[Shivetya]

Well we the consumers helped to create the new normal. There is no shortage of stories, comments, and the like, where people decried how evil it was for cable/satellite companies to bundle up everything and not allow us to choose. So we all flocked to streaming services declaring the freedom to choose and how much we saved.

Aggregators will have to return in some form or another but the danger here is that they likely not going to be independent from the studios as cable companies were in their original days; many were later bought up by big media conglomerates.

The difference though now is what we have now is not the same as theaters being forced to buy blind and entire set of movies. We are not prevented from having any number of streaming services.

Plus we can still binge watch series just like we did during the early days of netflix and hulu. we were binge watching series that had already had their weekly release schedule played out. you can do the same with current services, wait till the current season plays out then subscribe. now if services actively prevent binge watching a series then they should be called out on it - though not necessarily regulated over it.

We are still in the shake out period. There are so many services and some are cheap and others mind numbingly expensive for the content they offer. I don't expect them all to survive so their content will syndicate elsewhere.