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On Tuesday, my journalist friend Paul, a Reverb producer, and I were having one of those “What If…?” (Marvel TM) conversations. We were imagining a world where television was metered. Instead of being able to watch what you want, when you want, and for however long you want, we were dreaming of television that was billed like a utility. The charges would be hourly, with higher fees for peak times. Let’s play this game on RPad.TV!
Obviously the value of television commercials would drastically change or cease to exist, but nobody really cares about that. For the most part, the completely impossible metered-television dream would improve lives. While some people would spend more time on other forms of frivolity, others would spend time doing more productive things. Adults would spend more time with their families, children would spend time playing outside, and nerds (like me) would…read more comics, play more games, etc. Ha!
How do you think metered television would change the world and your world, specifically? Suspend your disbelief and leave a comment on this “What If…?” below (please!).
As long as this only relates to regular pay TV I could see this impacting my Netflix fees. Either Netflix will introduce ads, or a higher pay tier sans ads.