Quotes About Streaming

On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does.

I really don't like to talk about my financial situation live on stream.

Yes!" he yells like he just cured cancer. He even smiles when he looks at me. "Remember my streaming service?" "You mean your betrayal of all movie rental shops ever? I remember.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

I think shows being sent out this way - pressing a button and 10 episodes can go out to the U.S.A., and the U.K. and Germany, it's very cool.

People don't buy CDs so much anymore because it's easy to download everything. So, while the record industry is declining, the music is heard a lot more than before.

People are really into on-demand consumption. I watch everything myself on demand.

I'm a big fan of TV on demand. I'm embarrassed to say what I watch. It's the worst crap.

We don't want to be part of some Tidal 'streaming revolution,' nor do we want to be Taylor Swift and be anti-it.

Some of the revenues have simply moved elsewhere (to streaming services, say), but there is a lot of free listening. The gap between what a consumer pays and the value he or she receives from the purchase is called "consumer surplus," and the growing prevalence of zero-priced goods and services online seems to be increasing consumer surplus.14

Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.

Netflix gives a lot of creative and artistic freedom to its actors and to its production team and whatnot.

As a touring musician over the last 15 years, before streaming and iPods, you had to listen to terrestrial radio wherever you were. That's always been my way of connecting to a location. Turn on the radio, search through the dial.

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

I watch box sets. I worked my way through 'Breaking Bad' and 'Prison Break.'

We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.

I haven't watched any shows online but I know that the content is not crippled by censorship and is much more experimental.

I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.

Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma.

The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming.

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.

We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies.

We've still got a cathode ray TV with a big back. An ancient, massive thing. All our teenagers' friends come round and say the TV's really cool. The picture is so much better than HD TVs - everything looks like film. It's not digital, and we still haven't got Netflix. It's too confusing.

Historically, more media has been consumed sitting in front of the television than any other device. Controlling this screen has been the goal of major technology, consumer electronic, and telecommunications companies.