You know I don't mind paying for the specific programming I want to watch. Longstar and others have commented on how they can watch TV for "free" on cable... well unless you are stealing cable, the programming you are watching isn't free. I long for a day when I can cancel cable and simply download just the programs I want to watch. It would be great if the producers of content went further and allowed me to pre-purchase a season of a show and then have it automatically pushed to my console as new episodes became available. I imagine if shows could be proe-purchased in this way, that more shows that get cancelled on traditional TV would have much longer runs. This would make me much happier due to the fact that just when I start enjoying a series it seems that "Big Brother Network Exec" decides it isn't selling enough Coke or Nike and axes it. Kudos to Microsoft for going this route, now let's get the program producers on board and maybe we get some Youtube style programming too!
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Farris @ Nov 7th 2006 1:13AM
"..for free on cable..." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, but seriously, what?
GhostRiderTGAC @ Nov 8th 2006 5:38PM
You know I don't mind paying for the specific programming I want to watch. Longstar and others have commented on how they can watch TV for "free" on cable... well unless you are stealing cable, the programming you are watching isn't free. I long for a day when I can cancel cable and simply download just the programs I want to watch. It would be great if the producers of content went further and allowed me to pre-purchase a season of a show and then have it automatically pushed to my console as new episodes became available.
I imagine if shows could be proe-purchased in this way, that more shows that get cancelled on traditional TV would have much longer runs. This would make me much happier due to the fact that just when I start enjoying a series it seems that "Big Brother Network Exec" decides it isn't selling enough Coke or Nike and axes it.
Kudos to Microsoft for going this route, now let's get the program producers on board and maybe we get some Youtube style programming too!