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Your comment about television isn't in the same category; tv and Netflix et al are content delivery mechanisms whereas this article is talking about the content

• ghaff 7y ago
  Netflix (and Amazon, Hulu, HBO, etc.) are both content delivery and studios. The two functions don't need to overlap but it appears as if that's what's needed for differentiation and stickiness.
• kibwen 7y ago
  Television is host to a few different categories of media that should be considered separately. Miniserieses, episodic character shows, serial stories, and sports will continue to find audiences no matter the platform, because the experiences aren't necessarily fungible (though at the limit that platform could be "piracy"). Fungible experiences like TV news networks and one-step-above-white-noise daytime television are dead on their feet, long since replaced among younger demographics by free content on the internet. The future of TV is going to be difficult-to-replace high-effort content like HBO, whereas channels stuffed with low-effort content are going to be crushed under heel by the convenience and momentum of YouTube. The makeup of cable packages is going to have to radically shift to account for the fact that the already-subsidized long-tail channels are going to continue to lose their audience, likely moving cable towards a more a la cart model that will be increasingly hard to convincingly differentiate from services like Hulu or Netflix, and will (one hopes) eventually transition to no longer demanding a distinct cable or satellite connection due to lack of justification (though of course plenty of people already get their internet over cable infrastructure, and that won't change).
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