UofT23 teksavvy.com
join:2008-07-23
Toronto, ON | death of traditional cable unavoidable I cancelled my roger's cable over a year ago. It was a little weird at first having to decide what I wanted to watch and then go find it instead of mindlessly staring at whatever slop the overpriced channels were serving up at that hour. Oh look, 10 channels playing the same horrible rerun from 20 years ago.
But you do get used to it and realise that time shifting, tivo, and all their other sad attempts to make you THINK you're getting to choose what you watch for $50 a month were just a wider selection of their choosing. And who needs TIVO with dirt cheap massive hard drives. Sure my PC won't record for me what it thinks I want to see, but it doesn't need to. The internet runs on my time unlike cable and I can watch whatever I want whenever I want.
Sure some stuff on the internet isn't as clear as HD tv but it will be in the near future I have no doubt and if seeing a pimple on a zebra's backside clearly is worth $50 month for poor programming then go for it. Most of the mainstream programmes can be watched in reasonably high quality anyway either on network websites or ultimately downloading.
To believe traditional cable TV isn't going to be in for hard times and eventual death is the same as believing VoIP isn't giong to essentially kill the landline. I have no doubt services that mimic cable will persist on the internet. Bringing you programming that requires copyright's paid for etc all in one easily accessible place. Like megavideo is now. But they will be far cheaper and more competitive than "cable" and offer far better selection. |
