October 28, 2007
"Streaming is a fad, and a bad one at that"
An article in The Denver Post reports on how the networks are offering primetime episodes in streaming - more on that here - but what's entertaining are the interviews of skeptics who say streaming is a fad, and a bad one at that.
"Phillip Swann, president and publisher of TVPredictions.com, believes "streaming is not the future, not in any kind of long form."
Swann belongs to the old school that insists PCs are for work, TV is for entertainment (!), and the twain don't meet.
"All the networks trying to put their programming online are going to fail," Swann maintains. "People are simply not going to sit around on a computer and watch television. For 30, 60, 90 seconds they can see some guy hit himself in the head on YouTube, but they won't sit for a whole half-hour of "Two and a Half Men."'
"Do people really want to watch 'Desperate Housewives' on a 2.5-inch screen when they just bought a 56-inch screen?" he asks.
To him, "all these efforts to try to make a TV out of a PC and a PC out of a TV have consistently failed. It's trying to put a square peg in a round hole."
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
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