episode. The production companies still need the networks to do the promotion and the commissioning of new shows. Netfix is long way off being able to spend the kind of money that requires and if they did their cost base would shoot up to about the same as the networks. This means that you would end paying either, about the same price as cable channel or face adverts. At the moment Netfix are just poaching money based on the investments made by the networks. Its not a bad business model, you keep your costs low and let the other guy pay for product development but it doesn't mean that they are going to replace the networks any time soon.
But then you have to realise that Black Ops sold over 7 times as many copies on it's first day, as Minecraft has in its lifetime. Add on the fact that Black Ops is a hell of a lot expensive, and you see that the money is still at publishers. And money rules the market.rembrandtqeinstein said:
And Hulu still isn't available in Canada. Fuck you, network TV. I don't miss cable at all. Why in the name of high holy fuck would I pay upwards of $50 a month for shows I don't care about that I have to watch when you say I do? It's two thousand fucking ten. Get with it, or get the fuck out of my living room.
Not satisfied with knocking out rental services such as Blockbuster, Netflix now has their eyes on television networks themselves. This is going to be very interesting.
I hope they go further.
It's a little sad but already one of the only reasons I haven't dropped cable completely is because I don't want to wait a year longer to see the next season of Dexter.
I could; I have enough on my instant que.
It's a little sad but already one of the only reasons I haven't dropped cable completely is because I don't want to wait a year longer to see the next season of Dexter.
I could; I have enough on my instant que.
Still waiting on Instant Stream for HIMYM.
Come on, CAVE IN.
Anyway, I still watch cable, since that still gets first run of the episodes.
Come on, CAVE IN.
Anyway, I still watch cable, since that still gets first run of the episodes.
Except Netflix, which at that point will have a monopoly on all television. And the Internet providers, which by then will have consolidated into a single service because the government refuses to regulate this newfangled Internet thing.rembrandtqeinstein said:
It was never needed, really. I'm still scratching my head as to how people ever got sold on the idea. "Why watch TV with commercials for free when you can watch it with just many commercials for $50 a month! WHEEEEEE!"Garak73 said: