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Internet Eats Into Time-Warner Cable Porn Profits
Hugh Pickens writes "Big cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable keep saying they don't see Web video cutting into their business, but there's at least one big, dirty exception. Time Warner Cable said in its quarterly earnings report that its video-on-demand (VOD) business dropped significantly in the last quarter. Asked to explain where the drop came from, CEO Glenn Britt came clean, more or less: much of the drop is because, instead of renting a porn video in HD for $9.98, Time Warner's customers are getting their porn fix on the internet for free. 'One of the things going on with VOD is that there's been fairly steady trends over some time period now for adult to go down, largely because there's that kind of material available on the Internet for free,' says Britt. 'And that's pretty high margin.' To be fair, drooping porn rentals don't account for all of Time Warner Cable's VOD decline. Chief Financial Officer Rob Marcus said that while 'the biggest piece of the year-over-year decline was in fact in the adult category,' the rest of the drop is because there weren't many big pay-per-view events like boxing matches last quarter, and because regular movie rentals are down, too."
Having worked with the porn industry, it's mostly because cable companies just show that same old pornstar-looking women with silicons doing the same routine over and over again. People are willing to pay for porn but only if it's a niche they really like. This can be japanese, ladyboys, hairy women, old women, celebs and so on.. Yes, you can find these things freely on tube sites on the internet, but if you like something you want to get more of it and then you go find sites offering content that you cannot find for free. But cable companies will never take that in to their content, because they're afraid people will find it weird.
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I'd have expected this to be news 5-10 years ago. I'd say if they're only taking a hit from the Internet now, they should consider themselves lucky!
Profits down.
"there's been fairly steady trends over some time period now for adult to go down"
*snicker*
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"And that's pretty high margin." ...and also, the very definition of something that will eventually lose out to cheaper, lower-margin outlets, unless it maintains some niche specialization. And last I saw, cable companies weren't really "pushing the envelope" on porn.
(Which I think I'm grateful for...some of the descriptions of what's on kind of blow my mind. One channel used to draw my interest just for reading the descriptions. You could tell that the poor soul who was writing the synopses had kind of given up on life...it was hilarious. A movie had the phrase "frankly, defies explanation" in its summary.)
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The juxtaposition of "eats into" and "porn".
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... there's been fairly steady trends over some time period now for adult to go down ...
Well, yes.
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Hard to compete with free, but offer content and convenience at an attractive price and people will buy. Admit to ripping them off ("pretty high margin") and they are less likely to do so.
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The problem isn't porn. It's the quality of TV. There has been a steady decline in the quality of television since the 80s. As if 80s TV was great to begin with. Free Internet porn has been around for about a decade, but Sy-Fi (pronounced sy-phi-lus) has only been around for a little while. Watching people in cooking, renovating, buying real-estate, singing and dance competitions eliminate each other off the "reality" tv landscape as they act like selfish twats is getting old just as "talk shows" like Jerry Springer did once the shock factor wore off. Not to mention the stupid reality TV shows that follow around self-proclaim no-talent know-nothing bimbo "stars" like the Krapdashians So you cable execs need to take a bit of responsibility for your own stupidity in creating and buying bad TV instead of trying to blame people who already have their hand on their genitals and are openly admitting it by watching your crappy porn. You know you have trouble when you've managed to alienate even seasoned wankers!
Anyway who seriously needs or wants HD at $10 a pop to get aroused? Sometimes less detail is better. ASCII porn was popular back in the day and I remember idiotic strip poker on the Apple IIe back in the early 80s. But I guess having an imagination is so yesterday.
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As pay-for-tv companies start to see their video revenues decline, be ready for the severe data caps that will follow.
Cable and Telcos will fight to the death to keep from becoming dumb pipe providers, and thanks to our lack of net neutrality laws, or any sort of real competition in data services, they might succeed.
