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bonniegrrl
02/18/09

In reply to Dollhouse Finds Its Audience... On iTunes
Why are people paying for it on iTunes when they can watch it for free on Hulu the next day?

Either way, I'm stoked that people are tuning in -- in more ways than the traditional TV viewing way...
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Little Time Bomb
02/18/09

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We don't even own a tv anymore, yet I don't feel like we miss anything we care about. It's a shame media companies haven't caught up. As long as the quality is good I would watch commercials in on-line content.
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nutbastard
02/18/09

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as others have mentioned, torrents for this sort of thing go up like an hour after first broadcast.

IMO, seed count / tracker rankings are the nielson ratings of the 21st century.
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evildead1971
02/18/09

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the networks panic when they dont get the numbers on their channels cause they get paid by companies to run their commercials. i'm willing to say that 5-10 years from now, internet tv will have as many commercials as network does now. 10-15 years from now, DVD's will have commercial breaks as well. you go to the movies today and you have to sit through commercials
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nutbastard
02/18/09

@evildead1971:

then in 50 years, everyone will realize that excessive marketing doesn't make people buy shit, and is a complete waste of money.

if you have a cool product, last time i checked there are thousands of blogs and website that will, in essence, advertise it for free. the catch? marketers don't get to put a bullshit spin on everything - garbage is exposed as such by impartial reviewers.

i would gladly pay $20 a year to never see commercials again. why $20? because that's pretty much the high end of what i spend annually on purchases that are prompted by advertising.

the other $31,980 goes to shit i already know about, already need, and already want.
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YourTechSupport
02/18/09

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I torrented it about two hours after it aired. (Had to get my Galactifix first).
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
02/18/09

@YourTechSupport: Joss will hunt you down and exact his revenge.
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Slatz_Grobnik
02/18/09

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It's the 'any press is good press' effect. Admittedly, I had no interest in watching it, as what I expected was it treated in a warm bundle of Whedon love. Hearing people not like it made me hunt it out (not on iTunes, but all the same) to find out whether or not the critical meh was justified.
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bookwench
02/18/09

@Slatz_Grobnik: And your verdict was?
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Slatz_Grobnik
02/18/09

@bookwench: I found it justified. While not a miss, I felt like most of the show was the show telling me "hey, here's something to be interested in!!!"
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Log1c
02/18/09

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I think its finally people realizing they can watch shows whenever they want rather then when the idiots at Fox decide to schedule shows.

So you'll get more people to watch it who would otherwise pass it bye.
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Colander
02/18/09

@Log1c: Yeah, I watched it on Hulu [via gawker] the day after.
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lilbobbytables
02/18/09

@Log1c: FOX picked THE worst time for the show. I'm really not surprised that people are finding other ways to watch it.
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Smeagol92055
02/18/09

@Log1c: But all Fox is going to see is that they don't have the numbers watching it in the timeslot, panic, and cancel it. Same thing they're going to do with Terminator, even though the show's real numbers are online.

Fox, for all it's claims of being a huge media outlet, isn't really; it has a few very specific ways of delivering that content, and its executives haven't realized that the Internet is actually a viable way to deliver content as well. Someone's not completely asleep, of course, because we can find the shows online, but their number crunchers obviously don't take the online numbers into their calculations... and POOF, g'bye, a couple of shows that could have made it a couple of seasons otherwise.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
02/18/09

@Smeagol92055: I guess Fox hasn't realized yet that the "hot" timeslots really don't mean poop since everything is easily accessible online.
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sweetchuck
02/18/09

@Log1c: Yeah, I watched it on Hulu sunday night, I was too busy drinking friday night to watch TV! Ditto with Tuesdays. And sometimes Thursday's lineup. And of course Saturdays. And the occasional Sunday, especially in nice weather.

Hulu - the drinker enabler!
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crashedpc - Haifisch
02/18/09

@sweetchuck: I'll drink to that. It's Wednesday morning! Huzzah!
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inabook
02/18/09

@Log1c: I timeshift everything. I usually watch on DVR at my boyfriend's place, since we liek the same sorts of shows.
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