Netflix, et al are ruining the way we watch TV

If your life's big moments are memories shared around a TV anticipating a show then its time to start reevaluating your priorities.

TV is ruining how we used to watch TV. As can be evidenced here, people are very tired of having to wade through 22 minutes of advertising per hour on network television. Cable televisions has adopted the same ratio.

I can tolerate the shows intros prior to each episode on Netflix. Oddly enough, If I watch Archer on Netflix through my Kindle Fire, it automatically starts the next episode unless I stop it, taking me through 3 episodes non-stop. Of course, with Archer, the intro is after the first couple minutes of comedy.

Network TV, in its current iteration, does suck. Netflix, Amazon Instant Video and other services give us options so it doesn't have to suck as much. I'm looking forward (or backward, depending on how you look at it) to the day when "un"-reality TV shows are no longer a prime source of entertainment.

The Kardashians, Paris and Nicole, Dog and Beth, and a host of others can take a flying leap through a rolling doughnut for all I care. Cops was all right for the first few seasons, but even that gets old. I'd rather watch Match Game reruns over those folks.

If it wasn't for sports, I would watch all my shows on Netflix.

Netflx showed the Super Bowl a week before Fox aired it.

Huh? That's a pretty serious conspiracy theory.

It's horrible!. .Before you know it we'll be back to discussing BOOKS!. . (oh the humanity). .

Only if we all wait until it's out in paperback, and then read it all as one nation (apparently).

i personally think it's making things better...

I don't watch a lot of TV. It's very very very low on my priority list.

And most of the shows I do/would watch are on when i'm at the gym, or various after work activities.

Netflix etc, allows me to watch those shows regardless of whether I missed them when they were on primetime...

We don't need TV to bond as a family. We have the gym to do that.

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Netflix, Hulu, etc. are eventually going to make cable and satellite TV subscriptions obsolete. For under $20 a month, people can pretty much watch what they want, whereas packages by cable and satellite companies "include" a mass array of channels many could care less about, but have to pay higher prices to include the channels they want in that package. If not for live sports events, TV would have gone out a year ago IMO. It's gonna happen though. Pro sports will sell their services to anyone who wants to buy them and if watching live sports events costs an extra $10 a month on Netflix, then people will ditch their TV services.
Wish I would have invested in Netflix when it started.

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I don't do streaming except during the summer when there's nothing but reruns. Does that count?

If it wasn't for sports, I would watch all my shows on Netflix.

Was just thinking that this morning but then remembered I have at bat for my baseball games, a bar for football games and sports center at the gym for all other highlights.

Netflix, Hulu, etc. are eventually going to make cable and satellite TV subscriptions obsolete. For under $20 a month, people can pretty much watch what they want, whereas packages by cable and satellite companies "include" a mass array of channels many could care less about, but have to pay higher prices to include the channels they want in that package. If not for live sports events, TV would have gone out a year ago IMO. It's gonna happen though. Pro sports will sell their services to anyone who wants to buy them and if watching live sports events costs an extra $10 a month on Netflix, then people will ditch their TV services.
Wish I would have invested in Netflix when it started.

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And this is the reason why cable companies fought the FCC to allow them to block or limit data rates to certain sites. Pay me more or I will limit your download speeds to Netflix.

NFL will cost a little bit more that $10 a month. :sad:

It's horrible!. .Before you know it we'll be back to discussing BOOKS!. . (oh the humanity). .

I discuss books all the time. SHAMEFUL

I have a book club for that. It is hard to discuss books around the water cooler at work.

It's horrible!. .Before you know it we'll be back to discussing BOOKS!. . (oh the humanity). .

I still do this. I love reading, lol

This may make me sound old but the VCR started it.

But you still had to wait to for the show to air. You weren't ahead of everyone. You were probably behind.

Now, someone could be finished with the entire 2nd season of House of Cards while others may just be starting. They can't talk about it because it may spoil it for someone.

But you're referencing a Netflix created show. Most shows you still have to wait to air (Walking Dead, Game of Thrones).. and for them to be on Netflix, they need to be out on DVD. You can't bunch those into the same category as House of Cards or Orange is the New Black.. those are their own monsters. I do think that Netflix should air those sequentially to build a bit of suspense between episodes, but it's their product. they can release it as they like. Better reason for you to invite all your friends over for a 3 hour block of watching!

This may make me sound old but the VCR started it.

But you still had to wait to for the show to air. You weren't ahead of everyone. You were probably behind.

Now, someone could be finished with the entire 2nd season of House of Cards while others may just be starting. They can't talk about it because it may spoil it for someone.

But you're referencing a Netflix created show. Most shows you still have to wait to air (Walking Dead, Game of Thrones).. and for them to be on Netflix, they need to be out on DVD. You can't bunch those into the same category as House of Cards or Orange is the New Black.. those are their own monsters. I do think that Netflix should air those sequentially to build a bit of suspense between episodes, but it's their product. they can release it as they like. Better reason for you to invite all your friends over for a 3 hour block of watching!

Let me just tell you about Game of Thrones and spoilers. There are these BOOKS that give everything away!

True story.

When we watched M*A*S*H and "Who shot JR" network television was averaging something like 12-13 minutes per hour of commercials.

Now network TV averages something like, what, 20-22 minute per hour?

Netflix isn't ruining network TV--network TV is ruining itself.

Yeah! Totally agree!