Thread: SD Broadcast TV to close by 2030?
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Old 01-12-2014, 12:18   #28
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Re: Broadcast TV to close by 2030?
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Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
On the other hand, on streaming services, you lose all the suspense in cliffhanger endings as you can just watch the next episode as soon as you want.

Netflix are riding high at the moment... In ten years, they could be as dead as those companies who relied on the video and dvd rental market to survive.

They will certainly need to radically improve their searching, and I don't mean just add more categories. It's too difficult, IMO, to find something decent on Netflix without being exposed to tons of crap. Personally, I want to push a button and be entertained when I get home. I don't want to be searching out one of a thousand TV shows I might like to watch.

And don't suggest suggestions. In my experience, it recommends episodes from 5 or 6 TV shows you watch. As soon as you venture outside those 5 or 6 shows, it starts recommending crap. And yes, I have spent a long time rating shows and films, so Netflix *should* have a fairly good idea of what I like to watch.
It's just that this is what you are used to, Stuart. My experience of just pushing the on switch and watching what is thrown at me, together with those incessant commercial breaks, is that this exposes me to the 'tons of crap' (as you so delicately put it) that you say you wish to avoid.

I am surprised really that you are so easily satisfied with watching one or two linear channels each night, but if that's what lights your fire, I'd make the most of it if I were you! And as for channel hopping, I do find that to be the most unsatisfactory experience - all those channels and nothing you want to watch!
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