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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Lost and Found

For the third season in a row, Lost had a great season ending. How do I define great? Not only did it answer my number one question, it also makes me want to seen the next season right now. I will be looking forward to the start of season five. I am amazed how they have been able to take the idea of people being stuck on an island and make it so interesting.

My guess is that next season the present will be about Jack and the Oceaninc 6 and the flash backs will be to what happened on the island after the Oceaninc 6 left.

My top 10 Lost questions

1. What happened on the island after the Oceaninc 6 left?
2. Where is Clare?
3. How did Locke die?
4. What is the Temple?
5. How will the Oceaninc 6 make it back to the island?
6. Where is the Island now?
7. What is Charles Widmore connection to the DHARMA Initiative
8. Who found the island in the first place?
9. Why does Richard not age?
10. Why is the wheel to move the Island in a frozen room?
11. What is the story about the Four Toed Statue?

Labels: ABC, list, Lost, question, tag overload, television

- Rich, 5:51 PM |

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Disney to Cox: Lets find a way to make VOD less compelling

I heard on the radio today that ABC and ESPN is working a deal to offer free VOD content to Cox cable, but commercials cannot be avoided. It is not that VOD already has enough problems. On top of that you are going to force VOD users to watch commercials.

To me this is a pure sign that TV networks do not understand the change that is going on out there. They not know understand what technologies is doing. To say there are ads and you have to watch them, that will not work. People where commercial skipping long before DVRs by going to the bathroom.

I heard someone on the radio said that these costs must be paid for. If not by commercials, they will passed onto to the viewers. Viewers are already paying too much for cable. The TV network that wins will be the one that drives down the cost of their content, find other ways to monetize their content, and lets the user be in control of the content. Making your customers watch commercials will not save you.

Labels: ABC, advertisement, Cox cable, ESPN, television, VOD

- Rich, 8:06 PM |

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