In a fit of roommate bonding and late-night boredom, my new roommate and I decided to check out the Netflix series House of Cards. I hadn't seen advertisements and knew little about the content. The only information I had going in was that it was an unserialized serial -- all parts of the whole available for viewing at the same time.
We’ve come a long way since the days of 3 channels and rabbit ears.
I can stream HD movies and TV shows to my Roku HD with Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. I can store limitless amounts of video on my plex server and stream them to my iphone and watch them where ever and when ever I want.
So, the question is… Have we arrived?
Is this the content consuming utopia we all dreamed about? No.
Streaming services have limited catalogs, next-day-air services like hulu still make us wait until the next day to watched their limited offerings of shows. Copyright holders are still afraid that we’re some how getting something for free and taking money out of their wallets.
February 21, 2013
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