Brian Roberts Quotes

It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

I don't think Apple has to own a content business.

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

When I joined Time Inc., one of the things that was important to me was ensuring that our content is where consumers want to read it. The Apple newsstand is an important place where a lot of consumers are. And Apple is really becoming a good partner to publishers. We are confident we can deliver a experience for our readers that 's really good.

The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.

NBC News will help define Comcast.

Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

I don't have television so I don't watch TV.

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.

I think that network TV is going to either have to reinvent itself or it's going to have to be more competitive - there are just so many options now with streaming and everything.

We took the brains out of the set-top box and put it in the cloud. Having our software in the cloud gives consumers the ability to click their remote control and navigate through thousands of choices in a simple and elegant way. That's magic.

I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.

There's no question that the Internet generally, and Netflix specifically, upended the traditional content-distribution supply chain and caused profound changes in the entertainment industry.

There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.

I don't even think in the future, pay-per-view is going to exist. You see Netflix and Amazon and what they're doing, and that's a model I think is going to grow and grow.

Streaming services are very important.

Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.

People already have tons of regular TV. They don't need more of that.

My dream scenario would be to partner with a huge media conglomerate, an NBC Universal or a Fox, and help give me a platform on television and help get me a TV show.

There are so many entertainment options - Netflix, Amazon, Hulu - and especially for younger people, who are Internet-savvy and video game fans.