Its a perfect time for blockbuster (dish network) to announce their streaming service to compete with netflix again! Rumors are that its going to be announced friday and supposedly its where starz ended up...
Eventually the the production houses and ISPs will start streaming, to cut out the middle man. While pricing may be fluctuate between them for awhile they will eventually come a consensus for "first run" pricing and then take an approach similar to itunes where there will be a max cost but at times there will be lower priced offerings.
At that time Hulu, and netflix will be nothing more than store faces to 2-3 different backbones
I seriously doubt they will offer direct. The reason for this is splitting their customer base. There needs to be universal customer market, and I guarantee the different production companies will not team up together. They never have in the past, either, btw.
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