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Television 2015: Is There Really Too Much TV?
If you started on Jan. 1, 2016, and caught up with one scripted 2015 prime-time TV series per day, you could not finish by the end of the calendar year. Assign Jan. 1 to Mad Men, Jan. 2 to Orange Is the New Black, Jan. 3 to Modern Family and so on, knock out a whole show every single day, week in and week out, on Saturdays and Sundays and Flag Day and your birthday, and you will not make it. You won't even be close. That's how much television there is.
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Ridiculous premise.
Are there too many books? I can't read them all.
Too many websites? I can't visit them all.
More content simply means more choice.
The article touches on that. In fact, "too many books" is almost a quote from a little over halfway through.
I'm more concerned about the railing against Netflix being closed with their numbers. As a consumer, I don't really give a shit how many views a particular show got. I rarely, if ever, use viewership as a metric for picking something to watch. More often I'm using ratings from critics or aggregate ratings from other consumers, both of which are fully available for everything Netflix makes.
Even beyond that, the typical method for collecting viewership counts still works perfectly fine for Netflix shows. It isn't like they have ever been accurately recording what you watched on TV every night. They have always used a survey method and extrapolated that to the entire viewership. The same could easily be done for Netflix programming by a third party, if they so desired.
Exactly. I get my money's worth out of my Netflix subscription, I probably have a solid years worth on my list, and it grows faster than I can watch it. Finding more interesting stuff to watch is easy, from internal suggestions to IMDB lists. And the fact that I'll never live long enough to be able to watch it all. Abundance of riches and all that.