More disruption for the TV industry.
The apocalypse, a behind-the-curtains look at classical music, a no-nonsense Los Angeles police detective standing trial, a family full of secrets, a girl with magic wishes and a boy named Gortimer—these are the intriguing plotlines of the six brand-new original series coming exclusively to Prime Instant Video. Amazon Studios today announced that The After, Bosch, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, Mozart in the Jungle, Transparent and Wishenpoof! will become the next Amazon Original Series following rave customer reviews of the pilot episodes.
There’s a lot of good (potentially) stuff here. Wish I had the time to actually watch all this stuff. Sadly, I still haven’t even dug into season 2 of House of Cards.
On the one hand it’s great that online streaming content is really pushing forward. But the same problem that most people have had with cable TV is still the same problem because cable TV is usually the ISP. Until we have real choices for high speed internet cable companies will always ultimately be in control.
Unlike Netflix, Amazon is only offering their Prime video service in the US, UK and Germany, so that reduces the effect of Amazon’s play here. It will be interesting to see if they sell their product to cable channels in markets that they do not reach, as some other American producers have done. The next most likely market for Prime Video to enter would be Canada, but Amazon is not nearly as good as Netflix or Apple in negotiating agreements with content providers and have been unwilling to “start small” like Netflix did in Canada.
Now if Apple took an interest in creating new content for iTunes, that would be disruptive.
Exactly.