The End of Broadcast TV as We Know It? 91
mattnyc99 writes "The DVR revolution is nothing that new—and neither is the Neilsen ratings company's adaptation to it. But Glenn Derene at Popular Mechanics argues that users have officially pushed us into a new era of television, wherein viewers now shape the way that networks make money, which means we'll start to see users control the way the networks choose programming. From the article: 'The systemic use of ad ratings as one of the standard metrics for assessing viewership is a sea change, and it's perhaps the sign that as an industry, broadcasters and advertisers are sailing into uncharted waters.'"
Product-Audience-Boredom (Score:2, Informative)
The good news for the dvr crowd is that there are a lot of programs across 24 hours 7 days a week and the 100s of channels. You can actually find enough shows to give yourself some entertaining tv a few nights a week.
What would really boost viewing quality would be the ability to cut out the hemorrhoid cream salesmen making the initial choice of which shows get produced. (Is it any wonder that these shows are often a pain in the
I think that the subscription series is the next step.
Re:Ads during programmes (Score:3, Informative)
I'm dreading the day they start running 719x575 "banners" over programmes...
Re:Part of the new wave (Score:4, Informative)
But less than half - perhaps much less than half - of American households have broadband service.
Subtract from that the number - the rather large number, I suspect - who don't have or don't want the "media center PC."
Those who don't want to watch TV on the small-screen PC monitor. Those who don't want to be drawn into the complexities of wired or wireless "slingboxes."
it won't change anything (Score:3, Informative)