Comments on: The Future of Television http://particletree.com/notebook/the-future-of-television/ Everyone needs a hug. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:12:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jenny Young http://particletree.com/notebook/the-future-of-television/#comment-1426 Jenny Young Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:09:19 +0000 http://s2462.gridserver.com/wordpress/?p=166#comment-1426 <p>Everyone needs a hug.</p> Everyone needs a hug.

]]> By: Jeff http://particletree.com/notebook/the-future-of-television/#comment-1425 Jeff Wed, 25 Jan 2006 05:53:26 +0000 http://s2462.gridserver.com/wordpress/?p=166#comment-1425 <p>Yay for pay-per-show setups!</p> <p>I don't want to pay for 600 channels of content. I don't want to pay for 1 channel of content. I want to pay for the content <strong>direct</strong>.</p> <p>The idea of free pilots and $2 a show is great -- but it's still not enough to move away from ads. Ads make big, big bucks. Admittedly, an internet download delivery system would save money for the providers, but I don't see this happening without DRM.</p> <p>I applaud Apple for pushing this marker (downloadable shows) and even bought a show or two just to support the cause (the quality, quite honestly, is terrible). At least it's moving in the right direction. :)</p> Yay for pay-per-show setups!

I don’t want to pay for 600 channels of content. I don’t want to pay for 1 channel of content. I want to pay for the content direct.

The idea of free pilots and $2 a show is great — but it’s still not enough to move away from ads. Ads make big, big bucks. Admittedly, an internet download delivery system would save money for the providers, but I don’t see this happening without DRM.

I applaud Apple for pushing this marker (downloadable shows) and even bought a show or two just to support the cause (the quality, quite honestly, is terrible). At least it’s moving in the right direction. :)

]]> By: Ben Young http://particletree.com/notebook/the-future-of-television/#comment-1424 Ben Young Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:29:41 +0000 http://s2462.gridserver.com/wordpress/?p=166#comment-1424 <p>@the Author: Great article. It would be brilliant to be able to select the channels you really want, especially as there are people (like me) who don't watch a great deal of television on the whole, but enjoy specific shows or would like to subscribe to just one sport channel (Sky Sports 1, for example). They'd definitely get more custom, as I for one wouldn't subscribe to a big package deal, but would definitely go for an, as you put it, A La Carte option.</p> <p>@Mike Purvis: Excellent idea about free pilots, and not one I've heard suggested before. What a brilliant way to get new shows exposure, and to get a broader sample of public reaction.</p> @the Author: Great article. It would be brilliant to be able to select the channels you really want, especially as there are people (like me) who don’t watch a great deal of television on the whole, but enjoy specific shows or would like to subscribe to just one sport channel (Sky Sports 1, for example). They’d definitely get more custom, as I for one wouldn’t subscribe to a big package deal, but would definitely go for an, as you put it, A La Carte option.

@Mike Purvis: Excellent idea about free pilots, and not one I’ve heard suggested before. What a brilliant way to get new shows exposure, and to get a broader sample of public reaction.

]]> By: Mike Purvis http://particletree.com/notebook/the-future-of-television/#comment-1423 Mike Purvis Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:36:30 +0000 http://s2462.gridserver.com/wordpress/?p=166#comment-1423 <p>I've said before that pilots should be available for free. Apple.com/trailers has become as ubiquitous as IMDB in the online movie-loving community.</p> <p>Imagine the power of a similar distribution for TV pilots... go there, watch the 40 minute show, click to order the DVDs on Amazon. (or better yet, pay $2 on iTunes to grab the next episode and keep viewing)</p> <p>It'd be an amazing tool for evangelizing little-known or misunderstood shows.</p> <p>And once everything's completely on-demand, we'll see a surge in programming like Alias and Veronica Mars, where a significant element each episode is the continuous story that builds through the season. A lot of Anime is like this too, but North American viewers are apparently too married to the Friends sitcom model where every episode completely stands alone.</p> I’ve said before that pilots should be available for free. Apple.com/trailers has become as ubiquitous as IMDB in the online movie-loving community.

Imagine the power of a similar distribution for TV pilots… go there, watch the 40 minute show, click to order the DVDs on Amazon. (or better yet, pay $2 on iTunes to grab the next episode and keep viewing)

It’d be an amazing tool for evangelizing little-known or misunderstood shows.

And once everything’s completely on-demand, we’ll see a surge in programming like Alias and Veronica Mars, where a significant element each episode is the continuous story that builds through the season. A lot of Anime is like this too, but North American viewers are apparently too married to the Friends sitcom model where every episode completely stands alone.

]]> By: Chad Lawson http://particletree.com/notebook/the-future-of-television/#comment-1422 Chad Lawson Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:07:32 +0000 http://s2462.gridserver.com/wordpress/?p=166#comment-1422 <p>I'm glad that the FCC is thinking in the right direction, but I'd like to see them thinking a little <strong>further</strong> in that direction...</p> <p>Once TiVo came out, a couple fellow TiVo owners and I were discussing the future of television and the cost of getting the cable channels we wanted for a couple of shows.</p> <p>We had the idea of moving to a business model where you can subscribe to <em>specific shows</em> rather than channels.</p> <p>At $0.99/episode (picked arbitrarily, but based on iTunes model), my fiancee would pay about $3.96/month while I would pay closer to $31.68/month for my viewing habits.</p> <p>Maybe have pilot episodes available for free or for a lesser charge.</p> <p>Anyway... that was my $0.02.</p> I’m glad that the FCC is thinking in the right direction, but I’d like to see them thinking a little further in that direction…

Once TiVo came out, a couple fellow TiVo owners and I were discussing the future of television and the cost of getting the cable channels we wanted for a couple of shows.

We had the idea of moving to a business model where you can subscribe to specific shows rather than channels.

At $0.99/episode (picked arbitrarily, but based on iTunes model), my fiancee would pay about $3.96/month while I would pay closer to $31.68/month for my viewing habits.

Maybe have pilot episodes available for free or for a lesser charge.

Anyway… that was my $0.02.

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