On 3 January 2014 00:53, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > This change will only affect people who a) do not have cable b) do not > have OTA access c) do have internet and internet devices and d) can not > afford or do not want to pay two bucks to watch a show immediately. I > suspect we have just defined a rather small segment of the market >
Your A and B are way too narrow for the people who are being impacted by this change. A should also include people who get their cable through communal setups like apartment buildings and dorms and thus don't have individual logins with their cable provider. B should also include people who don't have a DVR/VCR and can't guarantee that they will be in front of a TV tuned to ABC for an uninterrupted 30-60 minutes at a specific time and day of the week because they live with other people who might be watching a different channel, work in shiftwork or service-industry jobs with variable hours, are caring for small children, or for whatever other reason. Add those two and you're talking about a pretty large fraction of the under-35 set that I know plus or minus the willingness to wait a week. We see cable as too expensive to be worth it unless there's some programming on there that we really must have access to, particularly when so much is available via streaming and we're paying substantial amounts of money for high-speed internet and smartphone data service. I think that most of the people who only stream will be willing to be wait a week, but those that won't are going to see this as a middle finger to them, and I'm not sure that they're entirely wrong in that assessment. The other thing that seems particularly galling to me about a delay of precisely a week is that it also means that it's impossible to catch up with a serialized show if you miss an episode and can't or won't pay, regardless of whether you're a regular viewer of streaming TV or not. With the number of those sorts of shows that ABC airs, I feel like that's going to end up hurting them in the end if only in viewer goodwill. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- -- 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.
