The Brain (no TV)
Dec. 10th, 2006 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progI'm thinking about ditching my cable TV again.
I'm not sure it's worth ~$60 for the convenience of a massive amount of programming firehosed at me when I watch far less than one percent of it. This becomes even more true when you consider that that I which I do watch I can get over the Internet, dump on my iPod, and then watch on my TV set.
In some cases, I can even get the shows through whiter-than-gray channels like iTunes, negating any guilt about dropping out of the Nielsen game. (They'd cost two bucks a pop then, but I don't watch 30 episodes of anything in any month.)
Any counter-arguments?
I also have a consumer-political agenda here, since I'd like to become more active in agitating for the death of schedule-based broadcast television as the dominant medium for quality video content, be it fiction or anything else. (Though I'll be the first to admit that it's the surge in damn good SF shows over the last couple years that's driving me here. And the heartbreak and stress at knowing that they're trapped and suffering in a delivery/business model which they can and should outgrow.)
(And yes the entrepreneur in me is adding his voice to this. Just as a hobby, mind you.)
I'm not sure it's worth ~$60 for the convenience of a massive amount of programming firehosed at me when I watch far less than one percent of it. This becomes even more true when you consider that that I which I do watch I can get over the Internet, dump on my iPod, and then watch on my TV set.
In some cases, I can even get the shows through whiter-than-gray channels like iTunes, negating any guilt about dropping out of the Nielsen game. (They'd cost two bucks a pop then, but I don't watch 30 episodes of anything in any month.)
Any counter-arguments?
I also have a consumer-political agenda here, since I'd like to become more active in agitating for the death of schedule-based broadcast television as the dominant medium for quality video content, be it fiction or anything else. (Though I'll be the first to admit that it's the surge in damn good SF shows over the last couple years that's driving me here. And the heartbreak and stress at knowing that they're trapped and suffering in a delivery/business model which they can and should outgrow.)
(And yes the entrepreneur in me is adding his voice to this. Just as a hobby, mind you.)
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Date: 2006-12-10 11:59 pm (UTC)