How will people watch TV or movies in ten years? It's a question that can be played off or massively inflated, as people forecast a long life for cable and theaters or a complete shift to Netflix and YouTube. At a Tribeca Film Festival panel with our own Josh Topolsky, telecom executives met with entrepreneurs who have successfully made the jump to web, plotting the future of television in a wide-ranging discussion about Aereo, streaming, and the death of DVDs.
The panelists acknowledged that there's a gap between what viewers want and what's likely to happen. You're probably never, for example, going to be able to regularly buy films online at the same time they launch in theaters, said Richard Wellerstein, an executive with AT&T's...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/25/4264746/future-of-film-distribution-and-television-at-tribeca-film-festival
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