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- Epitaph, on 03/01/2009, -9/+116I haven't turned my TV on in probably 6 months.
- Quicksilver4648, on 03/01/2009, -4/+75Hulu.com provides Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Daily Show, and Colbert Report. SouthParkStudios.com provides new episodes of South Park. Netflix offers me films and tv series. The only thing I pay for is Netflix which costs $9 a month. No need for cable.
- astrixx, on 03/01/2009, -0/+60Why do you think comcast put a bandwidth cap on its internet? They don't want the internet to take over their more profitable cable television.
- Pinkertinkle, on 03/01/2009, -7/+65TV is the next newspapers.
- poopsybythebay, on 03/01/2009, -6/+63I have my on I just never actually look at it or listen to it. It is great background noise.
- lom888, on 03/01/2009, -4/+55A population which is becoming more accustomed to tailoring entertainment their personal demands can only be aggravated by the limited scope of the networks. They produce mass generic entertainment in a time which people are more often identifying themselves by the entertainment they consume and have little patience for the mediocre as they can simply go to the web or dvd to watch something of quality. It's no longer the '80s, the networks can't pump out garbage and still have a captive audience. Hopefully they will go down, they've been using the public airwaves as a tool for private commercial profit and not giving much back. For 20 years now they have been starving their hard news departments and putting more money into "infotainment." The past decade of reality slop that has been littering the airwaves is the closing argument against them. We shouldn't morn the networks when they're gone.
- sjbdallas, on 03/01/2009, -3/+53It's just another example of a form of media failing to adapt. They cancel good shows based on an antiquated rating system and continue to produce shows no one watches because it's cheap (or because someone subsidized it like I assume Ford did for Knight Rider).
- cliffzdude, on 03/01/2009, -2/+46Who watched TV? The vast majority of American households, that's who. Sure it sounds cool to say TV is passé, but it doesn't reflect reality.
- psion01, on 03/01/2009, -2/+41Well, Commander Data said in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Neutral Zone" that television didn't survive long past the start of the 21st century. I guess now we know why.
What? Why do you people keep staring at me like that when I post? - cliffzdude, on 03/01/2009, -5/+40You're in the definite minority. Not arguing - just sayin'...
- gotpwr, on 03/01/2009, -10/+45Get ride of commercials and reality tv.
- blangley, on 03/01/2009, -3/+32The internet saved me from reality TV...
- flamyngo, on 03/01/2009, -2/+30My grandma still has trouble with email... I think TV still has a few good years left...
- rolf, on 03/01/2009, -0/+21It's not just that. TV itself is now fragmented into 100s of channels. When I do watch TV, it's never a network but Discovery or Science channel and the like. Every year there are more channels fighting for a smaller and smaller pie.
The reason I don't watch networks besides uninteresting programming is the intrusive advertisment. They always ruin things by having stupid ***** flash, wave, or whatever in the corners. And if something subtitled comes on, they end up blocking those to with their stupid crap. - username7410, on 03/01/2009, -4/+25That's what keeps it alive at this point. That and sports.
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -1/+22True, and weird how newspapers are not dead yet.
- ipushmycar, on 03/01/2009, -2/+22I'm quite insulted when I turn on the TV. Why? Because all the new popular shows are absolutely 100% retarded. It is obvious that TV networks think their audience (us) is shallow and unintelligent. They continue to remake the same shows with slightly different plot twists thinking that they're fooling the audience into a whole new show.
I refuse to watch TV unless it's a sports game. Get rid of all this reality TV *****. Oh yeah, and the news nowadays seems more like a game show or a sport then actual news. Way too much bias, way too much pop culture crap I don't care about. I'm more interested in what the hell our government is doing and what is going on in Israel rather than some stupid bitch that has way too many children. And WTF is with this Hudson river plane crash *****? Okay, I get it, the pilots are heros, saved lives, everyone is okay. Stop displaying it 24/7 for weeks straight like it's the biggest thing to happen since slice bread. God I hate the news. Fox news can go to hell. You're making the nation dumber. - AngelBunny, on 03/01/2009, -0/+20ugg. i hate channel surfing through reality tv shows and advertisements. 15 years ago channel surfing was decent. today it is all crap.
- Phillycat81, on 03/01/2009, -2/+22How arrested development dies after 3 seasons and according to jim is still running is beyond me.
- DirtyVicar, on 03/01/2009, -0/+19"TV Logos Blamed for Plasma Screen Burn-In"
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/01/tv_l ... - V1ncent, on 03/01/2009, -4/+23I can't stand the channel logos ever since they started putting them on the broadcasts, so I prefer watching a full season on DVD. The logos used to stay on for a sec then they turned them on almost all the time and now they're so large they take up too much real estate on the small screen
- kwynn87, on 03/01/2009, -2/+21All I need is hulu, xbmc, netflix, and torrents and my 50 inch tv connected to my htpc to keep me satisfied. Oh and porn.
- artfuldodga, on 03/01/2009, -1/+18i hope not, because the minute it dies, the internet will the new 'TV' and i'm sure the networks and telco's will ***** us entirely, like they have in many ways already
- greevar, on 03/01/2009, -0/+17BRING BACK TECH TV DAMMIT!!!
/rant - Shuk, on 03/01/2009, -0/+16TV isn't dying anytime soon. People like to sit on their couches and watch a nice big TV that's a good distance away from them. A Digital Cable box and subscription makes it simple for most people. With PVRs and Tivos, commercials are a non-issue. People aren't going to torrent their shows in HD and then hook up their PCs/laptops to their TV. And if you think that people are just going to switch to Hulu, realize that people outside the US watch TV too.
- upick, on 03/01/2009, -10/+26Who watches TV now that we have Hulu & YouTube
- JYoungest1, on 03/01/2009, -2/+18TV is great, well until you get into the commercials. The local ones make me want to vomit.
