Tuesday, December 06, 2005
iTunes Expands Video Offerings
iTunes Music Store now offers more television shows than ever before. Of course, since it previously offered only four or five shows, this might not seem like such a big deal. In fact, though, they’ve expanded in a way that I would consider significant--and made my lust for the big hard-drive iPod grow deeper.
“What new shows?” you ask.
Monk, Lost, vintage Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries, The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Knight Rider, Law & Order, and more. The addition of the older content (still limited in scope) is intriguing. How long before I can download all the crappy TV shows I used to love from my youth?
The danger here isn’t that they’ll find an audience; the danger is that they are making it even easier for people to be passive slaves to their entertainment devices. I fear for our creative future.
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You know, I think my kids are pretty creative, and their exposure to television is (and has been) extremely limited. don’t know when families find the time to watch television. They do use the computer to read news, blogs, play games, etc. but that is limited to 30 minutes per day.
I think myself fairly creative and I watched a crap load of tv when I was kid. So, how is that I watched too much, they watch too little, and yet the results yielded are similar? I am not sure. An article I read this year in USA Today was very interesting, and honestly, quite challenging to my parenting paradigm.
Of course, I am sure a new study is on the verge of publication stating the exact opposite things…