TV must adapt or die

Over the last few years there have been a lot of changes in how I watch TV. A while ago I basically stopped watching about 90% of the shows I used to watch.  For one reason or another, for some I lost interest for others I simply did not have the time to watch them anymore.

When Natasha was born there was even less time to watch TV. The few moments that I found, I watched what ever was on at that time, without having any shows I was truly following. Lately I basically stopped watching TV all together.

TV is simply to restricting. The shows I want to watch are never when I have the time to watch them. I also don't want to be tracking the schedule of all the shows I want to watch to tape them. The Internet has taken place of my primary entertainment and news source. If I want to watch a TV show I can easily find it on the net. I can almost say that TV is dead to me.

I think this is how it is for a lot of people.  If TV networks don't come up with a different business model I can foresee TV growing increasingly irrelevant and eventually die.  What we need is an on demand model of TV.  Any show at any time delivered to my living room.  I don't know how realistic this model is but something must be done.  

For the moment a big problem of course is that if people like me continue to only watch TV on line, the shows we love to watch will stop being made because nobody is watching them on TV. 

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Posted by: marygiel
Posted on: 10/8/2007 at 6:46 PM
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Turt99

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:48 PM

Isn't this called Rogers on Demand? its not every show that you can get at any time but I'm sure they do something like this. Personally I have a PVR and I can say I like this show tape it any time it comes on. So then for a show like Survivor I can watch it whenever I want to after its been on, and the PVR watches the schedule for me so I don't have to worry about taping it every week or anything

Matthew

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:57 PM

My biggest problem is that I never know what to watch so I would not even program the PVR if I had one to record the shows I want. I usually have "moods" ha, where I want to watch a specific show (and it might have aired years ago) and there is simply no way to do that with TV.

Rogers on Demand is a step in a good direction but until they offer everything that's ever on TV its to limiting.

(Rogers on Demand is perfect for my baby, who loves to watch the baby TV songs)

Julia

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:09 PM

I think you have a great point there as you certainly haven't been watching any TV lately.. well, very rerely anyway. So as long as you don't get any silly ideas into your head such as 'cancelling our TV', you can safely come home from work and expect dinner.

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