Phoenix84
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Post by Phoenix84 on May 1, 2013 10:59:53 GMT -5
Lately, I've been finding more and more I feel traditional models of entertainment and shopping are archaic and outdated.
Even though I'm not that into television, let's take that as an example. The traditional model of television is there are seasons and shows come out on a weekly basis with about 20% of the time being commercials. If you can't make the show time you have to either record it somehow (like with TIVO) or go to (wait for it) a on demand service like netflix or hulu.
Or, for one more example, a couple of months ago I wanted to buy a video game. It wasn't even that late for a Friday night, about 9:30, but all the traditional stores were closed. For this particular game, I did want a disc copy, but I ended up having to buy it at walmart because they were the only one's open. And this had been the first game I had actually bought in the store in close to a year. It just seems horrendiously outdated.
Usually I apply my examples to entertainment, but one could apply this to shopping as well.
So do you find the traditional models of doing stuff to be outdated our inconvenient? Do you think the traditional models of entertainment and shopping will eventually be replaced by more "modern" methods utilizing the internet?
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Phoenix84
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Post by Phoenix84 on May 1, 2013 11:03:56 GMT -5
This is already happening with print journalism. I've heard some claim that print jounalism, newspapers and magizenes will be dead within 10 years.
It's already happening with video games too, digital sales rise year after year and traditional brick and morter stores are selling less and less.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2013 11:12:26 GMT -5
And even in video games, the market is changing from pay games, in which you would pay $50 for a game to free games.
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Post by thyme4change on May 1, 2013 11:44:08 GMT -5
Look how different watching television is now vs. 20 years ago. I remember when we got a VCR, and it changed everything for us. We could now rent movies at Blockbuster! My children will never know the feeling of only having 3 or 4 things to watch. They rarely "watch TV." My daughter prefers to stream on either the iPad, or on the desktop, while my son has mastered our cable "On Demand." They always choose what to watch, whenever they want. They don't miss the first 10 minutes, or ask us to wait for a commercial, or never see an ending of a show because it is bedtime (or dinner time, or time to leave.) They will just pick up where they left off and see the ending tomorrow. Even "re-runs" doesn't mean that much to them. I'm very curious as to how we will watch TV in 10 or 20 years. Will there even be scheduled television, or will it be like "House of Cards" where all the episodes came out at once, and is just there for consumption, whenever I have time. It will drastically change how they market to us. I have to know a show exists before I will watch it, because I never "flip" anymore - too much load time with digital. I also heard a TV reviewer / commentator talking about how his job has changed. He said that before, the day after the episode, he could talk openly about the whole show. If people recorded it, they would avoid reading about it, knowing they might find something out. Now, he has to warn everyone if he is going to "spoil" the ending. And he had no idea what was acceptable when "House of Cards" came out all at once. He said he felt forced to watch all 13 hours in a row, but how does he talk about it. Some people are done, others are watching it over 2 weeks, others over 2 months. What is he allowed to say? I'm totally ![](http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/popcorn.gif) about watching the changes to this industry. One thing I know, when I'm 80 and talking to my grandkids about how when I was a kid, we had 3 networks and PBS, and we watched what was on - they will find it a very different way of life.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2013 17:55:47 GMT -5
Amazon is interesting right now. They are running their own pilots and asking for feedback on what should be picked up. I haven't watched any yet, but interesting. I wish Firefly had come out a decade later How are the new Arrested Developments? We don't have netflix at the moment...
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2013 18:08:55 GMT -5
My traditional shopping these days is pretty much limited to groceries and impulse-buy tank tops when I'm at Target.
And I basically only watch TV online anymore. Since February of last year (when I broke my antenna), I have only had my TV turned on to watch the Final Four.
I'm not ready to let go of traditional media quite yet though. I'm trying to declutter my condo so I can put it on the market, but I can't bring myself to get rid of my mix tapes.
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Post by sheilaincali on May 1, 2013 18:38:21 GMT -5
We dumped cable and have a Roku so we watch everything on demand. The bulk of the computer games that DS buys are on line through Steam. We buy and sell a good deal of things on eBay. We have Amazon Prime and buy a number of things through that thanks to the free shipping it ends up costing the same as in the store. We don't black friday shop at the stores anymore. With enough planning you can find nearly everything on line for the same sale prices. I don't buy the paper and haven't in years. We get all of our news on line. We stopped buying physical DVDs. Now if it's one we want to watch multiple times we'll buy the digital copy through Amazon.
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