Netflix Offering $100k Per Episode for Current TV

[DirgeNovak]

I hope they can do it, if only to beef up their library. The Canadian Netflix mostly sucks.

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.

I don't think (hope?) so. With Netflix, you pay directly for the service, so there is no justification for advertisement. It's different for TV, since you don't pay the stations directly, so they get their money from advertisers.

 

[Pinstar]

Streaming from netflix cuts out the middle man, and there for ads are not needed to support the model.

In essence you are getting TV for a small increase in cost, with your internet connection (which you have and pay for already) carrying a bulk of the weight.

The only fear I have is that I see the networks try to salvage their business with the Hulu model and make their shows exclusive to Hulu to make it compete with Netflix...

3rd party studios will benefit because they'll have two services buying their shows (potentially).

The only real dark path this could lead is the networks buddying up with the ISPs to throttle streaming traffic in the event that the courts don't back net neutrality.

With any luck, this will pan out the same way that traditional phone service will: Pipe it through your internet for a 10th of the cost to the consumer.

 

[DustyDrB]

Netflix is becoming an entertainment superpower and somehow it seems to be good for the consumer. I want more than the first two seasons of Dexter on there!

 

[BlindMessiah94]

About damn time. Networks can go die in a fire for all I care, I haven't had cable for years; I try to stay away from advertising as much as possible and my mind is happier for it.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

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.

When can we get rid of publishers?

Not quite yet but the process has already started. All creative content is moving in this direction, music, books, movies, television, video games.

Look at games the last few years. All the real innovation is happening without publishers, Minecraft, World of Goo, Braid, lots of iPhone and XBLA games. Digital distribution like Steam might as well be free compared to getting retail shelf space.

A couple of hacked Kinects and you have a motion capture studio that would cost tens of thousands of dollars just a couple of years earlier.

Maybe there will be less eye candy but Minecraft sure as hell kept my attention WAY longer than Mass Effect 2. But it will take a while, middlemen will fight tooth and nail against being cut out.

 

[Nimzar]

If this means that shows like Firefly can succeed without network meddling then GOGOGO netflix.

 

[Thwarted]

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.

I think netflix counts as a middleman.

 

[Albino Boo]

This wont be that successful paying $100k per episode when in the top rated shows actors are receiving $300k-$600k per episode. The production companies still need the networks to do the promotion and the commissioning of new shows. Netfix is long way off being able to spend the kind of money that requires and if they did their cost base would shoot up to about the same as the networks. This means that you would end paying either, about the same price as cable channel or face adverts. At the moment Netfix are just poaching money based on the investments made by the networks. Its not a bad business model, you keep your costs low and let the other guy pay for product development but it doesn't mean that they are going to replace the networks any time soon.

 

[WrongSprite]

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.

When can we get rid of publishers?

Not quite yet but the process has already started. All creative content is moving in this direction, music, books, movies, television, video games.

Look at games the last few years. All the real innovation is happening without publishers, Minecraft, World of Goo, Braid, lots of iPhone and XBLA games. Digital distribution like Steam might as well be free compared to getting retail shelf space.

A couple of hacked Kinects and you have a motion capture studio that would cost tens of thousands of dollars just a couple of years earlier.

Maybe there will be less eye candy but Minecraft sure as hell kept my attention WAY longer than Mass Effect 2. But it will take a while, middlemen will fight tooth and nail against being cut out.

But then you have to realise that Black Ops sold over 7 times as many copies on it's first day, as Minecraft has in its lifetime. Add on the fact that Black Ops is a hell of a lot expensive, and you see that the money is still at publishers. And money rules the market.

 

[Dorkmaster Flek]

And Hulu still isn't available in Canada. Fuck you, network TV. I don't miss cable at all. Why in the name of high holy fuck would I pay upwards of $50 a month for shows I don't care about that I have to watch when you say I do? It's two thousand fucking ten. Get with it, or get the fuck out of my living room.

 

[Delusibeta]

Not satisfied with knocking out rental services such as Blockbuster, Netflix now has their eyes on television networks themselves. This is going to be very interesting.

 

[Gamegodtre]

Every since I first found out (decades ago) that networks are in the business of selling ad space, not tv shows I have had a bitter taste for tv.

doesnt that ad space pay for the show... i think

 

[Nightfalke]

- 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?

 

[GonzoGamer]

I hope they go further.
It's a little sad but already one of the only reasons I haven't dropped cable completely is because I don't want to wait a year longer to see the next season of Dexter.
I could; I have enough on my instant que.

 

[tk1989]

man, i wish they had netflix over in the uk. The Lovefilm service i have on my PS3 sux