How do you think the TV and film industry will look like several years from now on?
 

I'm think about 10 years or so, but if you'd like to you can try and predict things 20 years or 30 years from now.

Well, predicting the future isn't something anyone can do, so take it with a grain of salt, please.

First of all, I suspect more streaming services will pop up and saturate the market even more, which will make it harder for people to watch some stuff they want to watch since not everything they like or are interested in is available in the same service. And no one has money to subscribe to every possible streaming service available. In fact that's already happening nowadays, but I suspect it will be even worse in the next several years.

Second, superhero movies will eventually stop being cool and trendy. Hollywood has saturated the market with Marvel films in the last several years. This craze won't last forever.

Third, shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park will eventually come to an end. They've been ongoing for ages, especially The Simpsons, and neither show is in their prime anymore. So eventually they're gonna have to pull the plug.

Fourth, I think remakes will still be made for at least another decade or two. But then they'll reach a point where they'll run out of things to remake since they'll realise they've already remade "everything" and haven't created much original content in the previous 30 years or so. I wonder if until then a new generation of creative creators will step up and invent a bunch of new awesome stuff?

I don't think TVs will go away any time soon. We still need them to play videogames on! And TVs have a bigger resolution than phones or tablets do.

Thoughts?

The only thing I can predict is that first, streaming services are going to pop up all over the place, and that after that, someone actually is going to come up with the "brilliant" idea of just bundling them ALL together and charging a flat monthly fee... which is what we already had before. But there's really no other way it can go; people are already complaining that there's too many streaming services and there's still more on the way. It's not sustainable. People would rather pay one company a flat rate for all of it than cherry-pick between multiple options and end up paying more money for less content. "Only pay for what you want to watch!" sounded nice in theory, but the reality is that people want a lot more variety than they can get with the current streaming model. And nobody is going to pay for 8-10 different streaming services every month just to watch one or two shows and a handful of movies on each of them.

Disney will whine since Disney+ is most of their income right now, but they'll negotiate some kind of huge sweetheart deal where they get more of a kickback than all the other content providers do.

Other than that, who knows?

I sure hope so. A single centralised giant streaming service of some sort would be nice.

I do wonder if it won't get any harder to watch more obscure stuff though. Most of the stuff available on Netflix, for example, is stuff everyone knows. More obscure movies, especially those that are NOT American, will only be possible to find in digital format through piracy. Which is pretty much the case already. But if legal streaming keeps growing to the point where all blockbusters and popular TV shows become available on a single service, that means piracy of movies and TV shows will most definitely decline. And thus it will be even harder to find a lot of hidden gems.

That's essentially what cable/satellite already was anyway. It's just that every ten years or so they have to pretend to sell you on a "new" format so they can get subscription and sign-up fees all over again. So they scale back content, charge more money for separate "exclusives", then eventually lump it all together and we're back where we started.