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Zeus posted...

Not all shit is created equal. I will probably never watch the Sopranos, The Wire, or Oz. I might never see Breaking Bad or Six Feet Under. But if it's a superhero or horror show, I'm probably going to check it out at some point or another.

Pretty sure PO and myself can still remember a time when TV's had antennas, and it was ABC, NBC, and CBS. Oh yeah, and 2 PBS channels. It was a big deal in the NY tri-state when Fox and WPIX11 and whatever channel 9 was before it became UPN back in the day started broadcasting.

Cable hadn't been fully adopted yet, and that was 36 channels with a wired remote, 3 rows of 12 channels with individual buttons and lever on a dial that flipped between rows. There was always terrestrial radio and books, but 40 years later we've gone from having your ass on the sofa at a specific time to catch one of 3 shows in a time slot to many hundreds of channels on cable and well over a dozen streaming services of note, plus VOD services. There aren't enough hours in a day to watch the things worth watching, let alone everyone's guilty pleasure.

I have a Kindle. I have a laptop I mostly game on. I have a Chromebook hooked up to a projector for streaming shows and movies, and I still have a massive backlog on all 3 with new shit thrown on the pile weekly.

Even if they remade the classic "Time Enough at Last" episode of Twilight Zone, the big finish would ring hollow because there wouldn't be enough time to catch up on everything in modern media. I have to wonder how the business model is sustainable because I find it hard to believe there's enough eyeballs on most of it.

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