I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.
We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.
So many people are are using the Internet now to watch movies and TV shows online.
This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
We're so connected, kind of ever-presently, with technology now. People are carrying their phones with them and looking at the screen so much.
If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.