by lhb412 » Fri Oct 26, 2018 9:38 pm
^ It's weird, because I actually don't buy as much physical media as I used to. I feel like I have that obsessive gene where I want to get the complete set of things and it just ended with piles of things I never watched or read. Ironically, this has just given me renewed vigor for collecting: more deliberately self curating. I have to really love what I'm buying! I don't make impulse buys like I used to.
I don't pretend to know what's going to happen with physical media, cable, and all of these streaming sites but I just think we're reaching that Tipping Point, you know? Netflix is going to be pretty much all direct to Netflix material, Disney will have their own streaming service, Warner Brothers will have their own streaming service (will DC remain seperate?), and then you have Hulu and CBS and HBO and whatever the heck ever they're going to turn out. Amazon Prime is probably my favorite of the streaming services just because so much weird stuff pops up on there (and often vanishes just as quickly). Amazon Prime reminds me of the early days of cable, where they were just trying to throw as much stuff together as they could to fill up air time. In Amazon Prime's case, the stuff in question is usually Italian horror films and kung fu movies!
I don't think this growth will continue. I think there has to be a contraction.