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Originally Posted by spiderplant
No. Two reasons...
1) People like to watch things live
2) Some people would rather be spoonfed. Choosing what to watch is too much like hard work
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I think (and hope) that you're right. There's something collective and social in many people watching the same programme at the same time.
Whilst I find it useful (and do use) VOD, there's something cold and clinical about it. The best anallergy as to what i'm getting at is that I think that people would rather listen to a live DJ led show, rather than listen to an automated radio station where the content is chosen by a computer- even if the actual tracks played were identical!
There was something to be said for the days when any major film or new drama was shown and the day after most, if not everybody, at work had seen it and were discussing it.
Perhaps internet forums now fill this gap??