Comments on: Apple is a winner in the Aereo online TV ruling, for now

By: RePlay

RePlay — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:08:07 +0000

Does that also get you out of the TV tax?

By: tbone

tbone — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:47:18 +0000

If there ever were a post-TV world, everyone would be smarter and would awake from the stupefying slumber to take back our hijacked society from a few rich assholes.

By: pjs_boston

pjs_boston — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:51:13 +0000

A la carte TV is a great idea. It will force studios and production houses to focus on quality over quantity, the way Steve Jobs, eh God, intended…

By: CaptainWhizz

CaptainWhizz — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:18:14 +0000

In the UK we have tvcatchup.com that just rebroadcasts all of the free tv. It costs nothing and starts with one advert and that’s it. The BBC et al took them to court but nothing became of it. It works on iPhones, iPads and laptops and is the reason that I no longer possess a TV. This is how it will work in a post-TV world.

By: mrreeee

mrreeee — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 06:57:17 +0000

No, you just turn the gogglebox OFF.

By: Cliff Hanger

Cliff Hanger — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:28:07 +0000

Why should I subsidize your ‘niche’ shows?

By: rp2010

rp2010 — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:23:48 +0000

A win for Aereo is a win for everyone, including broadcasters themselves. Its madness the way they think they can hold on to their pre-internet dominance.

By: FruitApe

FruitApe — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:10:36 +0000

The cool niche programs continue if enough people watch them. Supply and demand. You may have to pay more for your niche program, but the joy of not having DWTS surely outweighs that

By: Ansel

Ansel — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:00:46 +0000

Simple reason, silly rabbit ……..

If they streamed you wouldn’t need both an internet service and tv ….. All one would need is high speed net service …..

Look at an AT&T bill ….. Three items …..
Phone
Internet
TV

Does this make sense if TV was streamed there would be no more TV service to pay for?

And then you still have the bandwidth issue streaming high speed?

Someone, someday will break it down and we will gain productively so it will be a good thing when it happens, and it will happen!

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:25:42 +0000

Well stated progressiveagentprovocateur!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:25:40 +0000

The idea that broadcast television companies would be irreparably harmed by this is simply amazing. They are broadcasting these shows WITH commercials. This is how their business started originally. Anything that increases their audience should be welcomed. What I don’t understand is why they don’t stream their full broadcast including commercials already.

By: progressiveagentprovocateur

progressiveagentprovocateur — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:49:17 +0000

No, in an a la carte world the prices will change, but what you spend will probably remain constant.

Currently a chunk of the cable bill gets handed over to the TV cartel that shovels unending piles of shit onto our TV schedules each year. The Cable cartel makes sure you pay tribute to all to get the little you want.

I want a free market in TV.

I will gladly pay for what I watch, more if it is commercial free. I do not wish to continue to subsidize the nepotistic cabal of bullshit TV in America has become.

“This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful.”
Edward R Murrow.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:44:19 +0000

The cool nichie shows would be produced and sold at a price the market will bear. If the actors realy feel strongly about them then they will work for an amount that the market will bear not the inflated amounts they get now subsidized by the extortion we pay for all you can eat crap tv.

By: bananamonkey

bananamonkey — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:11:18 +0000

like and dislike this one. but what happens to all the cool niche channels if people choose not to subscribe? do we end up forced watching jersey shore and DWTS. UGH.