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Of their consideration of a pay-per-GB pricing for internet? Isn't that closer to the news for nerds - stuff that matters than where your average luddite is getting his rocks off?
... I can tell you there is a lot of porn available for VOD. Often when I use the directory to search for shows by names, I end up with results porn results coming back when I am typing in the name of the show I am looking for.
I will say from reading the descriptions that they do a fairly good job of covering the various generic fetishes, too. Any ethnicity you can imagine wanting to watch do whatever you might want, it's there...
Although I can't imagine wanting to pay my cable company to watch that, even considering the fact that the cable bill comes out of my checking account automatically without a printed bill ever mailed to my house...
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
As they say, Porn is the first adopter of technology. If this is the direction it moves, expect other VOD to follow
Where's my RAPE channel?
I just don't know why having sex at gunpoint is about the only thing that gets my rocks off.
As TV and pay per view/On Demand revenue goes down and gets cannibalized by the Internet, Internet service costs are going to go up. I fear we'll pay one way or the other.
It's sort of like driving like a jerk. If everyone does it, there won't be any gains. Not that there is anything wrong at all with using the Internet to save costs and consume media.
The cable companies will do as much as possible to prolong the old paradigm. Or at least keep you subscribing (things like HBO GO).
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
Do they really charge 10$ per vid? Friggin ridiculous... For twice that you'll probably get a blow job.
Seriously, every single person I know who subscribes to their services does so either because they have no other choice or because they were told by the landlord when they moved in that they had no other choice. Not a single one of them would keep the service if they had any other choice for cable.
While its an interesting theory that it is the internet that is causing the decline in Time Warner's revenue, and it is true that I know people who finally have gotten so fed up with them that they have decided to just use Hulu, Youtube and Netflix as their "TV service" instead, I honestly don't see that as even remotely reasonable evidence that the fault here lies with the internet. It seems pretty clear to me that what is eating into Time Warner's revenue is the shitty quality of their service across the board, from price to support to reliability it is just unacceptable, and always has been. People finally learning that? Boo-hoo, Time Warner. Maybe you guys should sack up and start caring about uptime, channel selection and customer service.
Warner Bro's cable having to publicly discuss their lack of profits on porn assets when their monopoly is primarily in areas where people have swallowed the religiosity pill. They are so fucked.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
Dinosaurs are a bad example of not evolving. They survived through an asteroid disaster and became birds. Whether TWC will follow the birds' example is the question here.
"To be fair, drooping porn", "adult to go down" whomever wrote that press-release should be given a medal.
Did the porn industry get that bail out money they were after? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4165049/US-porn-industry-seeks-multi-billion-dollar-bailout.html
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Yeah, it's true. The number of channels has ballooned, but the money for quality content has not. So to fill all the extra space they need a lot of very cheap programming.
It's even worse in Canada, where we have the government dictating that we get the Canadian version of the channel instead, which is almost always an inferior version with some very low budget crap thrown in to pad the schedule and meet content requirements. The business model of these channels doesn't even depend on getting viewers, it depends on getting into a bundle with a more popular channel so people are forced to pay you monthly for something they don't watch. (Most Canadian specialty channels make more revenue from subscription fees then they do from ads, and it's not even close in a lot of cases.)
The whole thing is a bubble ready to burst, and Netflix was something of a tipping point on that front.
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From what I can tell, all kinds of porn is available without paying for it. Whatever the niche you're serving, can't they just google it?
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Who wants to pay for "drooping porn'? I can get that at home - show me some "big and bouncy porn" or "petite and perky porn" or anything but "drooping porn"!
I never understood their pricing model for porn. I can see a $100,000,000 hollywood blockbuster for about $6. A $10,000 porn title runs $10. I bet if the porn titles were $2 people would use the convenience of VOD. Or they could do some sort of all the porn you can watch for $20/month
The problem isn't porn. It's the quality of TV. There has been a steady decline in the quality of television since the 80s. As if 80s TV was great to begin with
I don't agree with that., but that's just my personal opinion.
