The best part of FAST TV is the choice it takes away
Broadcast television gave anyone the ability to watch TV. Since anyone could watch, the business model became advertising. With advertising, you want to maximize the number of eyeballs you can get which lead to lowest common denominator content or broadcast TV
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Home | ColossusQuasar App
The passive engagement of ambient television is a boon for streaming services, which just want you to keep binging so that you feel your subscription is justified.
Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
All these changes make me crave the opposite: a fixed, stable, reliable way of accessing whatever culture you want. Which is exactly what earlier forms of collecting and consuming culture once offered. We took that stability for granted.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
traditional video on demand systems, and/or online viewing).