Originally posted by: sourceninja
It's sad when its more convenient and easier to watch pirated content then legal content. I don't mind commercials, I don't mind paying for content. But they simply refuse to give it to me in a useful format.
I even bought a ps3 to watch blueray videos. But all the unstoppable adds for blueray at the beginning of the videos makes it much more convenient to just download a 1080p rip.
These content makers need to wake up! Didn't they just announce that the simpsons makes more money on hulu then on tv? TV is old and outdated. Let the rein of on-demand viewing begin.
I buy movies and TV shows on DVD, and then I usually download a copy and put the DVDs in a box. I started ripping my TV shows, but then I realized it would take me about a year to get through all of them (probably could do it faster with my new computer).
I wouldn't call TV outdated yet, because the alternative you propose is not yet possible on a large scale. Regular TV is a far more efficient way to deliver content, because everyone shares the same signal. Between its origin and your house it is split multiple times, but it is not until the signal is very close to your house that there is a lot of redundancy signals.
With streaming over the Internet, every person has their own distinct signal that has to travel from the origin to your house. Imagine that everyone in the country had a cable line that stretched all the way from their house to Los Angeles. Not terribly efficient. That's essentially what you have when everyone is streaming over the Internet. Streaming video CAN be efficient - for instance, if the streaming content is housed at your cable company's local facility. Streaming over the Internet is not efficient.
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