SvennoJ said:
Machiavellian said:
How so is the delivery fragmented that it would result in low quality of a show. I just do not get your point. If you say that the budgets are lower or people that write the show is getting paid less or that the actors are getting less money or something that actually would effect something like a TV show instead of how its consumed I can see where you are coming from. You are basing everything on the delivery of how people consume a particular media on how they get it and coming to a conclusion. I am not sure if any of that really means anything. I grew up when TV were in black and white and you had 4 channels. I have seen TV shows quality go up and down for decades and it definitely did not have anything to do with digital delivery. Just like any creative media, it depends on the people making it more than anything else. |
I'm thinking the budgets are lower while the target audience (world wide streaming) is bigger or more diverse. So shows can't focus on local issues since they have to pander to a world wide audience, while still having that smaller budget of a smaller audience. I don't see streaming producing Fawlty towers kind of stuff.
Creative media very much depends on the target audience. It's the same with games. The wider the target audience the more generic the games get. TV has always used local issues for content. I wonder if the original star trek can still be made in today's environment.
Streaming targets more of a global audience, while at the same time fragmenting the target audience by locking stuff to different streaming services. Anyway that's my theory why TV is starting to feel so generic nowadays. Watching foreign channels in the old days was like getting an insight in a different culture. Nowadays watching foreign content on Netflix it's the same content with a different skin. |
So you are saying because the audience is bigger, you cannot find the particular shows that pleases you. I would not call that a quality issue but a personal preference. I have heard this same sentiment when people talk about games. I do not have this mindset because I do not consume either at a large volume so I am not fatigued by games, movies or music. I neither have this viewpoint nor do I have a hard time finding anything I want to view or watch. Then again, I have not watched standard TV for a decade. From my viewpoint, I have not seen any decrease in budgets or the quality of the writing. There is so much media out there that I have no problems finding the stuff I like and want to watch so I am just not in the same place as you are. Usually by the time I take interest in anything that is shone on standard network TV, it has been years since the first episode.
