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Boston, MA | A for Effort Broadcast networks today are like the RIAA in 2000. Eventually they will realize they don't control the distribution and use of the content -- we do.
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join:2001-06-20
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| And mean While..... In the back ground is Apple's hobby, iTV which may or may not go the iTunes route with content. Imagine being able to watch TV shows directly from the producers of such shows instead of them going through as they do now through layers and layers of distribution companies. This would cut out all of the middle men each of whom exercise content control and raise the cost. Watch out Traditional TV land there is a monster lurking in the back ground. 
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Glen Head, NY | said by Transmaster:In the back ground is Apple's hobby, iTV which may or may not go the iTunes route with content. Imagine being able to watch TV shows directly from the producers of such shows instead of them going through as they do now through layers and layers of distribution companies. I would be curious to see what Two-and-a-Half Men looks like if it wasn't subject to censoring by CBS. If Chuck Lorre's vanity cards are accurate, there is some funky stuff that gets dropped due to "network standards".
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2 edits | All you have to do is watch a current sitcom produced in the UK. Gays, of both sex's, but mostly men, transitory in context nudity, etc. The BBC, and the independent channels do have a formula for these sitcom just like in the US, but this standard is far more open. Some of these shows are so funny you have to watch them several times to see everything because you are rolling around on the floor laughing. others are just plain awful.
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | Well the US Networks and the FCC are run by a bunch of prudes. You can bet while its ok for two women to kiss and even semi make out on network TV. if two guys shared a loving kiss in primetime the phones at the network would light up with in moments with angry bible thumping parents claiming the network was corrupting their kids.
but have no fear, detailed HD recreations of violent murders on CSI? that is fine with em.
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1 edit | said by Kearnstd:Well the US Networks and the FCC are run by a bunch of prudes. You can bet while its ok for two women to kiss and even semi make out on network TV. if two guys shared a loving kiss in primetime the phones at the network would light up with in moments with angry bible thumping parents claiming the network was corrupting their kids. but have no fear, detailed HD recreations of violent murders on CSI? that is fine with em. This is where an iTune model for TV programing delivery would be so great, a Vodcast you could subscribe to like it is with podcasts. I presently have to bittorrent what I watch from the UK if I could subscribe to some of these shows I would do so, and pay for it. I would be happy with programing from Channel4, BBC-2, and BBC-4.
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| Given that during 50's (altough it was worse), they were giving a hard time the sex doctor Kinsey to publish his theories, studies and research about human sexuality, it is no surprise they censor anything that seems to be off from normal.
But what he found interesting is, some couples including parents, have had extramarital affairs and not only with opposite sexes (swingers come to my mind). Of course kids not supposed to know that
In meanwhile, you could try to stream UK shows using UK VPN server. You just need one that has a dedicated connection and is fast |
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Re: And mean While..... said by Transmaster:In the back ground is Apple's hobby, iTV which may or may not go the iTunes route with content. Imagine being able to watch TV shows directly from the producers of such shows instead of them going through as they do now through layers and layers of distribution companies. This would cut out all of the middle men each of whom exercise content control and raise the cost. Watch out Traditional TV land there is a monster lurking in the back ground. There are only three layers - the group that funds and distributes the content, the group that creates the content, and the cable/telco/ISP that provides the network connection. So, your network, the people they pay to make the content, and the local broadcaster/cable/telco the sends it to your TV.
Plus, they don't want Google displaying ads on the TV with their content in a window. On cable side, they can do contractual limitations that control how their content is displayed. If they play with Google, they lose that control.
Google TV can go directly to the content creator to get content and bypass that normal middlemen. However, no one has been able to build a business around that direct to consumer model yet. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Transmaster
said by Transmaster:said by Kearnstd:Well the US Networks and the FCC are run by a bunch of prudes. You can bet while its ok for two women to kiss and even semi make out on network TV. if two guys shared a loving kiss in primetime the phones at the network would light up with in moments with angry bible thumping parents claiming the network was corrupting their kids. but have no fear, detailed HD recreations of violent murders on CSI? that is fine with em. This is where an iTune model for TV programing delivery would be so great, a Vodcast you could subscribe to like it is with podcasts. I presently have to bittorrent what I watch from the UK if I could subscribe to some of these shows I would do so, and pay for it. I would be happy with programing from Channel4, BBC-2, and BBC-4. And people from the UK and EU torrent US shows, though they do it because our anti-consumer corrupt media conglomerates have series delayed by up to a year for official broadcast channels outside of North America. which was fine up to the late 1990s but nowadays it is kind of hard to be active in a fan community when you are a season behind. Same thing can happen in the reverse direction, lots of US people Torrent Dr. Who for example rather than waiting on the broadcast here.
Funny thing is people on both sides of the Atlantic have admitted if they could legally access same day release of the media they would pay for it. so you have a waiting consumer base but dont service it and then they cry to their purchased lawmakers here in the US that piracy ruins their business but they make no effort to supply those willing to pay.
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 SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
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Screw itunes.. why soes it always have to be itunes?
Itunes censors as well.
Instead people can do what these few people have done:
This series is put directly on the web.
»www.riesetheseries.com/
Ink the movie: The producers put it out onto Bit Torrent to get the movie out to people that would enjoy it.
»www.jaminwinans.com/
The resistance:
»www.theresistanceseries.com/#/home
The point I am getting at is you don't need Itunes for everything.
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TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
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1 edit | said by Snakeoil:Screw iTunes.. why does it always have to be iTunes? The point I am getting at is you don't need ITunes for everything. Ok you don't like iTunes, Apple and Steve Jobs, however iTunes is the 9000 ton gorilla in content delivery and the example to look at. iTunes already has a massive frame work up and running. iTV is just a part of this process and right now is just a long term project for Apple.
The problem is the TV and Movie industry has seen what iTunes has done to the music business. The record labels first let iTune distribute their catalogs. They thought because they held all of the rights to these recordings they had Apple by the 'nads. Too late they learned who had who. To make matters even worse for these gangsters artists realized they could directly sell their musical efforts on iTunes bypassing the studio completely. This is the real fear of the television broadcasters what happened to the recording industry will happen to them.
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said by Transmaster:All you have to do is watch a current sitcom produced in the UK. Gays, of both sex's, but mostly men, transitory in context nudity, etc. The BBC, and the independent channels do have a formula for these sitcom just like in the US, but this standard is far more open. Some of these shows are so funny you have to watch them several times to see everything because you are rolling around on the floor laughing. others are just plain awful. Why aren't there gay female shows... that's so much more interesting. *cough* On a purely intellectual level. |
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