Sure, TV is still filled with tons of trash. We have more "Reality TV" and the music channels (like MTV) don't do much anymore, we stil have tons of Soap Operas an your basic sitcoms.
But some TV-shows have evolved, since just about all TV in the 80's were directed at the whole family (youngsters included) while now we the separate out the shows for adults, kids, etc.
Crime Shows / Mysteries
Crime shows are darker and grittier with more mature content; less fantasy, more reality. Instead of them walking into a room with a body under a sheet and the main character saying "they went to town on her" now they're allowed to say specifically what happened like "due to vaginal tearing we can tell she was raped" and include some science and forensics in the investigation. IE, talking about something new or interesting in forensics (and thus teach something) instead of Columbo picking up a blonde hair with his bare hands and saying "Aha."
They also try to be realistic; now-a-days our cop shows try to be very realistic, at least compared to Starsky and Hutch or TJ Hooker.
Meanwhile the motive also tend to be more varied since they're allowed to cover more sensitive areas. Sure, the motives still revolve around money / love / revenge but due to the "standards" of the 80s they could only say or do so many things. Now it can be "they assaulted my daughter" or "my wife gave me AIDS" or "my husband left me for another man."
Sure, Jessica from "Murder She Wrote" and Columbo were charismatic and all-around good... but so are characters like Adrian Monk, Elliot Stabler, Shawn Spencer, etc. And most of them demonstrate more personality than some of the old TV characters. Face it, Jessica was nice but was otherwise a plain/vanilla polite older woman.
Adventure / Heroes / SciFi
Compare the first season of Heroes with the $6million Man or the Bionic Woman. Special effects aside, there is a LOT more complexity in the newer shows than those old hits. The characters are dealing with more personal demons or concepts, instead of the Bionic Woman having 1 or 2 episodes where she was depressed about not being a real woman anymore.
The recent Battlestar Galactica wasn't everyone's cup of tea. But go back and watch the original, seriously go and watch a marathon. It was the same 3 or 4 flight sequences shown over and over, it was VERY family oriented and/or directed to 7-year-olds. There was little/no realistic reaction to being the survivors of a holocaust. And the science fiction elements were quite rare. With the remake we got more cerebral discussions on politics, philosophy, and emotion. AND we got more in-depth science fiction descriptions and discussions: AI, FTL, how this widget works, etc.
Star Trek: granted the original series was the 60s and not the 80s. But in the original we didn't get much explanation for the events going on, just the occasional strange alien that had a weird ability. Did we learn how their FTL work, no just that it required dilithium crystals. The Next Generation / DS9 / Voyager really put the sci-fi elements to shame. We got real-life theories on how stuff might work, some real biology terms, and some fake techno-babble.
Catoons
And don't get me started on cartoons. Try watching some 80's era Transformers, GI Joe, Smurfs, etc. Taking off the rose-colored glasses and you'll see they were lame... even for the targetted age-groups. Now watch one of the DCAU cartoons (Justice League, Batman TAS, etc), or Young Justice, or Generator Rex, or heck even the Thundercats or Transformers revivals going on now. More mature, more cerebral, better animation, etc. Sure there's still Sponge Bob and Adventure Time but they try to make things more complex
Do they really charge 10$ per vid? Friggin ridiculous... For twice that you'll probably get a blow job.
and AIDS.
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The Internet is for porn, no the cable.
There has been a steady decline in the quality of television since the 80s. As if 80s TV was great to begin with.
TV was called a "vast wasteland" in 1961. It's always been terrible.
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Click that link; it's a good, quick couple paragraphs to read.
People like me who, 2.5 years ago, said FU big cable companies and pulled the plug completely. There is plenty to see in full bandwidth HD over the airwaves (as opposed to compressed to hell and back before the cable company send it down my wire). All I miss is ESPN. TNT would be nice during the NBA playoffs. All in all I save $100/month (at least) and still see most NFL games I want.
