Machinima - the future of Indie DTV?

I've been paying attention to the whole Machinima phenomenon. Machinima are short videos recorded in-game from popular video games that support it.

More recently, Activision has released The Movies -- a game about making movies, with the ability to create and view the movie itself.

This led me to think that perhaps the future of vidCasts will come from virtual studios like this. It's more economical and you can achieve better production quality, so it seems like the most practical video analogue of podCasts.