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[annarti]

I feel somewhat proud of that. Honestly, if the damn things aired in reasonable time (I'm talking within 24 hours of US/UK airing) I'd be happy to not waste my bandwidth on such things. Maybe, some day in the dim distant future, the media will catch up with the internet and TV will just sorta peter out. TV ON DEMAND YEAH~

And on that note, *downloads latest GoT*

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[kamara.livejournal.com]

Our on demand services are slowly getting better, but there's still the issue where we have insanely low broadband caps. I've just upgraded from 30 - 60gb (and actually got it for cheaper). But we're only 9 days into the current cycle and I've used nearly 14gig already, and that's actually on streamed things from catch-up services and similar, aka, the stuff we *are* allowed to view online.

Big name shows like GoT have a 24~ hour delay here, it's aired Mondays here, and Glee (which I've stopped watching for so many reasons) has a 2 day delay I think. I remember shows like Lost and Buffy had a pretty quick turn around too.

What I'd like is a truly on demand service and ISPs to recognise this. Caps are in place to strangle prolific filesharers etc, but with so many catchup services existing which are perfectly legit, they need to recognise this and do something about it.

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[annarti.livejournal.com]

Mostly, stuff here is delayed by at least three or four weeks, some things by months if they air at all (we only just picked up QI two years ago, I think) and you get excited by things that only air a week late. The Doctor Who Christmas special usually airs in late January and the last Top Gear Christmas special didn't air until about March or April. When you've got people overseas who you want to watch the show with and, you know, discuss the thing with them, impossible to do it legit until your people in the UK have finished the season and forget what happened back in episode 3.

At least you live in a country where catchup services make sense :< It's great if your country produces good TV, but tbh there's next to bugger-all Australian content that's worth watching. The vast majority of Aussie content is reality shows with maybe one or two scripted dramas per network. Of those, the only decent stuff tends to come on the ABC, which is government run and therefore unmetered download anyway, no matter who your ISP is, so that's nice.

Really, TV networks should move into being ISPs, that I think would make an impact. Unmetered for their own stuff and shows they licence from overseas, and then let people actually put the international stuff up within the hour of it airing in said country. As someone commented on that news story, we can get live sports events aired with satellite delay being the only delay. There is no reason at all for delaying TV shows by months. Downloading is the future, dickheads. Get used to it.