I like Netflix because I can get entire seasons of shows that I can't be bothered to pay extra money to get on premium channels. For the most parat, I find that premium channels don't really have anything worth watching.
The exception is HBO.
HBO has Band of Brothers (which you can netflix now)
It had the Sopranos (Netflix!)
Deadwood.
And now,
True Blood.
I want to watch True Blood. I was told True Blood would be available on Itunes shortly after each episode aired. Only now, it seems that information is incorrect. True Blood will only be available after the entire series has aired.
So I hate HBO.
And to be fair, I hate cable television in general. There's so few really good shows worth watching, but to watch them, you have to pay for a lot of crap television. There's no a la carte packages, which, frankly, in today's age of media gluttony, really, there should be.
So I hate HBO because it wants to make money and the only way to make money for its programming is to, apparently, put one or two really good shows on, and then expect people to pay extra money and give them one or two good shows with twenty more crappy shows.
Now, Itunes lets you download shows immediately. Sci-Fi offers some shows on Itunes right after airing. Netflix lets you download some videos and shows immediately. But, not HBO shows. No, I have to wait til the series ends, or I can get HBO.
Is one show worth an HBO subscription fee?
Nope.
I can barely justify regular cable.
I think we ought to start a media revolution. Everyone should cancel their premium channel subscriptions and extended cable plans and demand a la carte service.
Lets be done with crappy televison! Lets demand only good shows! Lets make those shows downloadable immediately, because lets face it, that's where the future is going to be. Eventually, these industry giants will collapse under the weight of all their crap and there will only be shows that people actually want to view, all downloaded on itunes, with no cable bills...
Lets all hate HBO, and bring the future that much closer!
Dang it!
4 comments:
True Blood resembles Heroes at first glance (just rented the first episode from Blockbuster), though it still feels mostly original... for some reason this show makes me want to eat Cajun food and drink cheap beer
It really does. It makes you look at your local small town bar in an entirely different way.
I never look at channels to pay for.
We are so fortunate to live in a good peasant vision area (arial TV) we are in canada and get a couple more years before the digital wave overtakes us but i'd rather pay once for an antenna and get 4-5 good channels that are relavent and rent movies or get them from the library for FREE! my library is awsome, they have huge selections of dvds, movies and TV shows - entire seasons. SWEET
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