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I don't think it is fair to make the comparison between TV and music industries. While they are both being slow and TV is getting outmoded by the internet liste

by lbotos 15y ago

I don't think it is fair to make the comparison between TV and music industries. While they are both being slow and TV is getting outmoded by the internet listening to music is not dying. They are both media industries and we are just seeing the shift from monolithic distribution channels to a more federated internet distribution model. The audience is still there, they just aren't facing the TV set anymore. Their eyes are glued to a monitor instead. :)

PaulHoule 15y ago
It's not fair to compare TV 2012 or Movies 2012 with Music 2012, but a comparison with Music 1983 might be fair... And of course, the future trajectory may be quite different. The movie industry, for one thing, is intelligent about pricing. In particular, if you want to see a movie you've got a choices that range between a 3D theatre ticket, $40 collectors editions, usually several Blu-Ray and DVD editions with different features, $5 bargain disks as well as movie channels, Vudu, Netflix, Redbox and other things. Now, in the long term it's an interesting question if "TV" is the same medium if you watch it going by on a set or if you watch it prerecorded on your own schedule. There are certainly forms of "TV" like cable news and the weather channel that will dry up and blow away in the digital transition.