To the first criticism - Internet TV is somewhat like using a tivo or similar. It removes the time constraints attached to broadcast and cable TV. Internet TV h

To the first criticism - Internet TV is somewhat like using a tivo or similar. It removes the time constraints attached to broadcast and cable TV. Internet TV has the additional advantage of being pre-loaded with content, no planning ahead is necessary. To the second criticism - Broadcast and cable TV used to be accompanied by programming schedules published in local newspapers. Additionally, TV Guide was a real magazine with programming schedules that people paid real money for. People made effort and spent money to be able to quietly peruse and discover what to watch. These two responses are entirely correlated. The ability to quietly browse and discover content is the best thing internet TV has going for it. Netflix's abandonment of this concept has driven me back to the TV Guide model. I make my viewing choices off of Netflix, and never open Netflix until I know exactly where I'm going, and only when I know that there are no other less intrusive options. Look at it this way - Think about movie theater previews, and how much people complain about them. Effectiveness of those previews aside, imagine what that would look like if the preview was for the movie they actually went to see.