Posted on 01/26/2013 3:52:18 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Veteran programmer Rob Barnett recently attended a breakfast meeting of television executives where the talk turned, as it almost always does these days, to “disruption,” the industry buzzword for the way new technology is upsetting the TV applecart. From somewhere down the table, he heard a question: “Has anybody here cut the cord?” — that is, dropped cable service in favor of just watching TV through the Internet? Barnett shrugged and raised his hand. “Mine was the only one,” he recalls. “But when it went up, I saw beads of sweat break out on the foreheads of some of the guys across the table.”
When Barnett and 5,000 or so others gather Monday for the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) convention at the Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach, there will be plenty of sweaty foreheads, some acquisitive smiles and — perhaps most numerous — blank looks of confusion. Not since cable turned the old three-channel TV universe on its head in the late 1970s has the industry been in such a state of disoriented befuddlement.
New technologies that give viewers more say in what they watch, where they watch and how much they pay for it are great for consumers. But they’re inducing a collective nervous breakdown among industry executives, who have to figure out new ways to make money in a business facing serious threats to its traditional sources of revenue — advertising and cable-TV subscriptions.
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Well, if you can get used to watching foreign TV and all their idiosyncracies I would suggest starting with shows like “Secret Garden”, “You’re Beautiful”, “My name is Kim Sam-Soon”, “Rooftop Prince”.
At the moment I am watching, and waiting for new eps, of “Cheongdam-dong Alice” (a girl tries to become a gold digger aka “flower snake”), The “Great Seer” (a period drama about the end of the Goryeo era and start of Joseon), just started with “Flower Boy Next Door” comedy (a female recluse or shut-in spies (crushes) on a male neighbor and suddenly circumstances won’t let her hide from the world)
I just finished watching “King of Dramas” and not long ago I watched a series called “Faith” which had a great cast and the first ep was awesome but their budget problems showed.
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Roku is pretty great. The only problem we have is at busy bandwidth times our dsl speed drops precipitously.
Roku is pretty great. The only problem we have is at busy bandwidth times our dsl speed drops precipitously.
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Good stuff, thanks!
LOL, it sounds like the music you get when you crank up a Jack-in-the-box to me, with a tone deaf nasally guy straining his voice over it in Spanish.
There is some good music out of Latin America, but for some reason the music to which most Mexicans in my exposure listen is that stuff, old fashioned and sort of childish. I don’t understand the appeal of it at all.
“I do watch a lot of subtitled Korean shows online, I find them better (broadcast TV in Korea has stricter content standards, so they actually have to have a story- imagine that) than anything on American TV.
Got any suggested viewing?”
Loved - Jumong, Dae Jang Geuma a/k/a Jewel in the Palace, Dong-Yi, Yi San, Painter of the Wind, JeeJungwon, currently airing and showing on Hulu Plus - The Horse Doctor and for our absolute favorite - Tree with Deep Roots also sometimes listed as Deep Rooted Tree, it is a fabulously well written, acted, filmed historical mystery. Can’t recommend these enough.
My local cable provider ceased business when some digitized requirements became too expensive. I have satellite but it is so expensive for even minimum channels. I watch a lot of shows online, so I am cutting the cord on satellite in February. I already have Roku for Netflix and Pandora and Huluplus will be so much cheaper.
Yep. They just try to force you to “bundle”. I refused.
I would love to see conservatives get together and make sitcoms, dramas and other types of shows online, if they can get enough like-minded people to support them.
It all makes sense in a twisted sort of way as they play it while someone is blindly flailing away at an effigy with a club.
I heard it was a lot like Apple TV, no?
And here's exhibit A to back your assertion, Gael Garcia Bernal: Quiero Que Me Quieras. The singer seems to have some, ahem, metrosexual traits in spite of the appealing "scenery".
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+++++++++++++ It had to have been just over 10 years ago I was listening to Glenn Beck. He had just moved to Philadelphia? Well it was one of his many moves. Anyway it ripped into Comcast cable for days, once spending a whole hour on it, about how lousy their setup service was. I had never heard of Comcast until I heard Glenn talk of it and after his rant was not sure I wanted it.
If you think the Roku is great, try out a more powerful box like the WD TV Live Hub. Not only can it do Netflix in 5.1 HD and Hulu, it can play back the vast majority of any media you download on your PCs either locally copied to its internal 1TB hard disk or over your network. It doesn’t care. Up to 1080p MKV... Roku doesn’t handle high def compressed formats.
We cut the cord over a year ago. Don’t miss it in the slightest and save around $500-700/yr.
I am so glad that my husband and I decided on Jan. 1st, 2013, to starve the beast!! We disconnected from our satellite dish and our landline phone all in the same week. We connected to Roku and Hulu and I personally love it!! We hooked up Magic Jack for 19.99 a year and kept our same phone number. I will not be a sheep anylonger and am thrilled that we are making them sweat! So long cable!
LOL, that was some sort of parody, right? It was colorful, with nice scenery at least.
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