I share the same view as Jamie.

There’ll be plural supply, however, we might end up where some have always wanted to go…….

Replace Netflix with Xbox Live,or PS Network, or for that matter, just imagine MS buying Netflix.

The Web-Video and content industries should be promoting the tv-network model of plural supply and different subjective tastes having different distributors; in short, there should be as many stations on the web as there are broadcast, rather than the ClearChannel/WalMart/Web1.0 model of a single player pwning the entire market – or, yes even online, there might be the same consequences that the cinema industry suffers with consequence to non-mediagloms content.
Not now while the chess pieces in the industry are all up in the air, but once habits are formed and exclusivity placed.

Another part of the problem is the continuous name-checking of youtube by ignorant mainstream media, that gives it almost exclusive share of mind, when so often, it clearly doesn’t uniquely deserve it.

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

Bottom line, content producers have to get paid for what you are watching in some form or another, either advertising dollars or subscription based, or we will have nothing to watch! The production costs need to paid somewhere, can’t have the cake and eat it too.

People want TV on the go, but don’t want to pay for it. Until the carriers find a way to make more money with it than they do with plain mobile broadband — don’t hold your breath.

Even Qualcomm is havnig problems with their MediaFlo product because of the same reason, no one wants to pay for it and it costs too much to try and subsidize.