Do you remember where you were 15 years ago?
I do and it certainlly was not that long ago.
Netflix Streamining (watch movies like youtube) for $8 a month is crushing everyone.
Ditto Amazon's prime account with the streaming.
That’s all that is in my home is netflix. Gave up on cable years back and satellite about three years or so ago. Too damn expensive and even with DVR’s the content just wasn’t there. I am certain ala cart will come along, then I will consider re-joining. For the time being, I am not going to pay to subsidize crappy channels I never wanted in the first place that are niche at best. No thanks.
Cable and satellite will be dead.
Broadcast channels are already dead to me. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, etc satisfies my entertain needs.
I did some Nielsen rating stuff a couple/few years ago, and hardly filled it out because we only do streaming. I quit doing Nielsen because it was a pain to fill out the little book. If they did an automatic box that caught what we watched I would have done it. Only Netflix tv and Pandora music here. We opted out of cable after the 2000 election.
Yeah, sure. In 1985 a co-worker declared to me that in 5 years the mainframe computer and the COBOL programming language would be dead and gone. In 1994 when I sat down to begin my first civilian job after military retirement, I began working on a 3270 monitor/IBM 360 mainframe and began to work in COBOL and mainframe assembly language. The PC was also supposed to be gone by now and recently laptops were pronounced as well. Just like the environmental twits who predicted dire breakdown of civilization in the 60s, 70s and 80s, they are rarely correct or close.
True, but studios and production facilities are not obligated to continue with Netflix. They may create their own “apps”, pay tv manufacturers to insert them into new sets, and stream their own content.
Or, networks may pay the production facilities for that privilege.
Paid for “broadcast” TV may be on the way out. You can now get many dozens of stations just with your antenna which is more than used to be available on cable. Multiple 24 hour movie channels, 24 hour weather, classic TV stations, etc. Plus, many just supplement the antenna with the app boxes like apple TV, roku or equivalent.
There will people that will not want to pay fees for TV entertainment, so unless they do it by ads then Netflix and others will lose sales long term.
I like Netflix streaming, but I doubt that it represents 10% of what I watch. I think a lot of it has to do with the cable guide vs. the clumsy Netflix search.
Preprogrammed TV could never match on-demand for selection, for people who want to pay for it.
When TV first arrived, everyone said that was the end of the movie and exhibitor (theater) business.
They could not have been more wrong.
And everyone who says broadcast TV is going away is wrong.
Broadcast TV’s ace in the hole is that they pay us, the American people, the owners of the band, exactly nothing for the airwaves. Contrast that with what Verizon and AT&T have to pay to United States taxpayers for scarce wave space.
In exchange for selling ad time, their broadcast must remain free to anyone with an antenna. And they can’t say “we’re not going to broadcast at all — we’re just going to stream Big Bang Theory to paying customers.” If they try that, they lose their place on the bandwidth. The FCC will auction it off to the highest bidder. For billions of dollars. The networks’ most valuable irreplaceable asset is the band they sit on. There isn’t any more available.
Nope, the nets have a sweet deal — free rent on the American-owned band, and they keep all the ad revenue. They will never give it up. Even if their audience has been cut in half in the last ten years, so what? CBS has never been more profitable.
Broadcast TV is here to stay.
Netflix dropped 24. Deal breaker. No other reason to watch the boob tube.
BTW, where does Net Neutrality fit into this picture?
It’s been at least a dozen years since I had cable. Broadband and radio rule.