On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Nordstroms isn't offering merchandise for sale one day only, only to tell > you you have to wait a week to buy it if you don't make it to the stores by > closing time on that day. > > It is disincentivizing honest streaming of their programing. I am sick to > death of the same two ads that run on shows I watch on CBS.com, but CBS > makes programing available on its website either same day or the next day, > and I support that model. Recently, Fox has been the only major hold-out of > that basic concept of allowing viewers to have the choice immediately. We > do, as you know, exist in a world governed by instant gratification, like > it or not. > > We've all seen the trends of people dropping cable in favor of watching > shows via wifi. ABC thinks they can slow that trend (or reverse it) and > draw viewers back to the TV? That's laughable. Networks haven't been able > to devise a business model that allows them to profit from streaming video > the way they generate profit from over-the-air ad sales, but rather than > face that reality and try something new, they want to pull their programing > back into its over-the-air shell in the futile hope viewers will crawl in > with them. It is incredibly naive. (SNIP) > But wait. You (and anyone else) can purchase ABC's content the exact same day that airs (via i-tunes). All they are doing is making you wait one week to get it for free. The analogy would be bashing Nordstroms because they make you pay for a sweater the first week it is in their store, but they give it away for free if you wait a week. But that would be odd, wouldn't it? I am interested in how you define the term "honest streaming" of programing. Does this only mean "free streaming"? I thought the argument here was about a la carte, and those in favor of that model have won. If you want to see episodes of Castle the day they air, but nothing else on ABC, you can just purchase those on i-tunes; or you can wait a week and watch it for free. None of this seems unreasonable to me. It does seem unreasonable to say "Give us your content for free or we will steal it". -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
