Netflix Offering $100k Per Episode for Current TV

[Stoic raptor]

- No friggin' ads.

I doubt it. Right now there is no ads. But if they do get current episodes, then I guess ads would get on netflix. Either way, netflix will get ads soon if it keeps growing.
It is kind of inevitable.

Is this just a guess?

It is, but I cannot see it happening any other way

- No friggin' ads.

I doubt it. Right now there is no ads. But if they do get current episodes, then I guess ads would get on netflix. Either way, netflix will get ads soon if it keeps growing.
It is kind of inevitable.

A bit hard to swallow the 'inevitable' part because you PAY for the subscription to Netflix. Paying for a service usually means no ads. So here is hoping they don't implent it.

Wait...doesn't cable TV have ads? Don't you pay for that?

Exactly.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Still waiting on Instant Stream for HIMYM.

Come on, CAVE IN.

Anyway, I still watch cable, since that still gets first run of the episodes.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

My children will never experience a world where some program director controlled your schedule. There is will be no "prime time" anymore and this is a wonderful thing.

The whole entire network system is slowly but inevitably crumbling. Eventually there will be no middlemen between consumers and producers.

Except Netflix, which at that point will have a monopoly on all television. And the Internet providers, which by then will have consolidated into a single service because the government refuses to regulate this newfangled Internet thing.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Cable TV may go away but that's because that model is obsolete. Paying a subscription while having to sit through as many commercials as you do on network (free) tv while still being a slave to schedules is no longer needed.

It was never needed, really. I'm still scratching my head as to how people ever got sold on the idea. "Why watch TV with commercials for free when you can watch it with just many commercials for $50 a month! WHEEEEEE!"