I work in TV production and the pandemic caused a massive uptick in rehashing old shows to license out. We've spent a lot of time using the likes of Topaz to upres old SD content to HD to sell to...
I work in TV production and the pandemic caused a massive uptick in rehashing old shows to license out. We've spent a lot of time using the likes of Topaz to upres old SD content to HD to sell to networks and channels in desperate need of content.
We saw this coming. Everyone span up a content platform. Everyone started putting just their own content on then realised they didn't have enough content to keep interest. Now we've hit the magical plateau of "we have run out of content and we cannot make it fast enough to keep viewers! What do we do?!" The answer is buy a license to show someone else's.
Having just Netflix and then all companies use it would probably have worked out more profitable for the businesses that invested in their own platforms. Deals could have been made but they all saw a working model and thought it was easy to achieve. It's not.
It seems like a collaboration between the major studios would have been a better competitor? Rather than a dozen indifferent offerings, there would have been a single competitor to Netflix with a...
It seems like a collaboration between the major studios would have been a better competitor? Rather than a dozen indifferent offerings, there would have been a single competitor to Netflix with a deeper catalog.
This goes back to that one comment from whoever it was in some article (great sourcing, right?!) that it will eventually be Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and probably one other.
This goes back to that one comment from whoever it was in some article (great sourcing, right?!) that it will eventually be Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and probably one other.
I work in TV production and the pandemic caused a massive uptick in rehashing old shows to license out. We've spent a lot of time using the likes of Topaz to upres old SD content to HD to sell to networks and channels in desperate need of content.
We saw this coming. Everyone span up a content platform. Everyone started putting just their own content on then realised they didn't have enough content to keep interest. Now we've hit the magical plateau of "we have run out of content and we cannot make it fast enough to keep viewers! What do we do?!" The answer is buy a license to show someone else's.
Having just Netflix and then all companies use it would probably have worked out more profitable for the businesses that invested in their own platforms. Deals could have been made but they all saw a working model and thought it was easy to achieve. It's not.
It seems like a collaboration between the major studios would have been a better competitor? Rather than a dozen indifferent offerings, there would have been a single competitor to Netflix with a deeper catalog.
I think that is what Hulu started out as, but now it is owned by ABC/Disney/Time Warner/Taco Bell.
Unpaywalled.
This goes back to that one comment from whoever it was in some article (great sourcing, right?!) that it will eventually be Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and probably one other.