I keep on doing it. I miss the finals. X Factor, that dancing show, the calendar for Countryfile, Masterchef. I'm just a bad tvizen. And I rarely blog, tweet or Facebook (is that a verb) about it in real time - where is my second screen?
For someone who lives, breathes and exists for TV I'm really quite a bad viewer.
In the TV industry the periods about which people care about content are called 'windows'. Once upon a time a 'release window' for a Hollywood movie would be half a year. Now it's around thirty seconds.
The releases for 24 and Game of Thrones have to be released globally at the same time to prevent the pirates. Indeed, the release of a drama now has the, er... drama, of a major live sports event.
The problem is that I don't care very much about windows. Even with sport, I'm finding myself increasingly timeshifting. I used to need to know the result in real time. But unless you're IMing your buddies about it, why ? The result isn't going to change.
The value of content is shifting. A sense of occasion used to be worth a fortune. Now the ability to watch a box set in an evening, or a week, is the pre-eminent right.
Of course, this has followed the development of content formats. Films used to be an hour and a half. Now they're more likely to be two and a half hours long and, as major directors move towards box set creation, the value point in the industry is moving.
I suspect this explains much of the feeding frenzy over TV companies being bought out by the majors. It's all about not being defenestrated.
For someone who lives, breathes and exists for TV I'm really quite a bad viewer.
In the TV industry the periods about which people care about content are called 'windows'. Once upon a time a 'release window' for a Hollywood movie would be half a year. Now it's around thirty seconds.
The releases for 24 and Game of Thrones have to be released globally at the same time to prevent the pirates. Indeed, the release of a drama now has the, er... drama, of a major live sports event.
The problem is that I don't care very much about windows. Even with sport, I'm finding myself increasingly timeshifting. I used to need to know the result in real time. But unless you're IMing your buddies about it, why ? The result isn't going to change.
The value of content is shifting. A sense of occasion used to be worth a fortune. Now the ability to watch a box set in an evening, or a week, is the pre-eminent right.
Of course, this has followed the development of content formats. Films used to be an hour and a half. Now they're more likely to be two and a half hours long and, as major directors move towards box set creation, the value point in the industry is moving.
I suspect this explains much of the feeding frenzy over TV companies being bought out by the majors. It's all about not being defenestrated.