It's really been a while since the last time I watch Saturday Night Live live on television. Partly that's because I was in Hong Kong since 2001 up until 2007, but it's also because I don't watch TV ever since. I consume content from the web, from podcast, YouTube, Hulu.com, iTune and torrent sites.
Watching live TV becomes such a strange idea to me. In fact, the TV converter box (to convert off the air digital broadcasting signal to analog signal) that I brought using the government handed out coupon was not being used for more than 3 times since I set it up. I just can't stand being forced to watch video content at a certain specific time anymore. Instead, I am used to watch content whenever I feel like it on my 24 inch computer widescreen monitor, in whatever order I feel like, and skip whatever portion I want to.
Last night, though, after I came back from seeing a ballet perfromance and getting ready to have dinner, I overheard my roommate watching Saturday Night Live. So I talked to myself, hey, maybe I'll give live TV a try. So I did.
The result is that I probably won't do it again.
It takes much longer time to watch the show. Instead of being able to skip sketch that didn't interested me, or commerical that was boring, I have to sit through that one and a half hour. When I watched a downloaded version of the show, it took me less than 30 minutes to finish it.
On the plus side, some commercials are fun.
But the bottomline is, TV networks, you guys really need to work with the web, work with sites like Hulu.com or iTune or YouTube, and get with the Internet delivery mechanism. Otherwise, the next generation will leave you behind. Don't make the mistake music industry made.
Oh, one more thing, ***k RIAA.
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