April 20, 2005

The Need for Personalized Television - I Want My My TV

The long tail - the long tail - the long tail - you hear it over and over everyday. I can agree - good TV is hard to find, and I would love to be able to get whatever niche TV I want everyday but - at what cost?

eHomeUpgrade | The Need for Personalized Television - I Want My My TV:
Alex Rowland has an interesting long tailish post out about the problem we have of finding good TV. Rowland seems to feel that much of what we may want by way of niche TV is in fact already out there but that we just can't find it.Certainly tools like TiVo and it's time shifting, recommendations and wish lists (and Rowland adds, Yahoo!'s TV Guide and TMS data) help some but even with these tools finding good television still is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Some of the mainstream stuff is pretty easy. When the whole world is talking about the Sopranos or Desperate Housewives you check some of this stuff out and it sticks. But what about finding new stuff and finding more niche stuff?