What is the future of television? Will today’s golden age continue? We discuss the current television model and why TV hasn’t been disrupted to the degree film and other media have, the real scarcity and artificial limits that are keeping it there, and make a prediction about the next ten years of television content. We also discuss charging viewers on a cliffhanger, superstar effects after unbundling, and bifurcation of budgets. Will serial video lose its flow as it moves online? Or might a combination of recommendation algorithms and massive online film libraries create a deadly-compelling flow similar to “The Entertainment” from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest?
Relevant Links
- Please, Keep Paying $80 a Month for Cable So I Can Enjoy Cheap TV by Wade Roush
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Breaking Bad series finale had 10m viewers
- Super Bowl had 110m viewers