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by Mike Masnick
Mon, Aug 6th 2012 8:25am
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cord cutting, pay tv, tv, watching
For a few years now, we've been hearing pay TV execs (and some of their favorite Wall Street analysts) claiming that cord cutting in the US is some sort of myth, even as the numbers continue to prove otherwise. The latest stat is that, since the beginning of this year 400,000 households have cut the cord and dropped pay TV services. At what point will the TV guys realize that cord cutting is real? They still like to blame it all on the economy, but the fact is that the vast majority of these users are never going back. Until TV execs realize that's a fact, they're never going to understand how to adapt.
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Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 7:50am
Cord-neversThere's also somethnig to be said for the "cord-nevers" - those in their 20s who have never had a cable subscription. They get their mass media entertainment from Hulu, Netflix, and other online sources. That segment will be even more disruptive than the cord-cutters.
Rikuo (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:36am
Re: Cord-neversI'm a cord-never, but I don't get my content from Hulu or Netflix. Hulu isn't available in my country (I don't want to pay for a VPN to access something that is stupidly geo-blocked) and Netflix in my country has an extremely limited library and limited interface. I prefer using Media Player Classic and being able to select alternate languages and subtitles. That, and I don't like streaming: I much prefer to have the video files sitting on my hard drives.
So...what's your plan, media conglomerates? How are you going to entice me into paying you? Oh wait, I know how. By limiting your online selections, locking everything away as much as humanly possible and then suing the very people who you are trying to entice into becoming customers.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:48am
Re: Re: Cord-neversIt's not stupidly geo-blocked. Many times, it is the television program makers who are telling Hulu "Only in the United States" because they want to charge people outside the United States a higher or lower rate.
Rikuo (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 1:05pm
Re: Re: Re: Cord-neversWell, whether its Hulu itself or the program makers, if I go to www.hulu.com...
Hang on, that's weird. Earlier on, when I went to check out Hulu, it said there were geo-blocks.
Now it isn't.
Huh. That's a head-scratcher right there.
Rikuo (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 1:10pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Cord-neversAh, there it is. I don't get the "Only available in US" warning until I actually select a movie and try to watch it. Well, as I was going to say in the above comment, they don't want to charge people outside the US a higher or lower rate...they can't be, since the content isn't being made available at all!
Plus, any arguments they might make to support different prices in different regions are bullshit. It's the same product, being given to me on my own internet connection. With physical goods, you have shipping and customs costs to take into account when dealing with international customers: not so when you're dealing with an online retailer who's not in the same country as your customer. That's why if I were to buy a book/song/movie (digitally) off of Amazon US, despite being in Ireland, I would be charged the exact same price by Amazon as a US customer. The only extra charges I would see would be from my bank, from converting my euroes into dollars.
JMT (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 5:48pm
Re: Re: Re: Cord-neversSo it is stupidly geo-blocked.
Jean, 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:38am
Re: Cord-neversThe big name execs won't admit cord-cutters exist, I doubt they will ever buy into the idea of people who never had a subscription to start with. Since it's harder to show numbers on that they will continue to dismiss it.
MrWilson, 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:39am
Re: Cord-neversAnd even those of us in our 30s. I have coworkers who are just realizing that they can hook their TV up to their computer thanks to Netflix telling them that and they're amazed when I mention that I've been doing it for over six years.
It was pretty damn obvious years ago that the internet and television would eventually merge (Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, e.g.). Now we just need the media companies to realize that and stop trying to keep that from happening.
DCX2, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:34am
Re: Cord-neversIt's not just Netflix/Hulu/etc. Many cord-nevers don't even feel the need to consume *any* television-like media. We're too busy playing video games, which involve actively engaging the media. The idea that you sit there and just passively consume media is anathema to us.
