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elizabethv
6/27/2016 9:24:15 AM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
A hidden group of Millenials wanting the quality of which you speak do exist. (I know a couple, with vinyls taking up entire walls in their houses.) I'm not actually one of them. -Sorry. For me, I have way too much going on to demand quality. Though constant and seemingly never-ending buffering will get me to jump ship like a sailor on fire. With two kids who need to watch their own shows (Can we say "Yo Gabba Gabba" on endless repeat) or being at work and having other things to do but still having this desire for background noise, because it's the middle of the night and everything else creeps me out. (Can we say run-on sentence.) :-) I want to be able to watch things, but I don't typically have the time to sit down and enjoy anything I want to watch in any kind of quality, unless I've specifically scheduled myself to get to a movie theater. So if I have to sacrifice quality in all of that - so be it.
dcawrey
6/27/2016 11:00:47 AM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
In terms of which device I like use, I think laptops are still the best right now. Smartphones are too small for meaningful viewing. Tablets are simply a waste of money when a laptop can do so much more. Remember when we all were saying tablets would replace laptops? I don't think that's going to happen.
JohnBarnes
6/28/2016 8:07:56 AM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
ElizabethV, you make an interesting point about vinyl-clinging Millennials. Wonder if there are any substantial number insisting on film rather than digital images? I know some visual artists who prefer film but that's mostly a matter of the different manipulations and hand-skills needed to make it work, not its precision/resolution.
freehe
6/28/2016 10:17:45 PM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
dcawrey, I agree.
freehe
6/28/2016 10:20:07 PM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
JohnBarnes, I want to know where the higher quality demand is coming from also. I don't believe consumers demand high quality as much as companies profess they do. Companies use advertising to convince consumers they high quality is needed or required and it is not. Many companies produce decent quality content without having to pay for Hi-Def.
freehe
6/28/2016 10:23:06 PM
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Video Quailty Bigger Issue
Consumers may be watching more OTT video but that does not mean they watch or need higher quality or hi-def.
Buffering delays are still a hugh problem. It would be great if companies solved the buffering delays problem versus focusing on providing hi-def. I prefer to watch an average quality video without buffering delays than a hi-def one with delays.
Since consumers want a la carte prices give it to them. Customers are no longer loyal so why not give them want they want to keep them as customers versus giving them what some exective believes they want.
dlr5288
6/28/2016 11:22:56 PM
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Re: Video Quailty Bigger Issue
Yes good points.
I hate the buffering. I think since video is becoming so big and popular that video buffering should be fixed asap. Or at least made better so it can buffer quicker.
JohnBarnes
6/28/2016 11:31:35 PM
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Re: Video Quailty Bigger Issue
The big problem with a la carte is what used to happen to record stores and bookshops before the coming of the big chains (and long before Amazon): the very short tail. In a real free market, with limited shelf space, the profits would be in reducing the list to a few consistent best-sellers. But it's a multiplayer prisonr's dilemma: if every shop did that, they would all make the most they could at every point on the curve, but they would also occupy a much lower part of the curve than if there were a much longer tail (i.e. greater diversity).
This is the same problem faced by video channels today. True a la carte would result in most households having a movie/entertainment aggregator channel, a sports channel, a gossip channel, maybe a news channel they agreed with, traffic, and weather. Nearly everyone would want to have more available, but they wouldn't pay enough for the "more" to justify stealing bandwidth from the really popular channels. (The law of limited supply in entertainment is Price's Law: If everybody doesn't want it, nobody gets it).
Record companies and publishers used to solve the problem by requiring stores to take mixed boxes of titles by unknowns along with the really popular stuff they wanted. The old Big 3 networks had an informal rule of programming their crappiest stuff against each other's prestige projects. And to get ESPN nowadays, you have to accept the Giraffe Racing Channel ...
The reason not to give everyone a la carte pricing is that 1) they'd like it for themselves, 2) but they'd have almost nothing to choose from.
elizabethv
6/29/2016 11:15:26 PM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
@dcawrey - I think the laptop vs. tablet war was lost when tablets seemed to be slower to come up with the same capabilities and vunctionality as a laptop before laptops learned to just become smaller and lighter. To be fair, my husband loves his tablet, but mostly for movie watching late night (upstairs right now) after the kids have gone to bed. (My kids will sleep through a freight train, but not someone watching TV on our television downstairs.) I still prefer my laptop, even though it's old, and heavier than newer versions. But then I'm slow to part with anything electronic, except cell phones.
elizabethv
6/29/2016 11:17:50 PM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
@freehe - is it possible those who demand quality are simply a part of the vocal minority? If you don't demand quality, you're probably not as likely to comment about anything, other than possibly wanting more content and greater access. But if you truly want quality, that's more than likely going to be a topic you're willing to vocalize to any and everyone. So perhaps the media companies are hearing demand for more quality, it just isn't really from the majority. We're too busy mumbling at our phones......
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