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This has always seemed inevitable to me. TV studios are producing content at massive expense, and they’re only doing so because they expect massive profits. $10

This has always seemed inevitable to me. TV studios are producing content at massive expense, and they’re only doing so because they expect massive profits. $100/mo cable bills do the trick, but there isn’t enough massive profit it everyone “just” having a Netflix subscription. The market is going to test ways to continue to charge $100/mo or more (total household expense), and will only keep producing this “golden age of TV” if they find they can keep raking in big bucks for it. If we did end up stabilizing on “most people just buy Netflix,” over the long haul, I would expect to see studios quit producing blockbuster TV, and for content quality to look more like it did in the 80s/90s.

dragonwriter 7y ago
> If we did end up stabilizing on “most people just buy Netflix,” over the long haul, I would expect to see studios quit producing blockbuster TV, and for content quality to look more like it did in the 80s/90s. You mean the period just before the drive to replace most scripted TV content with “reality” content as a cost cutting measure? That period is probably the peak of non-premium TV content quality. Netflix is basically, a single premium channels with a slightly bigger catalog of third-party older content, and priced as such. If everyone subscribed just to one such service and not a huge package of non-premium channels, I'd expect quantity of (non-premium) content to drop, but peak quality of (premium) content to stay the same and average quality of all content to go up.