With Netflix, one can watch films and TV series at the click of a button at the price of only €8 per month. No longer do people have to spend €40 on boxsets. Rather than waiting for a film to come on the television, they can watch it at any time. Gone are the days when one had to wait a week to watch each episode of their favourite shows.
But what does this mean for the future? With the popularity and efficiency of Netflix, will this mean the end for traditional television?
That's not to say that Netflix does not have it's limits. It only provides certain films and TV series in specific regions. HBO is notorious for only having one programme on Netflix (Rome). However, it has recently added True Blood to the site. Will we soon get The Sopranos, The Wire and Game of Thrones on Netflix?
Netflix has even began creating it's own original series', such as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, to critical acclaim. They have even recently signed a deal with Marvel Studios and will produce a five season anthology that will be part of their cinematic universe.
An extremely efficient factor of this is that one can watch an entire season in two or three sittings. Might it be the case in the not-too-distant-future that just about every TV series will be streamed at the earliest convenience? It certainly seems possible.
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