Hellmark (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 12:32pm
Re: Cord-neversI'm in this group. in the house I lived in until I was 20, it would have cost $10,000 to install cable, because cable service stopped at the beginning of my street, and they wanted to install a full trunk down my street incase others wanted to join in. Problem is, they wanted the first person to sign up for cable to foot the entire cost, and even if they split the cost among everyone, there were at total of 3 houses on the road that was about a 1000 feet long, so it would have still been prohibitively expensive. We also never got satellite, didn't feel it was worth the expense for the amount of TV we watched. After I moved, I didn't have a lot of money, so I either could get cable/satellite, or get internet. I picked 'net. I am perfectly fine with not having cable. For years now, I've had a computer, or some other net capable device hooked up to a TV, to stream video, and will continue to do so.
jupiterkansas (profile), 14 Aug 2012 @ 10:51am
Re: Cord-neversI'm in my 40s and I've never had a cord. Nor do I listen to radio. I get most of my music and movies free from the public library, my news from the net, and I invest my entertainment dollars in local theatre, keeping it in my community. This makes my life amazingly free of annoying advertising. I don't know how people can stand it.
Cut your stupid cords and go enjoy life!
Chris ODonnell (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:35amMy kid are 16 and 18. I highly doubt that either of them will ever pay for TV.
Trails (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:10am
Re:My kids are 3 and have never watched cable tv. We went on a trip and at one point when the gownups were sorting out what to do that day turned on the tv for them.
They were by turns horrified and annoyed by:
1) interruptions from advertising
2) inability to watch a show from the beginning
3) inability fast forward through credits
4) inability to stop watching, and pick up show from same spot again later
5) inability to select what to watch
If/when they develop a sense of what "money" is, I can only imagine their bouts of confusion as on that day I explain to them that to get the interrupted, unpausable broadcast that caused them so much annoyance, they'd have to pay a lot more than netflix (which they love).
jupiterkansas (profile), 14 Aug 2012 @ 10:52am
Re: Re:If I can't push pause, I don't watch it.
Mesonoxian Eve (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:38amI can't claim to be one of the 400,000 because I cut the cord two years ago. I will assure the industry, however, I am not ever coming back.
I've yet to be forced by YouTube to watch a video uploaded in 2003, with 4 minute ad breaks every 10 minutes.
RIP, Television.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:45am
Re:I was also an early unadopter.
DCX2, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:37am
Re:I haven't consciously and willingly had a cord in at least ten years. The only time I had a cord is if the ISP required the cord to be bundled with the internet service, in which case I bought the bottom-of-the-barrel cord. For a few years I didn't even own a TV, but then I got back into console gaming.
Yogi, 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:39am
CriminalsHow is cord cutting not yet a criminal offense punishable by death/reality TV? What do we have a congress and president for?
MrWilson, 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:42am
Re: Criminals"death/reality TV"
Isn't that repetitive?
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:47am
Re: Re: Criminals"death/reality TV"
Isn't that repetitive?
The first kills your body. The second, your mind and soul. I'd rather be shot than watch reality TV.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 7:44pm
Re: Re: Re: CriminalsLong live the new flesh.
DannyB (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:56am
Re: CriminalsDid you mean a Reality TV show where the cable co. execs track down and punish people who stop subscribing to cable, as an example to others why this is a bad idea?
Or did you mean Reality TV as a punishment worse than death for those who stop subscribing to cable.
the other Jason, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:42am
Re: CriminalsI think they're hoping they can pass a fairness tax on the internet first.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 7:43pm
Re: CriminalsIt's not 20 minutes into the future yet.
Greevar (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:41am
The internet is all I need.Why would I pay for anything else?
fogbugzd (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:44amMost of the people non-cord cutters that I know are keeping cable because of college and pro sports. This is probably great news for the sports industry in the short term. It gives ESPN and other sports channels good reason to extort more and more money from the cable industry.
But in the long term sports is losing the next generation. I am the mentor to one of our campus's residence halls. Students are not connecting to the free cable TV that is provided by the University. Most of them do not even have TV's. Most of the ones who do have TV's are connecting them to the Internet but not the cable outlet. Keep in mind that the cable is provided FREE, students just have to buy their own patch cable. But in my dorm the TV outlet is in an inconvenient location, so it isn't worth hooking up for most students. This is the flip side of "you can't compete with free." In this case free can't compete with paid services like HuluPlus and Netflix.
