They Ruined TV
Every March on the third Thursday of the month we host our annual two-day Strategy & Tactics meeting in our conference room. If you’re paying attention, you might note that those dates coincide with the opening rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament and wonder if that’s a coincidence given we also have a large smart TV there.
I plead the fifth.
But even if we were watching basketball, it was probably the case that we missed most of the first half of the first game trying to get the appropriate streaming experience set up.
I appreciate that streaming is impressive technology, but imagine if, for one monthly fee, you had access to all of the content you were interested in instead of having to figure out what lives on which platform and in which tier. And imagine if you could just turn it on and watch. And quickly flip between games. And didn’t have to login via a wonky UX, wait for an authentication code, and sit through a 60-second ad even though the game was live.
Oh, and imagine if, when what you wanted to watch hadn’t started yet, there was still...something on instead of elevator music. And that when it ended, something else, instead of elevator music, came on.
That would be amazing.
Someone should figure this out.
– Tim
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