so what would you watch if "Chuck" wasn't on? How would you go about finding another show? Channels exsist to group shows into an organized list. You've described a new method of watching TV and I think it's great that it suits your need but I don't think that it would work for the masses. Shoot, most of us with DVR's don't even watch live television we live in our previously recorded shows. :-)
Obviously the mythical box that would do this would group shows into "Now Playing" and "Coming up later", so it would be easy to tell if a show is viewable now or not.
The point is I don't care about channels, I care about *shows*, and I suspect most TV viewers are the same. In an age of metadata giving us endlessly malleable information, why should TV be packaged into channels anymore? Makes no sense.
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so what would you watch if "Chuck" wasn't on? How would you go about finding another show? Channels exsist to group shows into an organized list. You've described a new method of watching TV and I think it's great that it suits your need but I don't think that it would work for the masses. Shoot, most of us with DVR's don't even watch live television we live in our previously recorded shows. :-)
Obviously the mythical box that would do this would group shows into "Now Playing" and "Coming up later", so it would be easy to tell if a show is viewable now or not.
The point is I don't care about channels, I care about *shows*, and I suspect most TV viewers are the same. In an age of metadata giving us endlessly malleable information, why should TV be packaged into channels anymore? Makes no sense.