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TV talking heads, episodic/sitcom, and documentary material will indeed be hugely changed by this. You could get started making a decent quality 'internet TV' program like the one you linked to for only $1-2000; indeed I've toyed with the idea of doing a little cooking show because that's something I have pro experience with.

Serious longform drama...not so much. A simple 90 minute feature film that meets normal commercial expectations (ie doesn't look all weird an experimental, just tells a straight story like a detective mystery or something) requires about a month of photography and a year of post-production work and a budget in the low 6 figures, which means most people won't get paid. Of course you could try bootstapping it by making the thing in small chunks but that almost invariably ends up being at least twice as expensive.

There are ways around this, but you also have to ask yourself why most startups take cash from venture capitalists rather than relying on organic growth - doing it piecemeal is very very slow and many consumers will not have the patience for you to make incremental progress towards the goal.




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