A new report says that Hollywood holds its better web content
” The answer, apparently, is that big media can stop long enough to figure out how to get paid- That’s what analysts at Bernstein Research said in a nicer language, of course – within the 80-page transcript out today from the conclave on Monday called “Web Video … friend or foe and to whom? Technophiles who think the Internet will bring down the Hollywood studios, television networks and cable companies have their heads up their asses.
VOD cable pay more studies. It will also protect the network business premium, because “getting a check every month from HBO or Showtime, Starz and is a good way to adjust the risk in every film,” Programming Bernstein analyst Michael Nathanson says. “Consumers would lose the economic incentive to undermine the old models, cable and telecommunications Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett saysFor example, Hollywood will not give its best stuff on the web video on demand services such as Apple or Amazon. Cable operators will reduce the migration to web video by ditching the flat monthly fee for Internet and charge people for the amount they use.
We should not make those same mistakes.”A year and a half ago, everyone was talking about, what we learned from the music? At this time, the average American family spends about 35 cents per hour to watch TV. Meanwhile, the media career of putting everything on the Web is subsiding. That would amount to “hundreds of dollars a month,” says Moffett, if families have to pay iTunes prices charged for each show. And the lesson seems to be that we have to leave quickly,” says Moffett. “Suddenly, in the last six months, debate and conversation has been moved to: What we learned from the newspapers? – And God help us if we go down that same path.