Official All Things TV Thread
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Netflix does appear to be doing an excellent job.
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Just about to finish Being Human.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@lance said:
Just about to finish Being Human.
What do you intend to be after this?
lol. That's good. If I would have to choose, I guess a Vampire would be next on my checklist, then maybe a ghost. I'm not a fan of werewolves.
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@coliver said:
I'm a huge fan of the new Netflix shows. The remake of House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Netflix is really doing a great job finding great shows. Even Peaky Blinders isn't all that bad. I also like shows in the vein of Burn Notice or more serious spy thrillers. Although those are few and far between lately.
OitNB! OMG!
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I don't watch TV
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@Joyfano said:
I don't watch TV
Weirdo...
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@Joyfano said:
I don't watch TV
Weirdo...
lols seriously we don't have TV in our apartment haha
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@Joyfano said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@Joyfano said:
I don't watch TV
Weirdo...
lols seriously we don't have TV in our apartment haha
Torrents are your friend...
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@Joyfano said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@Joyfano said:
I don't watch TV
Weirdo...
lols seriously we don't have TV in our apartment haha
Torrents are your friend...
They have like a 128Kb/s connection. She can barely download text. Torrenting won't get her anything.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@Joyfano said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@Joyfano said:
I don't watch TV
Weirdo...
lols seriously we don't have TV in our apartment haha
Torrents are your friend...
They have like a 128Kb/s connection. She can barely download text. Torrenting won't get her anything.
haha True.. I can't do anything with that connection
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@Joyfano said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@Joyfano said:
I don't watch TV
Weirdo...
lols seriously we don't have TV in our apartment haha
Torrents are your friend...
They have like a 128Kb/s connection. She can barely download text. Torrenting won't get her anything.
Ok, that's just painful...
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I'm partial to Dr. Who.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@Joyfano said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@Joyfano said:
I don't watch TV
Weirdo...
lols seriously we don't have TV in our apartment haha
Torrents are your friend...
And that's illegal for copyrighted content. It makes those that pay, pay more due to loss of sales. Volume of sales decreases the price.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
And that's illegal for copyrighted content. It makes those that pay, pay more due to loss of sales. Volume of sales decreases the price.
No, it's the opposite. Pirating reduces demand for paid content and lower demand lowers prices and reduces profits for the content providers. Look how the cost of CDs has plummeted since Napster was invented. Pirating largely influences the profits going into fat executives, not the price you and I pay. Think of BitTorrent as a competitor to Amazon and Napster - competition lowers prices, it doesn't increase them.
In economics terms, it's simple supply and demand.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
And that's illegal for copyrighted content. It makes those that pay, pay more due to loss of sales. Volume of sales decreases the price.
No, it's the opposite. Pirating reduces demand for paid content and lower demand lowers prices and reduces profits for the content providers. Look how the cost of CDs has plummeted since Napster was invented. Pirating largely influences the profits going into fat executives, not the price you and I pay. Think of BitTorrent as a competitor to Amazon and Napster - competition lowers prices, it doesn't increase them.
In economics terms, it's simple supply and demand.
That might be something Pirate's say to justify their actions. But, prices of Video and Film is not based on demand in anyway. We have meetings at the begging of productions, to say what all are needs are. a Budget is then made, and from that budget a price to charge is set. lower demand will not lower the price. It will cause it to stop being producer and no further licenses are released. In the case of a theater run, the run will be cut very short and the cryptokeys for the harddrives the theater's are using will be disabled as they have to use a webside to enable the harddrive for each and every showing.
Demand doesn't affect price, budget does. When a budget is met the price will generally be lowered. Now Amazon, Walmart etc might lower the prices of their renaming physical copies or license, once discounted if their reseller agreement allows. But in the video world things are cancelled with low demand.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
And that's illegal for copyrighted content. It makes those that pay, pay more due to loss of sales. Volume of sales decreases the price.
No, it's the opposite. Pirating reduces demand for paid content and lower demand lowers prices and reduces profits for the content providers. Look how the cost of CDs has plummeted since Napster was invented. Pirating largely influences the profits going into fat executives, not the price you and I pay. Think of BitTorrent as a competitor to Amazon and Napster - competition lowers prices, it doesn't increase them.
In economics terms, it's simple supply and demand.
While I agree with this, it doesn't change the fact that torrenting, to download copyrighted media, is illegal in most nations. Copyrighting is not a free market/supply and demand idea. Instead it creates a limited monopoly for the terms of the copyright, or patent. Originally it was to protect and encourage innovation... not really sure that it still does that though.
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@coliver said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
And that's illegal for copyrighted content. It makes those that pay, pay more due to loss of sales. Volume of sales decreases the price.
No, it's the opposite. Pirating reduces demand for paid content and lower demand lowers prices and reduces profits for the content providers. Look how the cost of CDs has plummeted since Napster was invented. Pirating largely influences the profits going into fat executives, not the price you and I pay. Think of BitTorrent as a competitor to Amazon and Napster - competition lowers prices, it doesn't increase them.
In economics terms, it's simple supply and demand.
While I agree with this, it doesn't change the fact that torrenting, to download copyrighted media, is illegal in most nations. Copyrighting is not a free market/supply and demand idea. Instead it creates a limited monopoly for the terms of the copyright, or patent. Originally it was to protect and encourage innovation... not really sure that it still does that though.
My philosophy is that if it's been on TV and I could have recorded it and converted it to a digital file, how is that any different?
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
And that's illegal for copyrighted content. It makes those that pay, pay more due to loss of sales. Volume of sales decreases the price.
No, it's the opposite. Pirating reduces demand for paid content and lower demand lowers prices and reduces profits for the content providers. Look how the cost of CDs has plummeted since Napster was invented. Pirating largely influences the profits going into fat executives, not the price you and I pay. Think of BitTorrent as a competitor to Amazon and Napster - competition lowers prices, it doesn't increase them.
In economics terms, it's simple supply and demand.
While I agree with this, it doesn't change the fact that torrenting, to download copyrighted media, is illegal in most nations. Copyrighting is not a free market/supply and demand idea. Instead it creates a limited monopoly for the terms of the copyright, or patent. Originally it was to protect and encourage innovation... not really sure that it still does that though.
My philosophy is that if it's been on TV and I could have recorded it and converted it to a digital file, how is that any different?
So if it's been on TV you'll go to walmart and steal a copy of it? It's the same thing. Stealing is Stealing.
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Are we talking TV shows or movies here?
I don't condone piracy, but that said, without it we definitely wouldn't have many of the options/technologies we have today.
When it's easier to acquire music on Napster than from the retailer, then people are going to switch. Apple clearly showed that when the price point is good (from the customer perspective) and access is easy (iTunes) people will flock to purchases.
The same goes for movies and today we have services like Netflix and Vudu that charge reasonable rates for a pretty good if not great product. And I'm really glad to see that HBO is finally joining the full on digital age and providing a non cable connected service.
