But isn't it wonderful that they did?

It's vaguely disturbing that people "watch" films 10-12 hours a day. Many of them are using it as a radio, for background noise, without really caring what the program is beyond vague genre, tuning in and out without particular regard to the plot… and yet we have all the cost of transmitting high-resolution video point-to-point.

Surely we could just put better stuff on the radio, and accomplish most of the same goals for a far lower price?

	▲	jimbokun 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		My Dad was in the hospital, and just wanted to watch the Pirates play. The TV was filled with apps, some of them free to watch, others demanding a subscription and log in once you selected something. None of them had the Pirates game. I was thinking how the transistor radio was a far superior experience for this use case. Just tune to the channel broadcasting the game.