Which is a good thing. As we will only pay for the content we use and not have drivel shoved down our throats because the advertisers are supporting it.
I happily pay Netflix $9.99 a month to stream their content and I'm sure they are keeping track of what I (and other paying customers) are choosing to watch. As Netflix continues to develop their original programming or license other programming, guess what? They will deliver the programming that their viewers want to see. And it likely won't be the kind of nonsense we see on the 100+ channels we are getting presently.
I'm thinking that the MSNBC and PBS types won't fare very well in this new environment.
Netflix’s $9.99 a month rate isn’t enough to develop new content for. Their main product line is from movie and TV shows developed by legacy media. Once that is gone, they will either have to radically increase their subscription rates, which they can’t, or start putting a more and more ads.
The other course is for more and more free media like Youtube, but the owners are desperate to turn that into a revenue stream some how.
Netflix had a new series about 8 people all around the world telepathically connected. I thought it would be a good concept. The first episode featured a steamy sex scene between two transgender individuals who are pivotal characters in the series. Males to females in Jenner fashion. Call me a homophobe, but I stopped right there. I don’t care how people have their sex, as long as children and animals are not involved. Just don’t try to make me watch.