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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Maybe by the time that machine needs upgrading, the rights problem for films and series world wide has been solved (yeah, right...  ) |
Don't know how tech/business savvy your local media companies are but on this side of the pond the "big boys" have apparently come to the (proper) conclusion that their dependence on cable is costing them money and that they need to put some distance between them and the wiring guys.
- ABC and CBS moving to stream their broadcast content online
- TimeWarner getting out of the cable business.
- HBO NOW: last year at this time, HBO publicly stated they weren't concerned about video piracy of GAME OF THRONES. At that exact time, they were already developing HBO NOW. Showtime is right behind them.
- Dish's SLING TV, Sony's PlayStation network, Apple's rumored TV service, Microsoft's rumored XBL Diamond, and eventually Google's inevitable entry...
- Crunchyroll
I haven't been paying too much attention to Digital media this decade but I've recently been getting back into it and what I'm finding *should* have the mass media companies scrambling. Video piracy hasn't reached the mainstream, like Napster did, but it is getting very close...
Popcorn hour has gotten some tech media attention but there are dozens of far worse systems emerging. If the networks don't start offering convenient legal access to their content, and soon, they'll soon end up competing against free "rebroadcasters".
The Japanese anime producers are probably the leaders here, with their partnership with Crunchyroll. They realized there was money to be made worldwide at minimal cost to them.
Cable is, like pbooks, a business model just begging to be disrupted.