Not to go off on a complete tangent, but...

>... like the infamous Duff Beer joke being out of frame in The Simpsons.

My collection of The Simpsons, seasons 1-13, are all TV rips from waaaaayyyyy back in the 00's. Sure, it's not super high-quality, but at least they don't look like the ugly remasters (on some of the ones I've tried watching on Disney+, they look like someone's drawn over the old cells), the aspect ratio is the original so nothing's missing and, as a personal bonus, they've got the old Q13 logo in the bottom (I grew up in western WA). They still look great on my newer TV.

Edit: Oh, and the Michael Jackson episode never suddenly disappeared from my library.

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Waterluvian 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To me it is the difference between art and product.

A show like The Simpsons is both. The viewers care about the art, and we tolerate the product to get it. The creators are creating art, compromising with the corporation and broadcaster to make it enough of a product. But the corp/broadcaster only care about the product. The art is the chocolate around the advertising pill.

So when the product-minded people control preservation and resharing of the product, the art always gets compromised. Jokes are clipped. Audio is broken. Episodes are pulled. For all the wrong reasons.

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toyg an hour ago | parent [-]

The terminology is art vs content. Anybody talking about "content", by definition, do not actually care about what that content is, just that it is contained into something they charge for.

	▲	Waterluvian 25 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No I don’t think that’s what I’m going for. To me content often implies a kind of volume of work. Always be posting. Don’t miss a few days or your viewers go elsewhere. Lots and lots of content! The concerns of a product are the salability. Is has to fit perfectly into a 22 mins slot. It can’t upset the wrong people. It has to fit the mood and culture that our advertisers want. Etc.
	▲	cwillu 39 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is a great example of when pulling out a dictionary implies that you've lost the argument, because if people were using the word in the same sense as the dictionary definition, you would have no need of the dictionary to “prove” the meaning.

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486sx33 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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hbn an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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