ESPN should set up local OTA affiliates, I'd pay $10/month. Besides that I won't pay for any television.
Well, there is hope. TLC finally gave Kate Gosselin the boot! Unfortunately, she was replaced by Big Hair Alaska, a new reality show about Sarah Palin's hairdresser in Wasilla. Yikes!
Except for Space, its now a vastly superior channel to Sy-Fy,
All my porn consists of a 5 minute video, that I play over and over again... no need for more than that, it gets the JOB done..
$10 for renting a single video? I think thats the problem. I could buy video for $10-15, but rent for $1-2. Those prices are unreasonable.
Hey Time-Warner! Maybe you people can start featuring more videos with Lex destroying the babes then you may be able to stem the tide a bit. Oh and keep the softcore for the ladies.
Nah because without condom would definitely be extra.
Ahem.. new CN programs like Adventure Time and Regular Show are light years away from Sponge Bob. AT and RS work with little kids but watch them sometime and you'll see a whole lot of elements in there that are directed directly at 25-40 year olds... lots of references to old video games, inside jokes for the parents, etc. They are have more in common with the old Warner Brothers shorts meant for all ages than anything from the 1980s and clearly have jokes that the little ones won't get. There is a lot of great programming on Cartoon Network, but that is one of the exceptions on Cable right now. TNT and AMC are a couple of others and most of the other networks are no longer even trying.
You are giving your name, other subscription related datasets, and [i]your sexual preferences[/i] to your cable company.
Maybe they can patent sex and sue people who do it without a license?
Also it seems appropriate this time: WTF?
That's what she WANTED you to think. In reality, she was the most diabolical sociopath to ever live, able to murder dozens of people and not only pin the crime on others but usually get them to CONFESS to it! How else can you explain a writer "stumbling" into so many murders?
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Go down to your local dildo shop and BUY most porn DVD's for $9.99 still sealed and free of bodily fluids. What idiot does PPV Porn? OH I know who... the Teenager at home when mom and dad go out of town and dad is a moron and never looks at the cable bill.
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"less fantasy, more reality."
have you WATCHED CSI? It's 98% fantasy and 2% made up crap. 0% reality.
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'One of the things going on with VOD is that there's been fairly steady trends over some time period now for adult to go down..." Giggity -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDPrpzbIUgg&feature=related
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Has anyone figured out the share of network traffic that is used for porn?
Has anyone figured out the share of cable tv traffic that is used for porn?
I ask this because in the old days, there was perhaps one adult theater for almost 50 to 100 regular movie theaters. Likewise, there is about 1 'dirty' book store for ever 50 to 100 'clean' or regular book stores.
I am talking of the 1960's and 1970's, prior to mass cable and internet.
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Ten dollars for RENTING a porn video? No wonder they're getting their porn elsewhere.
The FCC states that the landlord can suck it in his bunghole. People really need to become more educated.
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Before any of the following rules can help a tenant, two conditions must be satisfied:
The tenant must have a place to put the satellite that he/she does not share with other tenants, such as a balcony or patio.
The satellite dish that the tenant plans to install must be less than one meter (39.37 inches) in diameter. These rules also apply to installation of TV antennas and wireless antennas.
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What restrictions can the landlord put on my ability to install a satellite?
Rules that don't unfairly harm your satellite service;
Clearly-defined safety restrictions;
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What can't the landlord do to restrict my ability to install a satellite on the rental property?
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Significantly delay or stop you from obtaining a satellite service.
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How much can my landlord increase the cost of my dish? Can he make me pay a deposit?
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Or a teenager decided to gets a spoofed card fr the cable box and no one know what he did.
In the 70s, I built a circuit so I could descramble the porn.
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Do you even watch spongebob? there are tons of jokes clearly aimed at parents.