- rd1010, on 03/01/2009, -0/+15Yes you are right, this is something I've thought about a lot, they are trying to protect their dead technology
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -1/+16TV is not the problem it is the stupid shows they put on the air, what makes them think people want to watch these boring types of shows. Also as far as the news media goes it is very biased and full of lies and propaganda so of course people do not want to waste there time watching it
- IIECONII, on 03/01/2009, -1/+15Yes, TV is dying, but IT DOESN'T HAVE TO!
I think the public is getting sick of the ads every 12 minutes and generally being treated like a piece of *****. Change the model, adapt with the times.
I don't watch my TV anymore. 100% online.
I called my cable company to turn it off, and they would charge me a $10 fee to have an "internet-only" service.
I'm paying $15 currently for basic. (ch. 2-22). I'd be saving $5 turning off my TV completely.
I'll let them take the $5, I guess. If something HUGE happens in the world, I can flip to that.
...the sad part is, is that I could probably get that info quicker online... - spyd3rweb, on 03/01/2009, -1/+15Newspapers actually have some intellectual and worthwhile content in them. Plus I like getting ads of all the sales in town, the comics, and you can always find useful stuff in the classified ads. You can try doing that on the internet but it will take much longer and you have to use a bunch of different sites and there will be fake listings, spam, etc. You get all this and a relaxing hour to sit down and read something for around 50 cents.
- DJBONEZ, on 03/01/2009, -3/+17That's funny, I was just thinking the same thing. As far as watching it, every once in a while I will watch a TV program I enjoy, but for the most part is is just one more thing to keep my mind entertained when on the computer. Apparently though it is bad for you because "this generation" is becoming unable to function without multiple input's etc. w/e idk lol
- linagee, on 03/01/2009, -0/+14flip through 500 channels of cable and find nothing is on. equal waste of time.
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -1/+14TV is not going away. Most people aren't the type to geek out and torrent all their TV shows. Most would rather crash on the couch after work and channel surf, not invest time into going online and searching for what you want to watch. Besides Hulu or Youtube even with HD will never look as good as digital television which isn't as compressed down.
- lateralus, on 03/01/2009, -4/+17It was probably a typo. Should read *off*
- DirtyVicar, on 03/01/2009, -0/+13Well, Comcast can't stop Netflix by mail, at least.
- linagee, on 03/01/2009, -1/+14Watching sports is like playing a non-interactive game.
- Wilddigi, on 03/01/2009, -2/+14same here
- kaaBOOM, on 03/01/2009, -4/+16I gave my TV away (no one would even buy it) about a year ago. Because I never turned it on in over three years. Didn't even have it plugged in. Why watch TV when you've got the internet? For me it's all about on-line news and video clips, LiveLeak, YouTube and the like. In the rare event that I hear about a TV show that I just got to watch. Then I just watch it on Hula. But that doesn't happen often. TV is just so repetitious and boring.
- aTroll, on 03/01/2009, -5/+17all of which suck
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -0/+11who? More people than watch Hulu. That's who.
Who uses an iPod these days? Who drinks Coca Cola? Who eats food these days? - Wilddigi, on 03/01/2009, -4/+15The holodeck will replace the TV
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -0/+11Channel surfing finds me stuff you just won't find on places like Youtube or Hulu. Today I saw a special on national geograph about people who fell 20,000 feet and survived. Would you find that ever on Hulu sandwiched between Family Guy and Heroes? No.
- AngelBunny, on 03/01/2009, -0/+11over 80% of comcast customers are their customers because there is no other broadband options in that given area and I'm one of them.
for now comcrap has a near monopoly and they use that to try to get away anything. If fios was in this area I'd get it in a heartbeat. - rolf, on 03/01/2009, -1/+11They went to reality TV because it was cheap to produce even if it bought in less audience. I think the era of great sitcoms are gone for this same reason. When a show ever took off, you inevitably had one of the cast asking for more money, and then the entire cast. I think something like Friends had each of the 6 members ask for and recieve something like $1M an episode near the end. I suspect that really good sitcoms will come back in two ways: via the internet with a small group of people with a good idea distributing their thing on the cheap. Or when all the entire show can be completely computer generated to perfection - very easiliy, fast, convincingly and importantly, cheaply. Cheap CG prodution just isn't there yet. They also still have to get beyond the uncanny valley stage. Hell, individual voices are harder for humans to detect, especially if they're rather generic, so they can still use voice actors that can be switched out. But it gets rid of the weakness of any production - the real actors and their demands.
TV might be slumping but they should do what everyone else does and cut costs. That probably mostly means bloated salaries along the entire chain. - Trilogy, on 03/01/2009, -0/+10Well, as the content of Hulu is restricted to US, I'd say a plenty of people still use something else. Youtube quality is pretty much appalling and almost all interesting content (yes, copyrighted that is) gets deleted quite swiftly and all left are some old clips everyone has seen already (coming from copyright holders, ofc).
- twiztidsinz, on 03/01/2009, -0/+10But all the articles say "BREAKING:"....
- m0n0kr0m3, on 03/01/2009, -1/+10Kill Your Television!!!!
- HigherLogic, on 03/01/2009, -1/+10When Hulu and YouTube can stream to my HDTV in 1080i then I'll stop paying ~$130/month for cable.
- heyitsguay, on 03/01/2009, -0/+9If television networks were smart, they'd be getting in front of internet-based streaming of television and the business models that entails, bolstering investment in the field in general and ensuring their own continued revenue streams. Instead they'll cling to a dying medium soon to be as outdated as the 8-track and inevitably go out of business. Whether it's in a few years or they get a few billion from the government to prolong their decay remains to be seen.
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