Also Pioneer One, the online TV show, they made it on a shoe string funded by fan donations. They made the first episode and hoped and prayed that it was good enough that fans would donate money or buy merchandise for the next episode. For a total of 60,000 dollars they had a great show and are now working on the second season. If they had a corperate advertiser backing them it would be no problem.
The Legal alternatives (BBC iplayer, 4OD ect) are often a poor attempt with only a few recent shows avalible, bad indexing and searching. My friends and I dont mind adverts before the video however some services put them in the middle when there isnot supposed to be an advert (mid-speech) and these adverts are unskipable.
I am often confused about how business minds say that websites arent profitable in terms of advertising and always question its real worth, yet in there next breath they use untargeted irrelivant advertising in newspapers, magazines and TV ads as well as product placement in TV and films.
I dont see why the TV providers dont just upload their content for free online (with past episodes) with a 5 mins of targeted adverts (relating to the show or film) at the start or end of the program. This way the advertisements would be more effective, we get free content and im sure the show itself would become more profitable. the downsides are that we have some ad's (that we could ignore like we do with TV) and the TV channels can be cut out of the picture, no more middle man.
Also situations like Fox cancel's FireFly would be rarer too as show stats and profitability wouuld be transparent.
With the argument about music, it is widley known that musicians make more money from music tours and merchandise than they do with album sales. To furthur express this point, some musicians dont mind people downloading there music because it makes them more likely to go to a live show or buy merchandise.
While a TV show dosent go on tour with live shows, they do sell merchandise (or some do anyway ie big bang theory). This could easily be included with an online streaming or downloading facility (adverts while you download perhaps) with links to buy merchandise. This way everryone around the world can enjoy the same content at the same time,for free (like we want), yet still have plenty of oppurtunities to fee us annoying advertisements and sell us crap like they want. WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL AND WHY DONT THEY BOTHER TO TRY HARDER, welcome to the 21st century TV providers.
In the UK this problem was also an issue in rural areas, and still is. As stated above most advertise 'up to' as the bandwidth, The government saw this as flase advertising so the ISP's just changed the way the advertisements and contracts were written instead of improving the service provided (as it can be VERY expensive with miles of fiber optic being layed).
Now the Government and ISP's aswell as mobile companies, are trying and rolling out 4G broadband with the 4G toggle that can be pulgged into a designed house router and unplugged and used elseware 'on the go'. I know that the US already has 4G although a slower standard or version. this could be an alternative, providing that you are within the signal range to a 4G broadcast tower, plus it may give you more freedom than you were expecting.
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Also Pioneer One, the online TV show, they made it on a shoe string funded by fan donations. They made the first episode and hoped and prayed that it was good enough that fans would donate money or buy merchandise for the next episode. For a total of 60,000 dollars they had a great show and are now working on the second season. If they had a corperate advertiser backing them it would be no problem.
The Legal alternatives (BBC iplayer, 4OD ect) are often a poor attempt with only a few recent shows avalible, bad indexing and searching. My friends and I dont mind adverts before the video however some services put them in the middle when there isnot supposed to be an advert (mid-speech) and these adverts are unskipable. I am often confused about how business minds say that websites arent profitable in terms of advertising and always question its real worth, yet in there next breath they use untargeted irrelivant advertising in newspapers, magazines and TV ads as well as product placement in TV and films. I dont see why the TV providers dont just upload their content for free online (with past episodes) with a 5 mins of targeted adverts (relating to the show or film) at the start or end of the program. This way the advertisements would be more effective, we get free content and im sure the show itself would become more profitable. the downsides are that we have some ad's (that we could ignore like we do with TV) and the TV channels can be cut out of the picture, no more middle man. Also situations like Fox cancel's FireFly would be rarer too as show stats and profitability wouuld be transparent. With the argument about music, it is widley known that musicians make more money from music tours and merchandise than they do with album sales. To furthur express this point, some musicians dont mind people downloading there music because it makes them more likely to go to a live show or buy merchandise. While a TV show dosent go on tour with live shows, they do sell merchandise (or some do anyway ie big bang theory). This could easily be included with an online streaming or downloading facility (adverts while you download perhaps) with links to buy merchandise. This way everryone around the world can enjoy the same content at the same time,for free (like we want), yet still have plenty of oppurtunities to fee us annoying advertisements and sell us crap like they want. WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL AND WHY DONT THEY BOTHER TO TRY HARDER, welcome to the 21st century TV providers.
In the UK this problem was also an issue in rural areas, and still is. As stated above most advertise 'up to' as the bandwidth, The government saw this as flase advertising so the ISP's just changed the way the advertisements and contracts were written instead of improving the service provided (as it can be VERY expensive with miles of fiber optic being layed). Now the Government and ISP's aswell as mobile companies, are trying and rolling out 4G broadband with the 4G toggle that can be pulgged into a designed house router and unplugged and used elseware 'on the go'. I know that the US already has 4G although a slower standard or version. this could be an alternative, providing that you are within the signal range to a 4G broadcast tower, plus it may give you more freedom than you were expecting.