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Do they really charge 10$ per vid? Friggin ridiculous... For twice that you'll probably get a blow job.
and AIDS.
You have absolutely zero change of getting AIDS as a receiver end of a blow job. This has been scientifically proven. There is a little risk on the giving part, but it is also insignificant.
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Ahem.. new CN programs like Adventure Time and Regular Show are light years away from Sponge Bob. .
Don't get me wrong, I watch more Cartoon Network that I care to admit. While I don't watch much Adventure Time or The Regular Show I have seen them and know they are NOT the Snorks / Smurfs / etc. And The Venture Brothers are one of my favorite shows period, just behind Archer (from FX).
But for argument's sake I wanted to stick with the more action-oriented shows were people actually get hurt and there are deeper plots comparing to similar shows from the 80s (Justice League vs Super Friends / GI Joe Renegades vs 80s G Joe / Thundercats remake vs 80s Thundercats / etc).
It's hard to make an argument that cartoons are more hard-core now than before if the reader doesn't know anything about AT or RS and just did a quick Google Image Search and see primitive art w/ rainbows and birds they might ask WTF I was smoking by saying they are more advanced than old shows.
The recent Battlestar Galactica wasn't everyone's cup of tea. But go back and watch the original, seriously go and watch a marathon
I just did. BSG (the new one), Caprica and BSG (the original) plus BSG 1980 (the time travel one).
BSG (the new one, way too soapy for my liking, 'soap in space' pretty much sums it up for me but enough of that)
BSG (the original one) I SWEAR that the original script was written in a language other than English and they used a primitive version of Google translate to render it into English.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
And don't get me started on cartoons. Try watching some 80's era Transformers, GI Joe, Smurfs, etc. Taking off the rose-colored glasses and you'll see they were lame... even for the targetted age-groups.
Well, it was nice knowing this user. After even the slightest murmur in a forum populated by a bunch of children-of-the-80s-and-90s nerds that 80s era cartoons were anything less than whatever equivalent of the second coming of the Messiah is to them, I suspect the next we hear about kannibal_klown will be the grisly autopsy report, complete with the description of the crime scene, including such details as "the culprits repeatedly wrote the phrase 'MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE' on the walls using the victim's blood, most likely as a warning".
I mean, assuming the Japanophiles don't get to him first for failure to show proper worship to their favoritest cartoons ever when discussing animation of any form. Those lunatics are ruthless.
". There has been a steady decline in the quality of television since the 80s."
Wrong. There are fasr more good, if not grate' things on TV then in the 80s.
Reality shows or only a tiny slice of what most people have access to.
Here is a small list of thing I consider substantially better then anything in then 80s:
Family Guy
American Dad
IT crowd
Sherlock
Burn Notice
White Collar
Dr. Who
Top Gear
Chuck
Colbert Report
Daily Show
Bones(although the latest season sucks)
And I could go on.
I you sure you're not just being nostalgic? I know I have lot of shows from the 70s that I enjoy, but going back and watching them I can't call them 'good' by today's standards. Also, some of the shots make be feel too damn old. Like the Rockford files where he goes to Vegas and there are only about 6 buildings on the strip. The rest is empty sand lots.
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Wanna bet?
If you want to take your chances and get head from a bisexual, hemophiliac, Haitian, IV drug using hooker I'll pay.
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"less fantasy, more reality."
have you WATCHED CSI? It's 98% fantasy and 2% made up crap. 0% reality.
True, CSI and those insane User Interfaces on their PCs are scifi... sorry but the Fingerprint Matching app is not 2 steps away from the interface on "Minority Report." The fact that they have DNA tests coming back within hours or 1-2 days is bonkers. And CSI Miami is more action-oriented than crime drama.
But they do include more forensics and pathology in the show than back-in-the-day. Like I said, back in the day you were limited to finding a blonde hair with your bare hands, not seeing much with the body, and just hearing the doctor say something vague like "they really messed up that poor woman and then bashed in her skull."
