Thirteen Years Without TV

John Graham-Cumming has a blog entitled A year without TV. I know how he feels. I moved to Asia in 1997 so I’ve had 13 years with close to zero TV. I also don’t miss it. The few channels we can get are mostly international news channels (CNN, BBC, CNBC etc.). A constant looping source of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) meant to be watched in 20 minute chunks. TV fast food.

When I initially moved here there wasn’t the great variety of video available on the web that there is now. But cheap DVDs have always been here. Instead of video-on-demand it’s DVD-on-demand. Once you’ve experienced TV as what you want, when you want it and at an insignificant cost, normal push/appointment TV looses it’s appeal.

I’m convinced the future for content providers is to put everything on the web as soon as it’s ready (no more regional timing BS) and charge a dollar for each access. That is, a low unit cost but high number of units. It would be a high number of units because the quality would be better than the “free” versions. Basically giving consumers all over the World what they want, when and how they want it.