🍿 2022-03-26 08:56:27 – Paris/France.
Salvation. I'm old in that I grew up in a household that once had to watch everything on TV because there was a lack of equipment to play recordings on demand. To imagine! Luckily, someone then invented VHS.
Unfortunately, our first turntable had huge metal keys, and the record one refused to budge unless you put pretty much your full weight on it. Still, the unit allowed us to load tapes bought after much thought from local Woolworths and – sometimes – even watch them. That's assuming he doesn't fancy a snack during the Star Wars trash compactor scene and chew tape, adding thrilling and totally undesirable levels of destructive realism.
Every now and then new technology would appear, promising to rid us of the horror of what had gone before – but then adding its own idiocy. The DVDs were durable and offered immediate access to episodes and scenes without you having to plod through a flimsy tape. But because studio executives are sociopaths, they added pre-roll ads and pre-roll threats ("You wouldn't steal a car!"), unskippable trailers, unskippable animations, and non-skippable warnings on commentary tracks you'd never listen to have opinions that – shock! – might not correspond to the company that made the film.
PVRs came next, in theory smartly saving entire series onto a hard drive, ready for viewing. The reality was that you'd end up with random snippets of shows just as often - assuming the thing was recording anything and the hard drive didn't decide to shut down, making sad little clicks until until you get him out of his misery.
Then - signal: marching band - the Streaming arrived ! Instead of recording anything, all you want to watch is just here. Find what you want, press play and you can bask in TV and movie bliss. Except that, just as technology has evolved, the aforementioned sociopathic executives, whose descendants now live in houses of gold, laugh maniacally at the new horrors of user experience they can inflict on an unsuspecting audience.
At least, I guess that's the case. That would certainly explain the interface atrocities you have to fight with when you have the audacity to want to watch something on a live TV service. Streaming which you are paying for.
There are simple things like recently watched shows that hide every time you open an app, forcing you to search for them, like an elderly person who is Of course they left their keys somewhere here. Then there are the pre-rolls. Sometimes these are just irritating, making you think that if you wanted to watch ads for other shows, you'd plug your DVD player back in. But sometimes they're catastrophically stupid, airing a trailer for a later season of a show you've just started.
When you want to watch something new, the service gets coy. To hide the size of the catalogs, the services of Streaming broadcast in arbitrary groups – Romantic comedies to watch on Thursdays with a pet mongoose – rather than a basic list. And when you've finished a show, the credits shrink to the size of an atom, as you're prompted to instantly move on to the next thing. Want to see who composed a mind-blowing mid-show track? Want to watch the post-credits scene from the latest Marvel movie? Difficult.
The mind gets confused. At this rate, the Streaming will soon echo DVDs. You'll press play and have to sit in a trailer you don't want to see and then listen to someone below that you wouldn't steal a car, and therefore don't steal a TV show in Streaming by giving your password to your friends. At least the services of Streaming don't randomly eat the show you're watching - although it's probably only a matter of time.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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