Great, just what we needed. Although on some of the channels we watch it appears that there are even more than the current 12 min max per hour in prime time. I guess those are likely American channels or purely satellite/cable and not Canadian broadcast channels.
Anyways, we’ll keep on skipping the commercials. PVR’s are a wonderful thing. Why watch live tv… watch something prerecorded when you want and skip all those commercials.
Beyond wearing out the skip-30sec-forward button we also tend to record stuff from Movie Central HD which airs series like Stargate Atlantis and Regenesis in HD, commercial free.
Mmmmmm commercial free HD goodness.
Yes, we do pay for that, and we also pay for some series on dvd etc.
I think straight up broadcasting that is supported by in-program advertising is on it’s way out, and will die the death it needs to die within the decade. One can hope anyways. I’d rather have a dozen or two dozen HD channels, commercial free than 300 mostly-sd with annoying commercials. If we could pay the same amount now for two dozen commercial free hd channels and drop all the other crap, I’d be happy. Probably buy a couple more PVR’s to handle recording it all, actually.
Before that would come to pass though, I think hd content will be available pay-per-show or pay-per-season via the internet. It does seem likely.
Oh, and Apple? Hurry the hell up with getting the distribution rights sorted out for movies and tv shows in Canada.
Even CBC would be nice for starters.
I’d love to buy tv and movies content from you via iTunes as soon as you get over that hurdle. Until then, BitTorrent is my friend.
Well, some limited TV content is now available in the iTunes Canada store. It’s a start . . . lets see if it gains any traction.
There’s almost exactly zero things there that I will pay for, but I will hope the selection improves.
Trever
December 30th, 2007