The article’s interesting but it didn’t really answer the question I wanted answered which is “who is actually making more money?”
Netflix is at the forefront of on-demand visual media and we all know how that story is going to end. I don’t know of anyone who thinks people 30 years from now are going to be catching reruns on TNT instead of requesting what show they want to watch when they want to watch it.
But to me the big question is whether it’s better for media companies to drag their feet or to be an early adopter. To use the HBO example they’re adamantly refusing to license their content for streaming while Showtime has almost all its shows available on Netflix. So from a business perspective the interesting question is whether people will turn to HBO because of its scarcity or choose Showtime shows instead.
Netflix is at the forefront of on-demand visual media and we all know how that story is going to end. I don’t know of anyone who thinks people 30 years from now are going to be catching reruns on TNT instead of requesting what show they want to watch when they want to watch it.
But to me the big question is whether it’s better for media companies to drag their feet or to be an early adopter. To use the HBO example they’re adamantly refusing to license their content for streaming while Showtime has almost all its shows available on Netflix. So from a business perspective the interesting question is whether people will turn to HBO because of its scarcity or choose Showtime shows instead.