Media

The Missing

Yesterday I asked, how many of these films are available for purchase? Most, but not all.

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The Trouble with Being the Consumer

TiVo rocks Mark Pilgrim's world. Last night, while waiting for the Little One to fall asleep, we watched part of Twilight Zone, and then, when a moment presented itself, I moved over to The West Wing. The dialogue on West Wing is no contest for a baby crying in your ear, even with the volume turned WAY UP. I suppose a VCR would have worked to timeshift the show to some time more **&^#$(@ convenient, but we have DirecTV. One of the downsides of that is the inability to record one thing while watching another (depending on what kind of dish you own). Of the 168 hours in the week, we have, if we're lucky, 14 to spend on watching television. Of the 84,000 hours worth of television that we could watch, there are maybe three or four that we want to watch. Does anybody in the industry notice the problem here?

Assume that there are 10 minutes of advertisements for each half-hour of fluff. We might potentially see 280 minutes of advertising, but we're more likely to see 60 — assuming we only watch advertising-supported fluff, which we don't. Not only is the advertiser not getting their money's worth, but we're wasting an hour that we'll never see again.

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