What's all this TV archiving (recording) about anyway?

[halfpipe]

Is there any profit in this?
I mean besides maybe recording a tv program while your out for later viewing, Whats the appeal of recording days on end of tv programming?
There must be an angle or point but for the life of me I can't see it
What am I missing?

[BaysideBas]

If you have to ask...

[bits]

halfpipe wrote:

Is there any profit in this?
I mean besides maybe recording a tv program while your out for later viewing, Whats the appeal of recording days on end of tv programming?
There must be an angle or point but for the life of me I can't see it
What am I missing?
We, my family of four adults, enjoy watching a variety of shows when we want to watch them but even more importantly we really enjoy watching them commercial free. No skipping, no fast forwarding....the commercials are simply gone. 95% of what is recorded is deleted after viewing, the other 5% is saved for another viewing and then deleted.

After a life time of watching/tolerating endless commercials, commercial free viewing is a real treat, something I will do for as long as possible.... it IS worth the small effort in the collective opinion of our family!

[Lester Burnham]

Is there any profit in this?

Why "profit"?

Does it appear a commercial endeavour?


I mean besides maybe recording a tv program while your out for later viewing, Whats the appeal of recording days on end of tv programming?
There must be an angle or point but for the life of me I can't see it
What am I missing?

Then don't - quite simple, really.

[halfpipe]

Ad-Free TV seems a wonderful thing right?
If you take the long view and if everyone did it there'd be nothing worth removing the ads from on air.
These ads pay for the movie or whatever to be there in the first place. Remove the incentive from the advertisers and they'll find other ways to spend their budgets leaving us with reruns of barney.
Ads are really quite good if you watch them as 'mini shows'.
I love this VideoReDo+ because it's a great straight forward vid editor for both SD and HD and there is a need for it in the 'Original-Content' world and I hope that it's feature development will lean toward producing content rather than reducing content. Got to pay the bills though so go with the flow but keep in mind where it all comes from.
Bruce

[bits]

Ad-Free TV seems a wonderful thing right?
If you take the long view and if everyone did it there'd be nothing worth removing the ads from on air.
These ads pay for the movie or whatever to be there in the first place. Remove the incentive from the advertisers and they'll find other ways to spend their budgets leaving us with reruns of barney.
Ads are really quite good if you watch them as 'mini shows'.
I love this VideoReDo+ because it's a great straight forward vid editor for both SD and HD and there is a need for it in the 'Original-Content' world and I hope that it's feature development will lean toward producing content rather than reducing content. Got to pay the bills though so go with the flow but keep in mind where it all comes from.
Bruce
I for one would pay to have commercial free viewing, I mean in addition to what I already pay for TV...ie my monthly cable bill!

Commercials are NOT mini shows they are commercials, they are companies hawking their products in an attempt to get you to buy or support stuff you do not need or want. Why not give the viewer the choice?

[BaysideBas]

Ads are really quite good if you watch them as 'mini shows'.
Do you realize that you can just as easily use VRD to save these "mini shows" for your continued enjoyment?

[Lester Burnham]

Ad-Free TV seems a wonderful thing right?

Indeed - BBC channels in the UK are "supposed" to be ad-free, due to the unique manner in which the BBC is funded.

Plus, I already pay my dues, regarding TV viewing, both in terms of license fee, and digital satellite subscription.


If you take the long view and if everyone did it there'd be nothing worth removing the ads from on air.

Huh? How is that taking the long view? Most viewers wouldn't even consider editing any recorded or captured video.


These ads pay for the movie or whatever to be there in the first place.

Not for things I record from BBC channels, nor from movie channels that I subcribe to. My license fee or subscription does.


Remove the incentive from the advertisers and they'll find other ways to spend their budgets leaving us with reruns of barney.

Now see that's what happens, when you base your argument / point on a faulty premise, then continue to extrapolate from that point - you get an entirely specious proposition.


Ads are really quite good if you watch them as 'mini shows'.

Fine - you watch them, and you use them in any DVDs you author / record, from TV.


I love this VideoReDo+ because it's a great straight forward vid editor for both SD and HD and there is a need for it in the 'Original-Content' world and I hope that it's feature development will lean toward producing content rather than reducing content.

eh?


Got to pay the bills though so go with the flow but keep in mind where it all comes from.
Bruce

And that's also what happens when you make assumptions about either the market (which I've already commented on the hugely bogus proposition you've made), or how people fund the TV they watch.

[BaysideBas]

And an even more specious argument is that watching the ads somehow pays for the programming. I've got news for you, all consumers buying the advertised products, even if they never watch TV or even if they don't own a TV, pay for the programming. Maybe some refunds are due those consumers, no?