Step change

That the Emmy nominations included so many citations for a series produced exclusively for web distribution must have come as a shock for the heads of old-school television networks.

I find it salutary to recall that back in 1999 I was frustrated by the constraints limiting online video... often stuttering at 12fps and in a window sized roughly like a credit card. Who then would have dared to predict that conventional linear television programming would be so soon under threat?

"I was lucky to get into film at a time that was very interesting for drama. But if you look now, the focus is not on the same kind of films that were made in the nineties. When I look now, the most interesting plots, the most interesting characters, they are on television."

— Kevin Spacey

“This is the future, streaming is the future. Television will not be television in five years from now... everyone will be streaming.”

— Beau Willimon

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Wired Magazine puts it all into perspective here.