You may be the first person I've read pining for a resurgence of cable TV subscriptions.
"If only there were some sort of way to … bundle all these channels together. And then pipe them straight to your TV with some sort of … cable."
"...that would allow us to edit all that content however we like. We could cut all those shows and movies into little 5-minute pieces, and insert a metric ton of paid advertising in the breaks. That way the audience has no chance of immersing themselves in the story or suspending their disbelief. While we’re at it, let’s go ahead and speed up the actual video. It may take away from the quality of the content, but it will give our paying customers so much more quality time with our paid advertisers. We should also make sure the volume of all those paid advertisements is somehow automatically set to IMAX theatre levels… our paying customers might not be able to hear about all our exciting offers from the restroom."
I'm willing to admit that something was lost when we finally got the freedom to watch whatever we want. Nobody is watching the same shows at the same time anymore.
You may be the first person I've read pining for a resurgence of cable TV subscriptions.
"If only there were some sort of way to … bundle all these channels together. And then pipe them straight to your TV with some sort of … cable."
"...that would allow us to edit all that content however we like. We could cut all those shows and movies into little 5-minute pieces, and insert a metric ton of paid advertising in the breaks. That way the audience has no chance of immersing themselves in the story or suspending their disbelief. While we’re at it, let’s go ahead and speed up the actual video. It may take away from the quality of the content, but it will give our paying customers so much more quality time with our paid advertisers. We should also make sure the volume of all those paid advertisements is somehow automatically set to IMAX theatre levels… our paying customers might not be able to hear about all our exciting offers from the restroom."
I'm willing to admit that something was lost when we finally got the freedom to watch whatever we want. Nobody is watching the same shows at the same time anymore.