Swimming up streams: Why watching online TV is getting so very complicated

For a brief moment in time, anyone hungry for online TV shows and movies had access to a buffet.
Services such as Netflix offered access to seemingly every show and movie we could want.
But that buffet is about to turn into a bento box, with slim selections of content parcelled out, each with its own fixed price.
Several film and television production companies are preparing exclusive online streaming services, which will each require a monthly subscription.
It’s a new dynamic that threate