I know, right? They could have at least tried to answer your question in the other 37 minutes of the podcast that you didn't listen to. Misleading indeed.
Coincidentally, renaming the players would be a great way to tie into one of their sketches where they poke fun at ridiculous real life player names. Imagine them covering Superb Owl starting with Tyroil Smoochie-Wallace, [Construction Noise], Javaris Jamar Javarison-Lamar and X-Wing @ Aliciousness.
My homebrew DVR setup has commercial detection now so I don't even need to skip. It's pretty neat but at the same the time it's rather pathetic that I felt the need to install it in the first place or worse, spend all this money setting it up.
That's just it, Lauriel; the young male demographic isn't key anymore. If you haven't already I would recommend taking a look at Johanna Blakley's talk at TED in which she demolishes the perception that demographics are a valuable metric in our online culture.
I feel your wife's pain. That happened to me one time too many so I ended up putting together my own PVR with a spare server and some Hauppauge HD encoders. It was expensive to start and I'm still paying up the nose for my Comcast subscription but it's still the only way to access all the content I want to watch the way I want to watch it. I've even got a program running that strips commercials out of my recordings. Soon, very soon, I think I'll be able to go all online and my hat is off to those that have already cut the (television) cord.
That certainly sounds like a good justification to keep them as an opt-in system. Perhaps the number of people who are online all the time has not quite yet reached critical mass but I have no doubt that we'll get there eventually.
Sounds like a great business model to me, AC. If every network streamed to Netflix and got dropped by cable providers as a result I would finally be able to ditch my cable TV and go online only. Yes please.
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Because hypocrisy is bad, that's why. Someone else can do the talking.
That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it works out for them.
It's not going to work out for them.
Re: Misleading?
I know, right? They could have at least tried to answer your question in the other 37 minutes of the podcast that you didn't listen to. Misleading indeed.
Re: Re: Re: Promoting promotions for the promo value.
Coincidentally, renaming the players would be a great way to tie into one of their sketches where they poke fun at ridiculous real life player names. Imagine them covering Superb Owl starting with Tyroil Smoochie-Wallace, [Construction Noise], Javaris Jamar Javarison-Lamar and X-Wing @ Aliciousness.
Re: Conspiracy Theory.
Sounds like the US needs to send Kevin Bacon on a mission to Germany. All he wants to do is dance!
Re: Too bad most of it is in neighborhoods most don't want to live in
On the other hand, this project may be a great first step in revitalizing those bad neighborhoods.
Twenty-eight comments and I don't see the requisite link to the Lana Yuup soundboard. Shame on you, Techdirt Archer fans.
My homebrew DVR setup has commercial detection now so I don't even need to skip. It's pretty neat but at the same the time it's rather pathetic that I felt the need to install it in the first place or worse, spend all this money setting it up.
Re: Re: Competition
That's just it, Lauriel; the young male demographic isn't key anymore. If you haven't already I would recommend taking a look at Johanna Blakley's talk at TED in which she demolishes the perception that demographics are a valuable metric in our online culture.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Ditch cable!!!
I feel your wife's pain. That happened to me one time too many so I ended up putting together my own PVR with a spare server and some Hauppauge HD encoders. It was expensive to start and I'm still paying up the nose for my Comcast subscription but it's still the only way to access all the content I want to watch the way I want to watch it. I've even got a program running that strips commercials out of my recordings. Soon, very soon, I think I'll be able to go all online and my hat is off to those that have already cut the (television) cord.
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That certainly sounds like a good justification to keep them as an opt-in system. Perhaps the number of people who are online all the time has not quite yet reached critical mass but I have no doubt that we'll get there eventually.
Sounds like a great business model to me, AC. If every network streamed to Netflix and got dropped by cable providers as a result I would finally be able to ditch my cable TV and go online only. Yes please.