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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
TV is on the fast track for a rude awakening in the near future. How many regular TV watchers now have PVR's (DVR's in the States, Tivo by brand name)? How many of those people actually watch commercials?
So what happens when a critical mass of viewers have PVR's and simply skip over the commercials, like I do? What advertisers are going to pay to place ads on TV then? Who pays to make the programming then?
So is broadcast TV dead?
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If it fails to make programs people want to watch, and pay of their own will, the faster it dies, the better. As long as no one coerces people to pay, why would this be a problem?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
The tax payer? Consider the BBC, for example; that's how they are funded.
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Yes, unfortunately, more and more "artists" decide to become parasites in this way. We have state funding "culture" here, and people have to pay in taxes, despite the fact that no one wants to watch what such people want to show.