Video on the cheap

Recording became cheap. You didn't need a big pricey studio anymore to make a recording. Hell, you don't need a broadcast studio to make podcasts. Technology has rendered it cheap. Anybody with very little investment can make a good recording.

And it's happening to video as we speak.

You won't need public access television. You can make, edit and distribute video in your basement these days. Hell, I could, or should make a damned talk show in the front room with webcams and lapel microphones and mix the mess in computer.

And why the hell not do it now?

There's a question of studio space. How could you take someplace and turn it into a set? What are the possiblities of doing something like a talk show, or a kiddy show, or Kiddie a go go or any of the staples of early television? Sitting behind a desk with a blank wall behind you?