During this week’s lectorial, our guest lecturer Dr Ramon Lobato told us some information about Netflix and television industry.

I already knew that broadcasting TV channels’ role in the industry is getting smaller but it still surprised me that 25 percent of the households in Australia subscribed to Netflix. Nowadays less people are watching broadcast TV because watching things online is way more convenient and there are more contents. For example YouTube and Netflix. You can basically find everything you need on those two platforms. But can they really take over the TV industry? That is the biggest question I had after I finished listening the class.

I am a big fan of superhero TV shows, so I would like to put superhero shows on TV channels and Netflix into a comparison. Super girl, Flash, Arrow, Agents of shield are the four main superhero TV shows on TV channels. On the other side Netflix has its own marvel universe based on The Defenders. I have watched every single superhero show Netflix made and those ones made by TV channels. The first thing I noticed is quality of acting. These actors and actresses in Netflix shows can really tell the audience what is on their mind by one face impression, they can show the fear in their eyes. That is one thing the shows on television failed to accomplish. Netflix also has better special effect, but I think that’s mainly because they had a bigger budget for the show. Just like no other TV show has a better dragon than The Game Of Thrones.(At least I haven’t seen one) Overall, the shows on Netflix has a higher quality, since TV shows are the main thing they make, this level of quality is what audience would expect.

One more thing I want to mention is, why those “Chinese” characters can’t even speak Chinese properly???????

It is a bit hard for YouTube to completely take over the role bracts TV’s role in the industry, the online live streaming channels are still in development, it is not mature enough to become the world dominating form of media. The older generations are used to watching TV channels and the 24-hour news report. That is something YouTube isn’t quite capable of yet. But looking at the speed of online video platforms developing, it might just be a matter of time for them to become the world’s most used form of media.

In conclusion, I think Netflix has already developed better quality TV series than most TV channels and it also has a huge amount of subscribers. But only using YouTube and not watching broadcast TV at all would be a huge change in a lot of people’s lives. It might still take some more time for online video platforms to completely take over the industry but nobody knows what will happen in the future. It might just be a matter of time.

This whole post looks a bit messy tho…. Hope it makes sense LOL.