I have a great citation form MacWorld.com which showcases how short term thinking will ultimately kill TC and Movies as we know it…far before these long standing cultural mainstays have been supplanted by newer technology.
About the only thing I can see about this metaphor (i.e. the TV/Motion Picture Industry as Dinosaurs) which might not fit is the sense that there will likely be no real mass extinction for TV and Movies… There may be some survivors, but most of the industry will have a hard time trying to recapture even a small part of the power they once had…
TV, movie industries futilely fighting future
http://www.macworld.com/article/157817/2011/06/tv_movie_future.html
Some people like to have a drink at the end of a long day—or, if you’re Don Draper, in the middle of a long day—but me, I like to collapse on the couch with dinner and an episode of one of the way-too-many TV shows I follow.
This should not be hard.
But a few months back, when I fired up Hulu to catch up on USA’s White Collar, I noticed with surprise that there were far fewer episodes available for streaming than had aired on TV. What gives?
Licensing is what gives. On further inspection, I discovered a note on the show’s Hulu page:
The first two episodes of the current season will be available the day after air. Subsequent episodes will be available 30 days after their original airdates.
30 days? Who the heck is going to wait 30 days to watch a 40-minute television episode? Not me, that’s for sure.
To be fair, if I had a DVR, I could simply have recorded the show. But I don’t have a DVR. In fact, I don’t even have a cable or satellite TV subscription.
And that gets to the root of the problem. To put it bluntly, I’m the person the content providers and distributors fear: the man who wants to watch all his TV shows wherever and whenever he wants, without paying an arm and a leg for all those channels and shows that he doesn’t watch.
