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Originally Posted by Rochard
One of the reasons TV viewing is down isn't because of a lack of a market, but also because there is so much more of it - Cable, that is.
I'm not nearly half as old as Baddog and I still remember no cable, and only getting three channels. TV wasn't nearly as interesting because there was only three channels - NBC, ABC, and PBS. Now my cable has two hundred channels. I no longer watch NBC, ABC, or CBS because I have ten zillion choices other than them.
It's very much the same thing with our industry. In 2000 there was "x" amount of porn sites. Now there is "x" amount of porn sites times 10 billion. We have completely over saturated porn - there is so much of it.
This all started with the DVD market. It got to the point where our industry was launching hundreds of new dvds each month. With that kind of volume, no one had enough shelf space to put up new dvds no less the old ones.
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I agree. I'm 39 and when I was a kid (up until I was out of high school) there was no cable TV where I lived. So you got about 4 channels that had good reception and a couple others that came in half assed. Now the average cable package seems to have about 100+ channels in it.
Hell, when I was a kid cartoons were on for about 4 hours saturday morning. Now there are at least 5 channels that are nothing but kids programing.