Posted on 08/05/2013 9:30:03 PM PDT by 867V309
Television has been a mainstay of American life since the late 1950s, but nothing lasts forever and one CEO of a major cable company is hinting that the end of TV could come sooner than we think.
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I used to enjoy the ag reports on radio as a way to keep some connection to the real world of hard work, weather, markets, business, farm life, and (the ugly part) getting up at dawn. Used to hear Terri Rae Elmer on KFBK in Sacramento until she went to lala land. Ag reports became history at that point. Sad.
I still admire the farmers of California that hang in there despite the state government insanity and the insane federal limits on water distribution. Along I-5, seeing miles of dead almond trees and land going back to desert next to a canal brimming with water drives home the insanity of idiot legislators and urban enviros who think loving the delta smelt will get them re-elected or laid or both.
Netflix has those shows, plus Breaking Bad and many others like that. Also, they have a lot of foreign stuff that’s really good. I got rid of my Comcast and have never regretted it.
If you play NetFlix through your Browser it auto plays the series. Not sure if it plays all of them with out stopping, maybe only 3 or 4.
I view TV mostly through my Mac Mini, just easier for me since I spend most of my time browsing, reading and editing profanity both visual and audio from a few TV shows to make them viewable for my wife.
I watch Netflix on my tv using roku. It auto-advances to the next episode, but you must push OK on your roku remote to start play.
Netflix also has several series of their own. House of Cards is excellent if you like political dramas. They also have Masterpiece Theater from PBS.
No surprisingly. It stars Kevin Spacey playing a ruthless democrat who plans revenge on the administration that he helped elect because he was passed over for an appointment as Secretary of State.
There is also a British version from the 90s.
OK, will take a look. Thanks for the info.
Not sure about HGTV stuff and Sons but the Walking Dead can be had from Amazon as a pay for digital download and you can watch each new episode within hours of it being shown on AMC. (I think after the west coast watches it.)
Its definitely leftist crap AND rightist crap and everything else BUT it is delivered without the hypocrisy. IOW they show Washington as it really is and how deals and back channel stuff takes places and it shows how everyone in the government is vying for power and/or money.
IOW they show every gruesome detail of how the sausage is made.
It is definitely worth your time.
Thanks for the review, now it’s a must see.
I cut the cable over two years ago and never looked back. Netflix, Roku, Amazon have enough content to last a lifetime. And if you want some of the new shows that you can’t get immediately through those services, you can always get a VPN and use bit torrent.
At the end of the day nothing is or will be free. The advertiser supported programming model will continue for quite some time. When that goes away it will become a subscription model where you have to buy a lineup of your choosing to be delivered to your TV. You may be able to buy individual shows - or have to buy a lineup for something like a month at a time. However your costs won’t go down.
The most economical delivery method for content is right now cable TV - despite the cost. Do the math - lets say you can buy any show you want for a buck. You only watch that show once a week - so you are at 4 bucks per month. But wait - you want to watch the Daytona 500 which is now pay per view - so that is $69.95. Throw in a few others and pretty soon you are paying $150 bucks for a month of entertainment that you currently get for $125. NO programming will cost you less than a dollar a show - ever despite what everyone is led to believe.
Costs of entertainment will continue to rise until people stop buying entertainment - which will be never.
That worked real well for the record industry. Right up until it didn't. Napster was a kick to the crotch of an industry that made fortunes by charging people $15 for a CD with maybe one or two decent songs on it. When the music cartel changed their business model to let me buy only what I wanted, I started buying their product again. Now I get what I want and pay a lot less. Cable tv will adapt or die.
Now all you sports fans...you're going to get screwed because the cable tv industry will wring every sent out of you. And I have a hard time feeling sorry for you. All those years I had to pay inflated cable bills to help subsidize a half dozen ESPN channels and three or four golf channels.
We used to watch quite a few Asian horror movies (the basis of so many US horrors). But, I have currently be working my way through quite a few European series on Netflix. Just finished Ripper Street. Have watched quite a few of the UK series. Need to get back to a Swedish series about a female crime reporter.
I think I like them better because the actors aren’t all glamorous, regular looking people. Their acting is years ahead of what America puts out week after week.
I notice there is no shortage of recording companies. In fact I can’t think of a single one that went out of business.
Cable TV will adapt to changes in the marketplace. And the content providers will adapt as well. The most reliable delivery method for the content people watch is via a wire into the home - your cell phone probably can’t deliver the bandwidth needed on a consistent basis to replace that wire.
So who one buys the content from will change, but it is doubtful that you will pay someone else for that wire into your home. HFC Cable plants can and do deliver 50 megs per second - that will stream an awful lot of content. So instead of a cable company paying for TV shows then charging the consumer they will just charge you for the required bandwidth to get those shows to your home via IP delivery. So instead of paying the cable company 125 bucks for TV you will pay 60 bucks for 30 megs per second, then buy your content direct from the creator. The Cable company will not lose any money.
And all those shows on Netflix - when the cable companies stop paying ABC for content, ABC won’t get by with less money - they will start charging Netflix more - which will of course pass those charges on to the consumer.
So when all these wonderful changes happen and everyone gets to cut their cable TV feed everyone will be paying relatively MORE for the same viewing that they have today.
Considering that the $55 I was paying for cable TV service was cut and replaced with $8 for Netflix and the rest I get for free as I have a PC that I built cabled into my home theater, I’m still way ahead. But I wish the cable industry and it’s networks the best of luck. I’m sure they still have lots of people who love paying for a science fiction channel that plays professional wrestling, 5 McHistory channels that take turns playing the same programs reminding us that the US won WWII and a smattering of faked “reality” tv shows.
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