Piracy is Good? Part Four

[nieless1]

This speech was only a couple of months after Blu-Ray was released to the masses and way before Netflix starting mailing movies and TV series. This guy really had no idea how precise he was in saying "television by mail" would be a big hit!

[gulllars]

Live distribution works nicely on hyperdistribution since 2009 :)

[exmerion]

Yea and now look what they did to hinder this. data plans.

[lostbuffalo]

I'd much rahter come home after work on thursday and find the next episode of fringe in my mailbox than wait to see it when it makes it to a torrent.

but eliminating the physical media is ecological

[Alexandra2488]

I was with him when he was talking about torrenting, and I thought "wow this guy is really hip for his age and knows about technology and where TV is heading." But then he started talking about DVDs, but the problem is..... PHYSICAL MEDIA IS DEAD! Why doesn't anyone understand that?

[mpesce]

@Alexandra2488 Given that this talk is five years old, your assertion about physical media being dead wasn't nearly as true at the time.

[ahriam]

Oooh yes it was, physical media has been dead since I got fibre 10 years ago.. !

[worldclasspervert]

@Alexandra2488

mpesce is right, but sitll your afirmation that physical media is dead is not entirely true as there are still limitations on what virtual media can accomplish, people want entertainment but people also want to live so simply telling them "fuck everything, go sit infront of your laptop, pc, etc. and watch" is not going to work, not unless you stop treating the virtual plane as a channel and start treating it as a full scale society.

[hinro]

@worldclasspervert Most current televisions have plug slots for vga and hdmi which you can hook a laptop or pc to quite easy.

[iwekks]

The more I watch this, the worse this sounds. It's less a way to make TV programs profitable again than to put things in people's faces whether they want it or not.

Corner bugs are annoying. 30-sec. ads could at least be entertaining (like in the 70s) so your attention stays on the whole screen, at any moment, for the whole hour.

Mailing DVDs has "this is junk" written all over it. Even the producers will regard their work as garbage and treat it as such because, hey, it's second class mail.

[piracyisevil]

he sorta reminds me of the joker

[DiarmuidC14]

that mail dvd thing if you had a dvd with like 20 gigabites of space you could send out a wekks tv in 1 dvd so it gets even cheaper

[checkzitout]

Commercial TV is already dead.

So is free to air digital.

...or at least they're on their last legs.

[supesm]

why is Ned Ryerson telling me about TV, I thought he sold insurance.

[mpesce]

Who the heck is Ned Ryerson?

[supesm]

From Groundhog Day... the actors name is Stephen Tobolowsky.

[fiatluxiam]

It's Brad Pitt duh...

[dauersurfer]

gazzalite751  maybe you fell asleep because you didnt listen to what he is telling or you just don't understand

[Amunication]

If the commercial networks start making some actual quality Australian programs I'd watch them, even through the ads.

[ABCruz2310]

TV by mail. Brilliant!

[mpesce]

It's been done. A year ago the TEN Network here in Australia dropped DVDs into the Saturday Sydney Morning Herald - they had episodes of some of their most popular shows, such as "House M.D."...

[charginmahlob]

Not brilliant at all, stupid, but its not his point..

[sciry]

Already watched all previous ones and this is starting to get interesting. Hopefully it ends up with new model for getting programs to viewers.

[evirus]

also you got those nostalga people, like someone interested on what, say a UK news station, covered on 9/11 so even with live shows there will always be someone to download old stuff