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Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Yes, but no. Cable didn't used to let you watch all seasons of a specific show on any given day and time of your choosing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much.

If you missed an episode of a show on cable television. Well, you're shit out of luck unless it's a show that the network didn't mind running re-runs of, but re-runs only applied for shows that were popular. And if you missed an episode of a show that wasn't popular, again you were shit out of luck and hope to one day acquire it through a VHS or a DVD or these days, blu-ray or on streaming.

Network programming was always like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That is also the reason everything reset to the status quo at the end of every episode.

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