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For those of you who have been living under the rock, there is a TV revolution going on. Let me get this out of they way first... yes I do "borrow" TV shows off the net. Let me tell you what... I'm really not sorry... the amount of money corporations are making off us is insane... and there are no limits every year it's more and more and it will never end, unless we do something about it. I agree people need to get paid, but in my opinion entertainers get paid way too much, yes they do entertain millions of people but that's just because the way the system is setup. There is plenty actors out there who would be happy to work for much less money. I feel like I'm getting off topic here, all I'm trying to say is that we pay way too much for entertainment.
I recently moved and just got cable installed today, it's costing me $50 a month... what am I paying for? well basically 20 minutes of commercials per hour and other promotions within the actual shows.
Why did I get cable?
Well, I love basketball and need to watch it live and shows like HGTV (my GF ;) )haven't fully made it torrents yet. Ahh, Torrents... one of the most amazing inventions since probably the internet revolution. See pirating has always been there... it's been there in the early 90s when you could download games off BBSs and it's been there when you could download tiny files called MP3s through MIRC way before Napster. It's just now though that the general public is getting their hands on the nice and easy to use tools to let them "borrow" content off the net.
The future Now?
In a way the future is here... here is a perfect example.. couple of weeks ago when I still had analog cable the new Heroes episode stared airing but I couldn't watch it right then. So I turned on my Windows Media Center in Vista to record the show right off cable... about an hour and a half later I came back and started watching it... picture quality wasn't great (analog cable) plus all the commercials were kind of annoying... meanwhile uTorrent blip appeared which stated that the new episode of Heroes just started downloading... so I stopped watching the crappy cable copy... waited about 20 mins and I had the same episode on my computer. Here is a little comparison.
Cable
Torrent
See, most people aren't at this level yet but it's easy enough to setup that all the shows you watch you have uTorrent watch for in the RSS feeds and you've got great quality content without wasting time on commercials or being glued to the tv. Now yes there are other solutions like PVRs but you still have to pay the big bucks for content you mostly don't watch... and what you do you have to be inconvenienced by commercials.
Movie are another big area where most of the bandwidth is being used up by... do you know why? Shitty Hollywood movies. Coming from a semi-film education I have an idea what goes on behind the scenes with script writing. Hollywood has this very child like behavior of banging it head against a wall until after they've totally killed any given genre and then they move on to the next one. In the 80s it was the Horrors, now it's the comic book heroes... just think of how many truly great movies have come out in the past few years... not many... why was The Matrix so popular? It was different... there are so many great stories out there waiting to be told but nobody gives those stories a chance...instead they go and make American Pie 4... this is why I among thousands of other people on the net will not go and spend tons of money on cookie cutter movies for $15 a movie.
Anyway that's one big rant off to bed now. Have a great night.
