On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:40 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "Five hundred channels and nothing to watch, unless of course you're >> into pawnshops, weddings, cupcakes or guys rummaging through attics, >> barns or storage units." >> >> >> http://adage.com/article/mediaworks/500-channels-means-19-shows-pawnshops/229153/ > > I don't watch a single show in any of the popular genre's they cite (except > I guess Dirty Jobs, but I have not watched an episode of that in a couple of > years at least). I never find myself saying "500 channels and nothing to > watch". Most of the time I have very little idea what channel any show I am > watching is on (brought home to me the other day when, trying to navigate > the new-to-us On Demand feature, my wife, son and I for the life of us could > not remember what network a particular show we wanted to watch was on). > > Part of this is that I watch a lot of sports; part is our reliance on the > DVR, and part is the supplement of our TV watching with Netflix, all of > which means I now seem always to have more content that I have identified as > something I would like to watch than I have time to watch it in.
We are reaching the boundary where channel surfing gives way to 'on demand.' I was visiting a friend, resting post-surgery, a few months ago and he took his remote, flicked through channels, and said, "Let's see if we can find something to watch," and I asked him why we shouldn't just go to the On Demand menu and look for shows there. It never occurred to him and I had no patience for idle surfing. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
