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In my mind, there are two ways to "kill" the movie and TV industries: 1) Replacement of the medium--have movies and TV go the way of Vaudeville through a more
by spinfrontier 15y ago
In my mind, there are two ways to "kill" the movie and TV industries:
1) Replacement of the medium--have movies and TV go the way of Vaudeville through a more popular form of entertainment. Comcast makes upwards of $150/month per customer (2010 data), so there's money waiting to be made, and
2) Competition in the medium--low the barriers to entry for movie and TV production to displace today's power centers. Data from GE shows consumers are willing to spend $15-16/month for VOD-like services, so there's a market to foster alternative content in the medium.
That said, it's a difficult market. People's habits don't change easily. I worked for a Sequoia-funded streaming movie startup that just went out of business.