Traditional TV is a changin’
It’s no secret that the way we watch TV has drastically changed in the last several years. Just in my lifetime, I’ve gone from the big huge TV with the heavy button you had to turn to get 3 stations, to the big huge TV with the remote the size of a paperback. Then we added the VCR that we couldn’t operate with its tethered remote, then a managable VCR, DVD player and now I am one of the legions of Tivo devotees. How we watch television still is, and always will be, evolving. With Tivo and DVRs, we decide when to watch our shows. It isn’t necessary to be home by 7 to catch “Must See TV” like it was a decade ago. We just punch a few buttons and go on our way. Maybe we’ll watch Ugly Betty on Sunday afternoon. Of course there are a few exceptions to this for me. I still have appointment viewing, of course, for Grey’s, Gilmore Girls and Lost. But the new trend is for networks to post their shows the day after broadcast on their websites. Now you can use your lunch break to catch up on Susan’s latest misadventure on Wisteria Lane.
So do you enjoy watching television on your PC? I personally don’t. But in a pinch, if I failed to Tivo it or even tape it, I’ll do it.
There are already plenty of web only shows out there and with YouTube growingi by leaps and bounds every day, you can pretty much see whatever you want at anytime. But me? I prefer seeing my Seattle Grace friends in the comfort of my recliner, remote in hand, ready to zip through the commercials.
Seattle Grace, Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, TV on the web
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