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Originally Posted by kiwidude
Interesting way of thinking about it, appreciate your comment. I guess the difference I find between the two is that I rarely find TV to be an engaging experience - it is intentionally disrupted every 10 mins with advertisements, it often spends significant parts of the show recapping things for the sake of people who can't remember what happened a week ago etc. Which is why lots of people prefer to wait for the DVDs to come out and then watch a series back to back  . And how many people enjoy breaks (of any kind) in a movie, which I would equate a really compelling short read to. Its an interesting comparison, I hadn't thought about it that way so thanks for the comment. |
Fully agree with that, especially about the ad breaks, they do ruin the flow, mainly why I subscribe to a movie channel/dvd service
probably a better example of this is a dvd I got for my birthday, it was Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, 4 episodes of 1.5 hours each (no ad breaks but each episode does have a few min catch up at start)
not watched this yet, as I am reading the book first, but I read about an hour of the book each night, during the day I will read something different
when I get to watching the DVD, It will probably take a couple of weeks, 2 episodes each week on different days, watching other films/tv series in between
it's hard to describe it really, but it gives me variety
"looking forward to reading a bit more of X book tonight"
"looking forward to next part of series Y on TV tonight"
OT:This is also why I like tv schedules instead of download/on demand services