Ten years ago if you went to the residence halls on Friday or Saturday you would hear football or basketball coming from most of the rooms. Now it is rare to hear even a single TV on football on Sunday afternoon. Sports is losing a generation because they are dependent on cable revenue.
Jason, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:45am
WOW, THAT'S A GREAT STORY!!"Students are not connecting to the free cable TV that is provided by the University."
When free can't even compete with free, your business model is walking-dead.
Colin, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:53am
Re:Most of the people non-cord cutters that I know are keeping cable because of college and pro sports. This is probably great news for the sports industry in the short term. It gives ESPN and other sports channels good reason to extort more and more money from the cable industry.
This is why I keep my basic cable. I'd gladly give ESPN $10/month to keep them and drop everything else.
Jason, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:18am
Re: Re:Or, in the alternative, I might actually finally consider Hulu Plus if it had any real sports offering.
Jeremy2020 (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:22am
Re: Re:I can't stand ESPN, but the ESPN app on xbox360 has a lot of content. I'm not sure what other hardware it is available for
art guerrilla (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 7:08pm
Re:exactly this, sports, as you say...
i have been a medium sports fan over the years, but i'm willing to give most of it up JUST because i am so pissed at Big Media...
however, SWMBO is probably even more of a sports fan than i, and don't think she is willing to go cold turkey off the glass teat...
IF i had a ways of getting those sports online to her satisfaction, the cord would not only be cut, but un-earthed, coiled up, and thrown back in the face of Big Media...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
jupiterkansas (profile), 14 Aug 2012 @ 10:56am
Re:Sports are meant to be played, not watched. Hopefully they're spending their Sundays outside playing football and baseball, staying healthy and enjoying life.
sehlat (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:48am
Cord-Cutting is NOT a new phenomenonI cut the cord back in 1992 when ComCast insisted that I had to buy a five-channel package (four of which were garbage) in order to get the SciFi channel. I canceled my service and haven't gone back or gone to any other service since.
As for the current situation, I think the key item in the article cited was the phrase "regular programming blackouts," as the studios and distributors squabble over who gets to keep which slice of the rapidly shrinking pie, leading to more and more customer desertions.
We're finally seeing a (sort of) answer to the old question "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" There's a war, and the customers are leaving in droves.
Me, I'm stocking up on popcorn, laughing like hell, and watching the show. I don't think there's going to be any programming blackout on THIS soap opera.
ltlw0lf (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:56am
Re: Cord-Cutting is NOT a new phenomenonI cut the cord back in 1992 when ComCast insisted that I had to buy a five-channel package (four of which were garbage) in order to get the SciFi channel. I canceled my service and haven't gone back or gone to any other service since.
Good thing you did...There is only so much WWF/WWE a person can watch on Sy-Fy before you give up and watch something else. I never understood the link between Science Fiction and wrestling, but apparently that was Sy-Fy's main demographic.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:02am
Re: Re: Cord-Cutting is NOT a new phenomenonI never understood the link between Science Fiction and wrestling,
You don't understand the link between fiction and pure fiction? Good grief!
JEDIDIAH, 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:42am
Pride and Predjudice and Zombies!Jane Austen may be fiction but it's not SCIENCE FICTION.
If there aren't any robots or super serum involved, a wrestling story has no business on the Sci-Fi channel.
On the other hand: there are a great number of Sci-Fi movies (classics even) that are nowhere near the Sci-Fi channel. In fact, if you are interested in Sci-Fi classics you're better off watching AMC and several other channels.
I have a database and I am not afraid to use it.
ltlw0lf (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 3:54pm
Re: Pride and Predjudice and Zombies!Jane Austen may be fiction but it's not SCIENCE FICTION.
Since Jane Austen's works are all in the public domain, we could easily rewrite them to include robots....
On the other hand: there are a great number of Sci-Fi movies (classics even) that are nowhere near the Sci-Fi channel.
