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I think there are a few issues at hand when it comes to streaming services. 1. choice paralysis. There are simply too many options provided to you. One of the

I think there are a few issues at hand when it comes to streaming services. 1. choice paralysis. There are simply too many options provided to you. One of the reasons I like watching TV over streaming is that whatever on is on. I don't have to "choose" a specific show, just a channel that will play things I generally like. 2. We've seen most of the content we want to see. There is plenty of great stuff on Netflix, but I have watched everything I am familiar with. The Office is great, and I watch it all the time. But I have seen that entire series at least 30 times. I'll flip through Netflix for about 20 minutes just to end up putting on the Office. 3. Content wasn't good before, and it's not great now. If you go watch cable, even with HBO/Starz/Sho during the day it's just movies that have been in theaters. Later in the day they might play their shows like Shameless, GoT, etc. But a bulk of the day is just the same "new" movie on repeat for a month. Netflix has all the same movies for the most part. You watch the movie once, and you're done. Every channel has more bad shows than good ones. Netflix has plenty of great original content, and plenty of bad content. So, it's just the same thing, we just get bored of it because it's on demand and we can have that bad content whenever we want, and we burn out the good content because it's on repeat for a while. So, I agree. I don't think content is any better or worse than what we got before streaming. Instead we just get a lot more of it, with a wide range of quality, and we can choose when and how often we watch it. So content simply doesn't last us as long as it used to.

FooHentai 8y ago
>One of the reasons I like watching TV over streaming is that whatever on is on. I don't have to "choose" a specific show, just a channel that will play things I generally like. I've thought for years that YouTube and Netflix could trivially produce channels of lightly-curated content drawing on their existing catalogs. The only solid reason I could come up with for why they haven't is in some kind of attempt to break away from the paradigm of broadcast TV. Maybe there's a separate argument that it would somehow pollute their metric-gathering efforts. But the utility of channels like that is still there for the reason you mentioned - The (very real, very strong) barrier of choice paralysis is overcome. I hypothesize that having those channels would improve the subscriber retention rates for a variety of reasons. Some YouTube channels (e.g. funhaus) are already solving this themselves by establishing live streams that just cycle their back-catalog of content.

FooHentai 8y ago

>One of the reasons I like watching TV over streaming is that whatever on is on. I don't have to "choose" a specific show, just a channel that will play things I generally like. I've thought for years that YouTube and Netflix could trivially produce channels of lightly-curated content drawing on their existing catalogs. The only solid reason I could come up with for why they haven't is in some kind of attempt to break away from the paradigm of broadcast TV. Maybe there's a separate argument that it would somehow pollute their metric-gathering efforts. But the utility of channels like that is still there for the reason you mentioned - The (very real, very strong) barrier of choice paralysis is overcome. I hypothesize that having those channels would improve the subscriber retention rates for a variety of reasons. Some YouTube channels (e.g. funhaus) are already solving this themselves by establishing live streams that just cycle their back-catalog of content.