vinnyt
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Post by vinnyt on Mar 16, 2017 1:57:18 GMT
With this rise in Netflix/Amazon streaming projects, I'm wondering just how long before the only reason theaters exist is for the next Disney owned franchise.
It could just be a trend, but a new platform like this letting smaller films get seen easier could get huge.
Maybe by 2030 at the latest.
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Post by cornnetto on Mar 16, 2017 2:16:25 GMT
With this rise in Netflix/Amazon streaming projects, I'm wondering just how long before the only reason theaters exist is for the next Disney owned franchise. It could just be a trend, but a new platform like this letting smaller films get seen easier could get huge. Maybe by 2030 at the latest. Netflix/Amazon should be much smaller than the transition from no TV to TV (people went rapidly for going to theater once+ a week to rarely when Television arrived I would guess many predicted it would be a death medium by the 70s and maybe it would have been true without Lucas/Spielberg), the impact of Urban sprawl ing is not negligible either. If Netflix and the like become the way to go, price for it will probably go up significantly. Looking at the number of screens in the United state, we have yet to see any significant decline Number of screens: 1987: 22,679 1990: 23,814 1995: 27,843 2000: 36,379 2005: 37,688 2010: 39,520 2016: 40,174 www.natoonline.org/data/us-movie-screens/Once you consider the recent world market expansion, world box office growth, how much digital distribution lowered the potential cost of a theater release, I would not predict theater being gone in less than 15 year's. As for the second question, how long before the only reason theaters exist is for the next Disney owned franchise, that I'm less sure.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Mar 16, 2017 3:27:18 GMT
We're a long way away from theaters being obsolete. Just the social factor alone will keep it relevant long after tech surpasses it.
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Post by countjohn on Mar 16, 2017 5:39:18 GMT
It looks like television is the thing that had the greatest effect. VHS didn't put much of a dent in it at all. It's hard to believe more people went to the movies in 1929 than at just about any time since. I knew way more people went in the 30's/40's than today but I didn't know movies were so big when sound was brand new.
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