News Discovery isn't on TV because no-one would watch it

[Greg Cox]

I confess I still prefer to watch TV on my TV . . . as God intended.

As opposed to my laptop.

But to get back to my original point: that's my problem, not STAR TREK's.

STAR TREK should not worry overmuch about Luddites like me. If the future of TV is streaming . . . warp speed ahead. You go where the audience is going . . . and the rest of us will just have to catch up or get left behind.

 

[cylkoth]

A Roku box brings internet tv...to your tv.

Problem solved.

 

[urbandefault]

I admit I'm having too much fun here, when I really need to be writing.

On a laptop, for the record, which is only four years old.

But even that I was forced into getting when I found out that Warner Bros. wouldn't allow me to take a copy of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES script off the studio lot, thereby compelling me to get something portable I could write on in Burbank . . . .

Before that I was making do with my old Dell PC, which had replaced my trusty old Compaq computer many years earlier . ...

It usually takes something urgent--like a new STAR TREK tv series--to get me to upgrade.

(See how I deftly brought us back On-Topic?)

Congratulations! You've opened a veritable Pandora's Box of distraction!

Or to quote Chandler Bing, "Can open! Worms everywhere!"

 

[Guy Gardener]

"The Odd Couple", Chandler's new show is growing on me.

Joey's new show "Man with a Plan" is dog poop.

 

[RJDiogenes]

CBS All Access is available on desktop and notebook computers, Google Chromecast, Roku devices, PlayStation 4, XBox One, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, most Android TV devices, some smart TVs, and mobile devices. It's available on quite a few more devices than just computers, smart TVs, or mobile devices. A Chromecast, Roku, or Amazon stick will cost you about $50.

Yeah, I don't think I'll have a problem. I'll figure it out when the show actually exists.

I also think you don't really know if you like something or not, till you tried it. I didn't have a smart phone till 2012, now I find its a very useful tool and I don't think Netflix is hard to use at all.

This is true. I begrudgingly got an iPhone only because my Father was dying and I needed to always be in touch with Mom-- now it's my constant companion (and I'm ignoring my Sister's attempts to get me to upgrade).

I personally see great value in scheduled TV. It promotes the habit of watching a certain show at a certain time.

It helps me know what the hell day it is.

I confess I still prefer to watch TV on my TV . . . as God intended.

Same here, except I believe it's the inevitable result of natural forces shaping technological evolution. However, I have come to love laying comfortably in bed and watching stuff on my Kindle.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I started watching TV on Lap tops with Buffy season 3 in the 90s, over a year before it was due to air in NZ, and then, finally a year later, half way through the season broad cast, the ratings sucked so hard that TV3 benched Buffy to replay Cricket highlights for 6 months.

Thanks Obama.

 

[BillJ]

Netflix, I have been assured, does not give a damn if we share our password/login with a few friends/family, or our friends/family share their password/login with us.

Netflix charges us an additional couple of bucks a month for more than two logins.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Two logins is enough to keep both your wife and mistress happy.

 

[Greg Cox]

It helps me know what the hell day it is. .

There is that. Lord knows that's how I orient myself during the week, especially since I work from home.

"Let's see, last night was SUPERGIRL, so today must be Tuesday . . . . "

 

[John Clark]

There is that. Lord knows that's how I orient myself during the week, especially since I work from home.

"Let's see, last night was SUPERGIRL, so today must be Tuesday . . . . "

Oh, thank god, I'm not the only one who does stuff like that

 

[KelisThePoet]

Even when it's not practically necessary, it makes life more fun to orient one's sense of time around favorite TV shows. I know I look forward to Monday as "Scorpion Day" a lot more than as "first day of another work week."

 

[jaime]

I organise my entire history this way because I am EXTREMELY crap with dates. Sometimes I only remember for sure how old I am by doing some maths trickery with the digits in the the year which works cos of when I was born. Everything else is worked out by its relation to various TV show anniversaries, probably because I at least read about those. Usually Who and Trek.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

I confess I still prefer to watch TV on my TV . . . as God intended.

As opposed to my laptop.

But to get back to my original point: that's my problem, not STAR TREK's.

STAR TREK should not worry overmuch about Luddites like me. If the future of TV is streaming . . . warp speed ahead. You go where the audience is going . . . and the rest of us will just have to catch up or get left behind.

Since you were forced to replace the tv recently, you can probably actually do that very easily, while still having the ease of running things with the computer. All modern tvs and laptops have HDMI ports. All you have to do is plug a cable into your laptop and your tv and flip through the channels till you find the right one and the tv will show everything that's on the computer. No further setup or programming required.

 

[jaime]

Since you were forced to replace the tv recently, you can probably actually do that very easily, while still having the ease of running things with the computer. All modern tvs and laptops have HDMI ports. All you have to do is plug a cable into your laptop and your tv and flip through the channels till you find the right one and the tv will show everything that's on the computer. No further setup or programming required.

Not the channels. The inputs. A button with a screen with an arrow overlayed on it. And odds on yup, your laptop probably has one, it's of an age with mine and I put Star Trek Online up on TV so little one can captain and yell at me to fire phasers. The true joy of parenthood is hearing a 4 year old yell 'now mister daddy! Quantum torpedoes full spread!'
They better make Discovery at least have a family friendly option, whatever we end up watching it on.

 

[RJDiogenes]

There is that. Lord knows that's how I orient myself during the week, especially since I work from home.

"Let's see, last night was SUPERGIRL, so today must be Tuesday . . . . "

"If it's SHIELD, this must be Tuesday..." Good idea for a movie.

 

[Greg Cox]

Meanwhile, I just got yesterday's newspaper today. Really.

It's like the world is trying to confuse me!

 

[Jedi_Master]

Meanwhile, I just got yesterday's newspaper today. Really.

It's like the world is trying to confuse me!

Wasn't that the premise of some show back in the 90's - this guy had an orange cat that would bring him tomorrow's newspaper and he had 24 hours to "fix" whatever bad news it revealed?

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Wasn't that the premise of some show back in the 90's - this guy had an orange cat that would bring him tomorrow's newspaper and he had 24 hours to "fix" whatever bad news it revealed?

"Early Edition" starring Kyle Chandler.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Late Edition was even less successful.

True conversation from a trip to Ireland:

"I'd like to buy a newspaper, please."

"Would you be wanting yesterday's or today's?"

"Well... today's."

"Then come back tomorrow, please."

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Meanwhile, I just got yesterday's newspaper today. Really.

It's like the world is trying to confuse me!

What is this "newspaper" you refer to?

I suppose the hardest (or at least most tedious) part of setting up something like a Roku or other smart box to connect online services to your TV is that you have to enter in your Wifi password (or a network cable) but once done it's as easy in my mind as using a DVD player or, heaven forbid, a VCR. Anyone ever have an old enough VCR where you actually had to tune in the channels with dials?

I'm catching up on Lucifer on Hulu right now and it's awesome that it just picks up where I left off and starts playing. I actually have to hit a button to stop it from automatically playing the next episode when the current one finishes.

As far as CBS All Access goes, as much as I hate paying for something just for one show, it's the commercials that stick in my craw. I don't know if I could bring myself to pay for that. It's bad enough with cable, that's the whole point of paying for premium services in my mind is to get away from those.