I consider myself sort of a regular guy who wants the freedom to chose media (for lack of a better term) "My way".
right now I get my television via DirecTV. For the most part it give me what I want. Actually, it gives me more than I want, but less that what I want. I have to bow to the will of the FCC and the advertisers to get even some of what I want.
I'm a child of the DVR generation. First it was the VCR, then MS Ultimate TV, now directivo.
I sorta get what I want, but not completely.
I rarely "watch" tv anymore live. I record it on my TIVO and then watch it at my leisure.
Lets talk my viewing habits. Some shows I'll watch every week. Some shows I record the whole season and then watch them when the seasons over in one sitting.
I also watch shows that aren't available here. Dr Who is a good example. It would probably get to where I can see the show in america sometime in 2008 if ever. I watched them within an hour after they play on the BBS in England this year.
I dl them via bittorrent, burn the data onto a CD and watch them via my $40 Norcent DVD player that plays DIVX natively.
What do I really want? Its all about content.
What I'd really like is to get rid of Directv, cable, and off the air altogether.
My dream system is an IPTV box that can use as much disk space as I can buy on my home network, that scans the internet for content via keywords and my likes (what I watch, what I don't watch) and presents them to me in a format something like tivo does now.
I want a very fast (fiber optic?) pipe to my place that I can use however I want to download and store content that I might want to watch
If the content costs something, then I should see that, but again, it shouldn't cost alot cause millions of people are probably watching world wide. Its sorta like how I think we should pay for songs. I like an artists song, I buy it. I don't pay $15 for a cd of songs that I don't like to get one song, so that an artist can get 15 cents from a money hungry record/media company. I'd rather pay the 15 cents directly to the artist/creator. Same thing for my media/tv buys. I pay $100+ to Directv every month and probably use 1/100 of the programming they have. So why should I pay them 100 times what I use?
I want it "my way". I want it over fast pipes. I don't want to wait years for it to make it across the pond, or on DVD's that I have to buy for different regions and buy special players just so I can watch it. I don't want to have to pirate it, not because I can't pay for it, but because I can't get it because its not available because of my location at any price.I don't want "ghost logos" over my content. I don't want commercials in the middle of my content. If its free I'll watch the commerical, but not if it interrupts the flow of the program. I want programs that may not get the ratings, but hey if I'm paying for it, who the heck cares. If I'll pay for it then I'll bet other people will too. I can name some shows that people would pay for to continue them. "Dead Like Me", "Carnivale", "Wonderfalls", "Joan of Arcadia". How wonderful a world it would be if a show didn't have to worry about advertisers, ratings, censors, FCC. All they would really have to worry about was if their show was good and if people wanted to watch it and if they would pay something for it.
Note to Media peole: Get the point!
My dilemma reminds me of the movie "Short Circuit" when the robot is becoming aware and learning... It plantively whines " Need more Input". Well folks, my whine is "Need more content". Are you media people listening?
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