What I want to see is this: suppose, instead of the current way we watch TV, you could, say on Sunday night, pick any of the new episodes that would air for the whole upcoming week, and download them and watch them on your time. If you wanted to watch ER on Sunday, you could. If you wanted to watch Smallville and Survior (which air at the same time) you wouldn't have to choose which one, you could watch them both.
I, personally, really hate the way the networks re-arrange the schedules. Sometimes they really kill good shows by moving them to a different time slot every couple of weeks, or just putting them on at an inconvenient time. I'd like to see what would happen to ratings if time slots were not a factor, if we could each choose our own unique time that we would watch a show, maybe even different for different weeks. Wouldn't that be interesting?
Hey,
I love the fact that we are increasingly able to watch TV on demand over the Internet.
Tom mentioned the It Crowd from Chanel 4 the other day (great show, funny) - but the UK has other shows online too. The Mighty Boosh, Nighty Night and others from the BBC are finding premieres on streaming videos online.
The BBC is developing the iMP player - to download and play Free TV shows up to 1 week after they air, and on January 10th, Sky TV (Fox's sister network in the UK) launched SkyByBroadband - a service that lets you download and watch movies from a library of 200,for free.
SkyByBroadband just requires you to already be a Sky TV subscriber.
With the success of iTunes TV shows, it once again TV makers are being shown the way forward. Allow cheap or free easy access to your shows, and people will come in their droves.
Sadly we are still in a situation where the only way for UK fans of shows like LOST are able to see the latest series are either to wait a year, for Chanel 4 to show it, or to download it from the newsgroups or Bit Torrent.
It totally rocks that we are at the start of a revolution!!

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