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I had two thoughts. 1) That the golden age for DVDs only lasted about 10 years. I think the golden age of cinema lasted from late 1920 to early 1960's. Acceler
by iamwil 13y ago
I had two thoughts.
1) That the golden age for DVDs only lasted about 10 years. I think the golden age of cinema lasted from late 1920 to early 1960's. Acceleration in technology results in accelerated culture change and accelerated market changes. We're use to it in tech, but I didn't think much of other industries.
2) Along those lines, I was surprised this was such as revelation to the author. As soon as I saw Netflix go streaming, I knew this was the way I wanted my movies delivered. And the attitude in the OP seemed to be, "Hey, we can't make great movies and take risks on movies because you guys aren't buying DVDs." Innovative films never seemed to be big-budget anyway. And for an industry that's not use to change like technology is, they seem to fail to see that with new technology comes new business models, and new opportunities. I wonder how tech can educate hollywood on this.
- VLM 13y ago"Innovative films never seemed to be big-budget anyway." One interesting hidden assumption deeply embedded in the biz is that big budgets are only for special effects and certain stars, and sometimes costume/makeup/sets although thats all getting adsorbed into "special effects". Obviously big budget never means the writers or any part of the creative team that doesn't involve makeup or blood spatters. Unfortunately that shows pretty strongly. I would wager this budgeting anomaly is, in the long run, going to be a bigger disruptor to the biz than tech.
- maxerickson 13y agoI think the difference between good and great writers and directors (and such) is pretty big, but I doubt the difference within the great is all that large, and I bet there are plenty enough to keep the studio dollars busy.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoDirectors, and even writers, on big budget films are paid very well. Even certain key behind-the-scenes people can easily make a million+ on a big film.
- Tloewald 13y agoTech isn't much better at this than Hollywood, which has gone through the VCR age, censorship, and the end of the studio system, as well as the DVD age. Microsoft and Sony fought a format war over the successor to DVDs that hurt both of them (recall that Sony "won"). 20/20 hindsight is awesome. I will claim to have pointed out that DVD was the last format five years ago: http://loewald.com/blog/?p=464 http://loewald.com/blog/?p=464 And, by the way, the point is that innovative indie movies don't make their money at the box office. They play in small numbers of art house cinemas, and then they used to sell DVDs. A lot of cancelled TV shows became phenomena on DVD. You can become a cult show on streaming and not make much money.
- ams6110 13y agoI wonder how much profit Blu-Ray has actually made in aggregate, given the initial format war and the quickly-following demise of the DVD itself with the advent of streaming/on-demand viewing. Given the debacle that was my experience with DVDs, I vowed I would never buy a Blu-Ray disk and I never have.
- nsns 13y agothe golden age for DVDs only lasted about 10 years Or better still: the golden age for mechanical reproduction only lasted about a 100 years.