What I want to see is a system where you buy a box that you place under your TV, and hook it up to your internet line. In this box you can subscribe to movies, TV series and other tv related entertainment. The movies gotta be put on this system the moment they come out on DVD for a price people accept, in atleast 720p quality.

TV-series gotta be put into the system at latest the day after they air in their respective countries, and there can nor be any sort of limitations when it comes to country borders. Also in atleast 720p. They can implement torrent technology into this box to offload the bandwidth requirement for the companies who release the series. These days companies like HBO produce a series, then sell it to local channels across the world after a little bit of time has passed. Pricing on this is based on how old the series is. With this box available, the value of their series when it comes to selling it would decrease but they would still got them sold if its quality TV.. since there is always someone interested in the old way to watch TV with a schedule etc. To make up the difference in income from other tv channels, they will have the income from people who pay either per episode or per season for a tv series. Lets take a series like True Blood, lets say across the world there is 100 million people who own the box. Lets say that 10 million is interested in following true blood and each pay 20-30 dollars for a season. Thats 200-300 million dollars + what they earn from various tv-channels. A channel could also choose if they want to let viewers chose if they want to pay and get it without advertisement, or watch for free with advertisement. This is just example numbers, but it is a business model that can and should work. What is important though, is that all channels go together and produce a system that all embrace. You cant have one system for each channel, then it wont work. If you subscribe to a series, then it automatically start downloading into the box the moment the episode is released into the system.

You must also be able to access your account and watch from your computer. This is important.

This would fix the requirement of todays young that they want it delivered on their door, watch it when they want to and not when the channels want you to and the pricing would be alright for most people. I guess you could compare it to how Steam work today for games.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/31/2010 01:04PM by Cerunnir.