The future of Netflix is to become just another TV channel
Sep 16, 2017
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Other content producers can easily create their own internet streaming service (many have) as costs of that go down and internent viewing demand goes up.
The result is all producers' original content is available on demand and viewers watch the same stuff they used to watch. The TV industry ends up about the same as it was 15 years ago, with Netflix being basically another HBO.
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CLARIFICATION: a streaming company that mainly provides their own original content is my definition of a TV channel. This is the future i see for Netflix, which would put it in the same category as HBO (HBO Go) and CBS (CBS All Access)
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It takes a lot of money to get a service off ground. And you can't get a service off ground if the catalog is not great. And all great content available for licensing are gone long time ago. Even Disney has to wait another 2 years to start their own service, success is far from guaranteed.
If Google and Disney have trouble doing it, good luck with anybody else.
Content provides feel threatened because they know Netflix don't need any license content in a few years and increasingly will negotiate with better terms only.