Now they talk about sweat, explain gun-shot-residue via animations (over-and-over-and-over), mentioning different chemicals. How such-and-such trace evidence matches up with a car or what-not.
The medical examiner will describe the injury in detail, mentioning the specific bones, arteries, etc. Actually, the show "Bones" is a good example of them describing the injuries even if the action-side of things gets a little far-fetched.
Seriously, how many people wank in front of a television? Isn't a laptop or computer in a more private room part of why people don't pay for VOD porn?
Do they really charge 10$ per vid? Friggin ridiculous... For twice that you'll probably get a blow job.
and AIDS.
AIDS from a blow job?
Any bets on how long it will be until the cable companies lobby to make internet porn illegal?
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Trolling is a art,
Sometimes reality doesn't adjust to an old model of commerce. Like RIAA or Patent trolls or we-all-know-is-to-protect-friends regulations...maybe is time to analyze first what people want before trying to sell anything. With the ability of moving digital data FAST, CDs will disappear soon...so DVDs...and next in the list, blu-rays....you don't need to be a genius to figure out that the future will be a super fast data network and consumers getting information on demand. Choosing phone carriers with a prefix, and accessing exclusive content on companies (audio, video, information). Has no sense to have 4 superimposed expensive cell phone infrastructure in the big cities and dial-up in the countryside.
Sometimes less detail is better. ASCII porn was popular back in the day and I remember idiotic strip poker on the Apple IIe back in the early 80s. But I guess having an imagination is so yesterday.
Those were stopgap measures. If you want imagination you read erotic literature--or then would you argue for less detail and prefer "See Jane Fuck" text?
$10 for a single porn with only a 24 hour window to watch is a ridiculous price. Especially when you consider how much of it most people are actually going to watch. I have no problem paying for porn if the price is right. Either paying for the time I actually spend watching it, or getting a week over which I can watch maybe one scene a sitting. Better yet are the sites that give you "all you can eat" for a single price.
They price the VOD porn higher than the regular VOD movies, probably because they figure their customers will be too embarrassed to complain. But it seems they've learned to just go elsewhere.
I dunno. The police must have been in on it. How else could literally everyone she knows, even casually, end up a murder victim with no suspicion aimed at her?
Hmm..not really a problem/concern if you're on the receiving end of said blow job.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
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Aside from freakish occurance...or if the giver and receiver both have open sores.....I have a hard time believing there are documented cases of a healthy guy getting HIV from an infected chick giving him head....where no torn skin, etc is involved.
Not something I'd be terribly concerned about....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
According to the CDC it can get in through the urethra. *shrug*
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Is tv worse than it was in the 80s? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. There were some great shows on in the 80s
but there was lots and lots of crap on in the 80s. Manimal, Dynasty. If you go back and actually watch
shows from the 1980s they are unintentionally hilarious. There are many shows from the 1980s that do not age well.
The problem with cable video on demand is that price should have dropped continously but it hasnt. Its now cheaper
to buy dvds than to watch VOD, and the internet has gotten to the point of where its cheap(or free) and good enough.
While dropping porn demand is one problem for cable giants its just the symptom of the fact that their services(porn and otherwise)
arent worth what they are charging.
Cable tv customers want their service to be a big fat pipe, and the problem is most of what the customers get on their
cable tv packages are not what they want to watch. The future of tv is Roku where people buy their own tv box and pick their own channels.
Tons and tons. It even looks like there's vague double entendres scattered about. And jokes about The Monkees? What kid is going to get that?
Everyone, just to get their actual fix, actually mixes their favorite climax audio to an otherwise uninviting scene and magically it becomes verry rousing to earn awards.
Many scenes are like this, like Shawshank Redemption and Van Damme In Hell especially. If I was to pick an audio dub to mask over the interview of Time Warner Cable, it would be a scene from The Last Starfighter ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLN36pgwS5o ) in **HD.
