I think that network TV is going to either have to reinvent itself or it’s going to have to be more competitive – there are just so many options now with streaming and everything.
Even in the off season, people are streaming the show or buying the DVD sets, and new audience comes to ‘Leverage’ every year we’ve been doing it.
I think streaming technology is definitely coming, and it’s gonna make people’s access to games infinitely easier. You’ve seen it happen to music and movies, and I think it’s a great thing.
With YouTube streaming and Twitch and all that, you can just hop on on any given night and play videogames and have people come watch you. And even if you’ve only got 400 people watching your stream, that’s more people than would see my comedy if I went to UCB.
My bigger game plan was always to be the top artist in the heart of people and that probably made me artist of the year on multiple music streaming platforms.
I’m not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming – I’ve always been a man of the theaters.
The first step in mobility was about letting people speak to each other; then, through 3G and 4G, we saw real connectivity – which works but isn’t really designed for quality streaming. With 5G, we won’t just be able to communicate better: it will democratise machines.
I founded Netflix. I’ve built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.
With Spotify and all those streaming services, you don’t get paid anything. You have to be, like, Madonna or something to actually make a real royalty from that.
To me, the machinima artform has essentially evolved now into the Let’s Play streaming world. That’s what it is: it’s people performing and creating art using video games. It’s just more personality-driven rather than story-driven these days.
Generally speaking, the business of music streaming is treacherous at best: Consumers don’t seem to want to pay big money for access to digital music services, so companies must keep the fees low.
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers – the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue – bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
I mean even I don’t know how to buy music online. I go on a music- streaming site or an online music store, there are so many steps you have to go through, before you get to download the song. Then, if I have made my account, then I forget my password daily.
Broadband connections allow us to access more robust types of content, services, and applications – video chat versus email, or live streaming versus chat, for example. Yet if we look beyond our own personal use, we can see that broadband Internet access is not merely a convenience: it is a powerful force for social change.
The fact is that ‘free’ in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it’s stunting the growth of paid streaming.
Most companies that are great at something – like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores – do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.
When I’m not streaming, I have time to reflect on all the growth, and I don’t like that. I’d rather just be home playing. I’m like, ‘I haven’t played a celebrity in a while. I haven’t done something big in a while. Is it because I’m slowing down?’
Businesses which were slow to recognize the power of the Internet in the mid ’90s were quickly left behind. For example, Blockbuster failed to innovate with streaming technology and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010.
How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.
Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you’re pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who’s always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.
I really like streaming services. It’s a great way for people to find your music.
‘The One I Love’ came out in theaters for the enthusiasts and did a chunk of business on VOD. But when it started streaming on Netflix, it exploded. Same thing with ‘Safety Not Guaranteed.’
The royalties from downloading are bad enough but the royalties from streaming are non-existent.
The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.
A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.
My main concern about coming back is being able to financially support it on my own. I don’t want to depend on any record company to do it for me. But I have a fan base, people still streaming my music.
Streaming is something that’s going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G and everything else.
When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I’d put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on screen to a mass audience.
My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.
Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it’s destroyed music. It’s destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It’s a shame.
I think streaming, in general, is democratising music in general.
Views are overrated; it’s light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami’s South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room – it never gets old.
There’s a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming.
‘Frontline’ started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
From the artist’s standpoint, are you getting more from streaming than you used to, prior to the days of the Internet? No – and I don’t know if those days are ever going to come back – but at least, technically speaking, it’s the legal way to do it.
Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.
There’s a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what’s happening on streaming services.
If you crave further confirmation that Silicon Valley is a magical place where magical thinking reigns, consider the tale of Roku, the video streaming company that filed to go public Friday, when alert people everywhere were headed out for a long weekend.
The management teams in these royalty and streaming companies have the highest-quality research and the most visibility into all of the producers. So if you really want to know what’s going on in the resource space, you should talk to the management team of a royalty company.
I think the cool thing about being alive in 2017 is that you can literally put out music as soon and as frequently as you want to because of streaming services.
I like streaming music. I’ll be in the car going, ‘I want to hear Scotty Anderson.’ He’s a great guitar player not many people know about – maybe me and two other dudes know him. But I love him, and I can pull him up on Apple Music, and there it is, right there in my car.
Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.
DivX Plus Streaming is adaptive bit rate streaming solutions, which means it works by detecting a user bandwidth and CPU capacity in real time and adjusting the quality of the video stream accordingly.
Competing and streaming ‘Fortnite’ all night at the most iconic building in Chicago, a city close to my heart, is a dream come true.
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