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Broken as if the internet has no commercials? TV exists cause it's simple: streams of stories at the press of a button. No hours of effort to find good content

Broken as if the internet has no commercials? TV exists cause it's simple: streams of stories at the press of a button. No hours of effort to find good content among the trash. I don't think the commercials are the issue.

recursive 15y ago
> No hours of effort to find good content among the trash. I don't think the commercials are the issue. I'm not sure what TV you're watching, but good content is significantly harder for me to find on traditional TV than the internet.
derrida 15y ago
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mistercow 15y ago
> No hours of effort to find good content among the trash. Yes, because there's rarely any good content on in the first place. You're just forced to settle for something mediocre, or not watch TV.
tomjen3 15y ago
It doesn't take hours to find stuff on line that is worth watching. Just use Google: http://www.google.dk/search?aq=f&ix=hca&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=hurt+locker+torrent http://www.google.dk/search?aq=f&ix=hca&sourceid=chr... Or some similar search engine.
- zerostar07 15y ago
  I still think traditional TV is capitalizing on the lack of good (or overabudance of bad) recommendation engines online. Social recommendations are blurry, popularity is, well, a popularity contest and movie reviews are so subjective. Even with well-intented efforts like boxee you have (a) an anavoidable pile of juvenile nonsense and (b) too many options (and that's a problem). TV offers a simple, dumb stream of mediocre-but-curated programming. Maybe we should have that for online video too. (btw that illegal torrent u suggest is still going to take hours to download)
  - w1ntermute 15y ago
    > (btw that illegal torrent u suggest is still going to take hours to download) I think you need to double-check your math. I just found a Bluray rip of the Hurt Locker on a torrent site that is 3.78 GB. Using my 24 Mbps fiber connection ($55/month, in America), it would take: 3.78 GB * (1024 MB/GB) * (8 MB/Mb) * (1 s/24 Mb) * (1 min/60 s) = 21.5 mins Hardly the "hours" that you suggested. And considering that the ads for a typical movie will run for much longer than 21.5 mins, I'd say it's not that long at all.
    - zerostar07 15y ago
      out of curiosity are you getting the full 24Mbps when downloading torrents? Also, what about the illegal factor?
      - seanp2k2 15y ago
        Torrents are typically the fastest things on the web because you're pulling from so many sources; in effect, a peer to peer CDN cluster :) Also, there are plenty of fly-by-night sites that have full episodes of most shows that people care about. I won't link to any here, but just Google "watch full episode" and you'll see what I mean. >"Also, what about the illegal factor?" As long as gullible sheep continue to finance shows by paying to watch ads on cable, I'll continue to not waste my life watching ads or waiting for them to play what I want to watch. To hell with imaginary property.
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        zerostar07 15y ago
        To hell with imaginary property. Then i suppose you also give your work away and your house doesnt have windows or doors, and your life is not really yours alone (all property is imaginary, it's just a convention).
        15y ago
- randomdata 15y ago
  It really does take hours to find something worth watching if you don't already know what you want to watch. I do not watch much TV to begin with, but when I do, I will load up Netflix and see if anything catches my eye. Most times I'll spend 30 minutes looking for something and then simply give up and move on to something more interesting. Having access to even more content just makes the problem worse, not better. Sometimes I'll catch wind of good programming recommendations from others, but those sources are easily exhausted. The internet does a much better job. I can just turn up here and I'll probably find at least 50% of the links interesting at any given time. TV needs something like that.
  - cwe 15y ago
    > TV needs something like that. Seriously. Someone make a hacknews/reddit-style discovery system for TV. Channels become subreddits. If you finish item one, item two starts automatically.

recursive 15y ago

> No hours of effort to find good content among the trash. I don't think the commercials are the issue. I'm not sure what TV you're watching, but good content is significantly harder for me to find on traditional TV than the internet.

derrida 15y ago

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mistercow 15y ago

> No hours of effort to find good content among the trash. Yes, because there's rarely any good content on in the first place. You're just forced to settle for something mediocre, or not watch TV.

tomjen3 15y ago

It doesn't take hours to find stuff on line that is worth watching. Just use Google: http://www.google.dk/search?aq=f&ix=hca&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=hurt+locker+torrent http://www.google.dk/search?aq=f&ix=hca&sourceid=chr... Or some similar search engine.

zerostar07 15y ago
I still think traditional TV is capitalizing on the lack of good (or overabudance of bad) recommendation engines online. Social recommendations are blurry, popularity is, well, a popularity contest and movie reviews are so subjective. Even with well-intented efforts like boxee you have (a) an anavoidable pile of juvenile nonsense and (b) too many options (and that's a problem). TV offers a simple, dumb stream of mediocre-but-curated programming. Maybe we should have that for online video too. (btw that illegal torrent u suggest is still going to take hours to download)
- w1ntermute 15y ago
  > (btw that illegal torrent u suggest is still going to take hours to download) I think you need to double-check your math. I just found a Bluray rip of the Hurt Locker on a torrent site that is 3.78 GB. Using my 24 Mbps fiber connection ($55/month, in America), it would take: 3.78 GB * (1024 MB/GB) * (8 MB/Mb) * (1 s/24 Mb) * (1 min/60 s) = 21.5 mins Hardly the "hours" that you suggested. And considering that the ads for a typical movie will run for much longer than 21.5 mins, I'd say it's not that long at all.
  - zerostar07 15y ago
    out of curiosity are you getting the full 24Mbps when downloading torrents? Also, what about the illegal factor?
    - seanp2k2 15y ago
      Torrents are typically the fastest things on the web because you're pulling from so many sources; in effect, a peer to peer CDN cluster :) Also, there are plenty of fly-by-night sites that have full episodes of most shows that people care about. I won't link to any here, but just Google "watch full episode" and you'll see what I mean. >"Also, what about the illegal factor?" As long as gullible sheep continue to finance shows by paying to watch ads on cable, I'll continue to not waste my life watching ads or waiting for them to play what I want to watch. To hell with imaginary property.
      - deleted 15y ago
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      - zerostar07 15y ago
        To hell with imaginary property. Then i suppose you also give your work away and your house doesnt have windows or doors, and your life is not really yours alone (all property is imaginary, it's just a convention).
        15y ago
randomdata 15y ago
It really does take hours to find something worth watching if you don't already know what you want to watch. I do not watch much TV to begin with, but when I do, I will load up Netflix and see if anything catches my eye. Most times I'll spend 30 minutes looking for something and then simply give up and move on to something more interesting. Having access to even more content just makes the problem worse, not better. Sometimes I'll catch wind of good programming recommendations from others, but those sources are easily exhausted. The internet does a much better job. I can just turn up here and I'll probably find at least 50% of the links interesting at any given time. TV needs something like that.
- cwe 15y ago
  > TV needs something like that. Seriously. Someone make a hacknews/reddit-style discovery system for TV. Channels become subreddits. If you finish item one, item two starts automatically.