**Legend:
Large Ship = Time Warner Cable,
Little Ship = Freeloading Faggot,
Moon = Free Internet Porn.
The recent Battlestar Galactica wasn't everyone's cup of tea. But go back and watch the original, seriously go and watch a marathon
I just did. BSG (the new one), Caprica and BSG (the original) plus BSG 1980 (the time travel one).
BSG (the new one, way too soapy for my liking, 'soap in space' pretty much sums it up for me but enough of that)
BSG (the original one) I SWEAR that the original script was written in a language other than English and they used a primitive version of Google translate to render it into English.
I didn't have problems with phrasing, and the writing was probably "par for the course" for back then. It is just, in my opinion, a weak show by today's standards.
For back then, it was "The bomb." I loved watching the old BSG and Gil Gerard Buck Rogers show as a kid. And while I think Buck is still semi-decent even today, people going on about how the old BSG had superior writing are still wearing rose-colored glasses. You might not like the new BSG (as it IS soap-y) but the storyline was better, the dialog was better, the action scenes better, etc.
Though the original's StarBuck is still iconic
Well, it was nice knowing this user. After even the slightest murmur in a forum populated by a bunch of children-of-the-80s-and-90s nerds that 80s era cartoons were anything less than whatever equivalent of the second coming of the Messiah is to them, I suspect the next we hear about kannibal_klown will be the grisly autopsy report, complete with the description of the crime scene, including such details as "the culprits repeatedly wrote the phrase 'MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE' on the walls using the victim's blood, most likely as a warning".
I mean, assuming the Japanophiles don't get to him first for failure to show proper worship to their favoritest cartoons ever when discussing animation of any form. Those lunatics are ruthless.
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Don't get me wrong, as a kid my top fav shows were Buck Rogers, Transformers, GI Joe, and Thundercats. But going back and watching that stuff now... between being older / more mature and just the dated content... it's pretty weak.
I'm OK when a cartoon is subtly trying to drive a message home... but the cartoons of the 80s flashed big neon signs shouting "SHARE" or "DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER."
I haven't bought one article of porn since about 1993. No magazines, (news stand or sex shop style) no movies or movie rentals. I wouldn't pay for porn on the Internet either. There's always more than enough smut to look at.
Those assfucks at Comcrap and Time Waster are just starting to whine about this phenomenon now?
the rest of the drop is because there weren't many big pay-per-view events like boxing matches last quarter, and because regular movie rentals are down, too
Sure, but WHY are movie rentals down? Because people are smart and realize that instead of paying $4 (or whatever it costs these days) to rent a movie from Blockbuster or watch it on VOD, they can pay $8 and watch as many movies as they want on Netflix. You'd think that if Netflix can pay the applicable licensing fees to let you watch a movie or two every day for $8/mo, that the cable companies are making huge margins on their VOD rentals. If it were me, I'd sure as heck be figuring out how to lower my VOD pricing to something like $1-2 per rental to put themselves in the same price point as companies like redbox. Bam, you would probably instantly increase VOD sales by a factor of 10. And while we're talking about VOD, folks know that you the cable co isn't the only game in town when it comes to watching UFC or other big ticket PPV shows. Roku and several other streaming services have them too. It's still the same OLD mentality that just doesn't get it...
Man, your icon (that one suit without a head) was pwned by Anonymous, change it !!!
We have not had cable in years, but do visit a relative that often involves finding a movie to watch on Cox's video on demand. The whole system is an experiment in pain.
The On Demand involves going though several layers of menu for each product you might have, for example HBO movies... go back two menus, and then down two menu's to see a list of Stars movies, etc. Why not one list, with one column having the logo of the source, one column the price (free, $5), and items you can not get greyed out?
