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Originally Posted by jfman
Why would it go the way of the supermarkets and not the Big Six energy suppliers? Consistently high and rising prices. They control end to end distribution.
Supermarkets are ‘kept honest’ to a greater or lesser extent by alternatives out there.
Oligopoly is not equal to perfect competition. Not by a long shot.
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Indeed. Which is why I think the future of Hollywood will look exactly like it did when it originally started.
When the Studios started up, everything was done in-house. They employed all their own craftsmen, controlled distribution of their content and had exclusive deals with the top actors. It will go back to that, I reckon, just in a modern way.
At the moment, the Hollywood companies sell content to each other and many other broadcasters and distributors around the world. Soon, they will fully control their own content again, not sell it to others and probably sit around the table with the other big companies and fix the prices, if they're allowed to get away with it.
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
Amazon already has its own Studios.
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It's tiny. It will look much different if/when they gobble up a Hollywood major and some analysts are expecting that will be the CBS/Viacom company to be.