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TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

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Re: TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

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Post by icebraining »

peferron wrote: post #65
marquis wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went to see the last Batman franchise film last year, which I found horribly boring. I actually had a moment where my hands reached out in the dark for the fast-forward button, which took me by surprise as to how used I am to having those controls now. I'm well into my 30s so I can only imagine how reactive it is for young kids to not have this ability.

That's the exact reason why I love the movie theater: no one has any control at all outside of walking out, so everyone pushes their ADHD to the side and commits to the movie for two hours. Once the movie is over, you might still think it was shitty and a waste of time, but at least you gave it a fair shot. Try watching a slow movie like Gattaca at home, with a dozen devices and apps competing to take your attention…

Well, movie theaters don't really force you to commit to the film; my friend and I walked out of the Tree of Life, for example.

That said, and for all the love I have for computers and even for my Nexus tablet, I fear I'll become an anti-smartphones curmudgeon soon. I already feel uncomfortable when everyone takes theirs out right after lunch, killing any possibility of a conversation.

Re: TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

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Post by DigitalSea »

This is why it baffles me, day in and day out without fail everyone speculates Apple are going to revolutionise TV with Apple TV. Television is a dying medium, I download and consume all of my media on my phone and computer. The only time I ever use my TV is when I want to watch downloaded content on a larger screen and copy it to a USB drive to watch on my TV. Good riddance.

Re: TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

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Post by tsotha »

alfiejohn_ wrote: post #46
bluthru wrote: post #5

Making me turn on the TV at a specific time and date to watch something is such alien notion to me at this point. All of these shows worry about schedules and what's on other networks, but that's eventually not going to matter at all.

"You mean everybody had to sit down and watch the same thing at the same time?" -- kids of the tomorrow

The article doesn't break it down by demographics, but everything I've read on the subject shows an enormous generational split. The kids have already abandoned cable, so unless they somehow change their habits the clock is ticking on broadcast television.

Re: TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

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Post by tsotha »

VLM wrote: post #59
andyl wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow - these graphs show 20-46 hours of viewing per week . Per week. I had no idea.

The data is bogus. A full time job with modest overtime... watching TV? There is not physically enough time in the week.

Not everyone has a full time job. The labor force participation rate is only about 63% in the US.

Also, I think a lot of people need television as background noise. They don't necessarily watch it, but it's on while they do chores and what not.

Re: TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

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Post by selmnoo »

jseliger wrote: post #94
shiftpgdn wrote: post #3

Good riddance. I cut the cord about a year and a half ago and replaced my cable box with a Roku box. There was a brief period where I missed the background noise but now I find broadcast/cable television unbearably grating. Frankly I think the cable companies brought it upon themselves with the constant loud commercial interruptions, the garbage programming, and the utterly miserable cable box interfaces.

Good riddance The downside is that cable subscribers subsidize the handful of TV shows I actually want to watch. Individually, every person who quits makes a rational decision, but when everyone quits we don't get a lot of good shows. Maybe Netflix or Amazon or whoever will take up the slack. Or maybe those shows will just go away.

> Maybe Netflix or Amazon or whoever will take up the slack. Or maybe those shows will just go away.

It already is. Netflix is funding a lot of new stuff (House of Cards, Orange is the new Black, lots of standup stuff). Note that this stuff is being received very well by normal consumers and critics alike. They're also funding canceled shows like Arrested Development, Lillyhammer, etc.

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Post by BrandonMarc »

gibybo wrote: post #93
spiritplumber wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Roughly never -- the satellites would just be repurposed. Sending mass to geostationary is EXPENSIVE. Like, 100k$/kilogram.

I've been wondering what Direct TV will do with its satellites in 10-20 years when it doesn't make sense to use them for TV anymore. I haven't been able to imagine any significant uses, have you? There's weather services (for ships and aircraft outside of ground station range), radio (but this is really niche), high latency internet (for, say, cruise ships), maybe some other small niche services. But what's going to…

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Re: TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

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Post by eropple »

jstalin wrote: post #91
dinkumthinkum wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So are all the shows you watch on Netflix purely ones created by Netflix and not ones that came from one of those ... those TV channels?

I don't know... and I don't care.

It is in your best interest to care, because otherwise these commons get mighty tragic. You are getting content without paying a representative cost of that content. Which is good for you! For now. But be prepared for that to change, and probably sooner than you'd like.

Re: TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

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Post by interpol_p »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #3

Good riddance. I cut the cord about a year and a half ago and replaced my cable box with a Roku box. There was a brief period where I missed the background noise but now I find broadcast/cable television unbearably grating. Frankly I think the cable companies brought it upon themselves with the constant loud commercial interruptions, the garbage programming, and the utterly miserable cable box interfaces.

I'm in the same position. I cut the cord five years ago and have just been using Apple TV for Netflix.

TV commercials are impossible to put up with. They are almost painfully annoying. When I'm visiting my family I just have to turn off the TV, it's impossible to concentrate on conversation otherwise.

Re: TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

_wp3r wrote: post #38
dinkumthinkum wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because of ads? Isn't that only thing that makes these weekend projects that are basically yet another photo sharing app worth billions of dollars??

Except most of the users of those weekend projects do not pay $100 dollars a month to access the site, and then still have ads everywhere.

I think the idea there is people would rather see ads than pay the mi h larger sum that would be required to fund those shows without ads ... Funny thing, economics.

Re: TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

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Post by randomdata »

eropple wrote: post #107
jstalin wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know... and I don't care.

It is in your best interest to care, because otherwise these commons get mighty tragic. You are getting content without paying a representative cost of that content. Which is good for you! For now. But be prepared for that to change, and probably sooner than you'd like.

I've found content on Youtube by independent productions to be far better than what is on Netflix, so perhaps it is not that tragic. My tastes are probably not representative, but those types of productions are bound to improve as mainstream production quality declines, kind of like we've seen with music.
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