Too bad there is not enough competition for cable companies to have to compete on usability
hell even http://video.google.com/ with safesearch turned off nets thousands of full length titles free when you go to left and sort by length.
and of course with http://motherless.com/ No site can compete with motherless, it is the reigning king of all smut for now, every topic imaginable from full length amateurs, webcam rips from stickam teens, to as crazy and wild as you can imagine, even some you would think would be illegal, but motherless has been around a few years now.
places like http://motherless.com/ - http://wide6.com/ - http://newsfilter.org/ - http://www.tubegalore.com/ and http://video.google.com/ with safesearch off sorted by length
anyone that pays for pr0n is a idiot :P
plus video.google.com beats all competition in 1 aspect. http://video.google.com/ with safesearch off has EVERY Traci Lords video which you won't find on normal sites
So I think Google and Motherless wins hands down.
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The recent Battlestar Galactica wasn't everyone's cup of tea. But go back and watch the original, seriously go and watch a marathon
I just did. BSG (the new one), Caprica and BSG (the original) plus BSG 1980 (the time travel one).
BSG (the new one, way too soapy for my liking, 'soap in space' pretty much sums it up for me but enough of that)
BSG (the original one) I SWEAR that the original script was written in a language other than English and they used a primitive version of Google translate to render it into English.
I didn't have problems with phrasing, and the writing was probably "par for the course" for back then. It is just, in my opinion, a weak show by today's standards.
For back then, it was "The bomb." I loved watching the old BSG and Gil Gerard Buck Rogers show as a kid. And while I think Buck is still semi-decent even today, people going on about how the old BSG had superior writing are still wearing rose-colored glasses. You might not like the new BSG (as it IS soap-y) but the storyline was better, the dialog was better, the action scenes better, etc.
Though the original's StarBuck is still iconic
I agree that the new BSG storyline is better, but you have to cut through so much crap to see the storyline without getting bored to tears by the soap and emotional drama. They actually talk and move so slowly in new BSG that you can watch it at 3 times speed and it seems normal. In Caprica its more like 4 times speed.
As for the original Starbuck, I can't help but wonder if he was supposed to be... gay? And thats why they cast him as a woman in the new one; because they just couldn't have such a camp guy in a modern series without undermining its whole "must take ourselves very very seriously" thing that they have going on. (yeah I know Starbuck womanises, but he does it in such a camp way).
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
I would've paid top dollar to keep Pinky & The Brain going!
I'm only going to watch this video for maybe 5-10 minutes max, then I'll probably fall asleep and never watch it again in the 8 hr block they give you.
I must admit to liking the new thunder cats thus far, it’s on par with the original. But as I have recently considered children soon I’ve started paying some attention to children programming today and re watching some children programming from my youth. Most of todays shows are complete garbage, especially the younger stuff. It’s a new age of PC friendly educational bullshit that I refuse to let my kids watch. The TV shouldn’t be about teaching you why your pee looks like it does, or why that "yellow" girl up the street talks funny. It should be about a fun occasional break from reality to enjoy an oddly shaped rabbit picking on a large headed hunter or dressing in drag singing opera. It should be about random bears bouncing around after drinking magic juice just because, not about how to say dog in 6 different languages.
Now thats not to say that all of the cartoons of yor hold up to scrutiny, some of them were likewise really stupid but I am convinced that we will never again see the golden age of animated cartoons like the late 80s early 90s saw. Some of the cartoon network stuff like the before mentioned superhero shows, generator rex, Johnny test ect do give me some hope though, but then I see shit like that new Mickey mouse show or new Garfield where they have enormous "3d" heads and walk around solving clues likes its fucking blues clues on acid crushes those hopes.
I’m surprised anyone is still sitting in front of a TV to consume it. Smartphones have taken this need away. Personally, I visit a couple of sites but use a live cam site mainly, CamContacts, to get the real deal with real girls paying attention just to me! People are fed up of acting, and the frankly ridiculous plotlines. What I like is the fact that I can call the shots, and no-one else.”