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Originally Posted by crockett
Hulu offers up only a very small variety of shows and often only a handful of episodes. I don't watch a lot of TV, but when I browse through the selection of TV shows on Hulu they all seem like very dated series with only a handful of newer shows.
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Buy a season pass for newer shows on iTunes (for example). Then you'll be no more than a day or so behind those who watch them on television.
There are plenty of ways to get good up to date content on the Internet, you need to pay for it.
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Originally Posted by crockett
Do these companies not understand the money they could be making? I can't imagine it's any sort of govt regulations as stations from other countries don't do it either. Anyone have any idea why TV stations seem to run scared from the web?
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Most TV stations embrace the web, especially in countries like Australia, they also offer catch up TV for viewers in many instances.
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Originally Posted by mozadek
People on the internet have a sense of entitlement that whatever media they receive on the internet should be free. Which is why it's hard to monetize a TV station on the Internet and north worth the lost of revenue.
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Yeah the sense of entitlement reeks through each of his posts.
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Originally Posted by crockett
Man are you a self entitled prick. I hate to inform you that yes I have a subscription to netflix and that's the very reason for this topic. I find that netflix is great when it comes to archive of old shows but they are very slow to get new stuff in most cases.
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Various ways you can get shows more quickly:
1. iTunes and similar services. Buy a season pass to the show, download and enjoy.
2. Wait for the DVD Box set and buy that.
3. Watch it on TV, subscribe to the channel or expand your Pay TV subscriptions
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Originally Posted by crockett
Cable/Sat companies are regional.. (Sat of course has a bit broader coverage to remote areas)
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Correct and this is precisely why shows aren't just released onto the Internet at the same time for everyone. Different countries & regions show programming at different times. They're not going to cannibalise their own product by making it globally available before regions have had the chance to put it to air.