Currently I have several ways to watch a TV program
- Wait for 7 days until the new episode is out, then watch it being cut by ads at the most crucial moments.
- Wait for it to be air and then download the torrent, which will take at least 2-3 days more based on the length of my queue, given my super fat pipe of 512/128 kbps.
- Ask someone to burn me a CD, or transfer the file from laptop to laptop, or desktop, whatever.
- Wait for the season to be over and go to a friends house to get ALL the episodes and then waste a weekend watching them.
- Wait for the DVD to come out and buy it online, then wait for it to be ship.
- Wait until they pass it on local TV.
As you can see they are ordered by how much time passes in between when it’s becomes public to the time I can watch it. Also according to the maffia only the first and last two are legal, which is fine by me but here is a list of situations that although not legal in all countries are valid by human logic.
You miss the time for #1
This is the most normal thing that happens to be I just forgot about time, and in this country there is no tivo and no one in the world has VCRs anymore, and if I did I’ll probably forgot to program it to record, assuming someone ever learned how to record with one of those.
After this happens and to be compliant with the maffia you have to wait for #5 and #6, now DVD are better this day they are only out SIX! months after the season ends! and for local TV well I’ll probably have forgotten about the series by the time they get it.
so what can I do to watch that episode without missing the whole series?
Someone just told you about this cool TV series that he is watching and it’s at episode 12 out of 20
You can start watching it at episode 13 I mean it won’t matter if you have no idea how that blond girl is or why the killer wants to take over the powers of the others.
Or you could you sit in front of your friend so he will narrate the first 12 episodes, I’m sure he will do a great job at giving you every detail the original 12 hours he spend watching it had.
You want to watch a 1995 TV series because back then you missed a lot of episodes
Here maybe #6 will help you but they are probably translated by some horribly localized (not for your country) dialect of your native language.
You want to watch something from the BBC or other channel that is not on your cable provider
Sit and wait for the DVD that will never come out.
Two programs you love have the same schedule
In their infinite wisdom the marketing teams of both companies decide their best programs should be schedule at the same time so they will take out audience from their competitors.
Now lets forget about “legal” for a minute.There is this new show in NBC it’s call The Black Donnellys. I watch the first episode and I told the story to JJ, later that day green IM me saying he wants to watch it. So I downloaded the episode so they both could see it. Conclusion I watch it legally and now I’m going to get them two more viewers for their next episode. why is that bad?Another example shows from the BBC like hustle that I love to watch and no channel transmits it where I live, by the way why o why the only give 6 episodes a year!!
Or showtime which last time I check was block for viewers outside of USA.
And of course Comedy Central which is the channel that I miss the most. And I get all the standup from a torrent.
So please if you have anything to do with TV production could you go to the maffia and tell them to stop killing your audience and start finding ways of making you win money on the new market?