Amen brother. When I had cable, I watched the Science Channel far more than Sy-Fy, because the Science Channel tended to play far more Science-Fiction movies and made-for-TV versions of Science Fiction books, complete with discussions from Scientists on the movie (ala History Channel's Real-to-Reel.) Science Channel even played classics like Firefly, which Sy-Fy never played. Only thing I was happy about Sy-Fy for was the first six years of Stargate SG-1, but really, Showtime had more to do with that then Sy-Fy.
gorehound (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:12am
Re: Cord-Cutting is NOT a new phenomenonI also cut my Cable Cord when they would not allow me to choose the few channels I wanted.That was a good 7 - 10 years ago.
Nowadays I don't seem to care what is put out by the Hollywood Industry.I am more interested in INDIE & Local Art & Films.
New Mexico Mark, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:57am
Re: Cord-Cutting is NOT a new phenomenonThat's about when we cut the cord. The trigger for us was when we called the cable company to change from premium (which we had for a couple of years) to basic service. They wanted to charge us $20 to make that change. After trying to convince them that charging $20 for making an entry on a terminal was a bit excessive, we asked how much would it cost to cancel service? $0
At that point we realized we were dealing with some kind of subhuman parasitic life forms who were impervious to logic or even good business sense. We cut the cord and we've never looked back.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:48amSadly they are sure it is a myth, because seeing how the cartels have gotten their way over and over it is merely a matter of the right amount of cash in the right hands to get some law requiring everyone to have cable... for the children and to defeat terrorists!
ltlw0lf (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:59am
Re:Sadly they are sure it is a myth, because seeing how the cartels have gotten their way over and over it is merely a matter of the right amount of cash in the right hands to get some law requiring everyone to have cable... for the children and to defeat terrorists!
Just wait, now that Individual Mandate has been ok'd by the Supreme Court, it is only a matter of time before we see a new tax on the various copyright industries and on cable subscriptions. If the government can force you to buy health insurance, and can fine you if you don't, I figure there is only a little while longer before they can force you to buy cable AND satellite coverage and fine you if you don't. If it isn't in a bill already sitting in a Senator's inbox, it will be shortly.
the other Jason, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:48am
Re: Re:Yeah, I don't agree with current healthcare law either, but I think your effort to piggyback your politics onto an unrelated issue is even more yucky.
JEDIDIAH, 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:45am
The law is the law.The law is the law.
Once a stupid precedent becomes law then all sorts of nasty unintended consequences can occur. It's an obvious result of a "do something" mentality as opposed to a "what are we allowed to do" mentality.
When you remove the rule of law completely, all sorts of strange things are possible.
The fact that this can even be portrayed as a "political" issue is somewhat obscene.
Yeah. Rules, who needs them...
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:14am
Re: Re:Didn't Canada or the UK at one point put a tax on all blank CD's to pay the RIAA (or equal group in those countries) assuming that the discs were used for stealing music?
But don't worry, that is one of those "ridiculous" cases that will never happen thanks to our great democratic process according to those who support the SCOTUS decision.
ltlw0lf (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:07am
Re: Re: Re:Didn't Canada or the UK at one point put a tax on all blank CD's to pay the RIAA (or equal group in those countries) assuming that the discs were used for stealing music?
They did. I also believe they now have that tax for hard-drives too... Music CDs are sold in the US that have a similar tax...so it is always better to avoid those if you are using CDs to back up data, or for purposes other than music.
But don't worry, that is one of those "ridiculous" cases that will never happen thanks to our great democratic process according to those who support the SCOTUS decision.
I know you were being sarcastic, and agree with the sarcasm (my comment was sarcasm as well, which apparently some missed.) I don't think it will happen, but considering the slippery slope and unintended consequences of other "good" laws, I suspect it has already been thought of by those in power over at the RIAA/MPAA. They will likely push for it, if they feel they can get away with it. Hopefully they don't think they can get away with it, or if they do, that we don't let them get away with it.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:52am
Re: Re:I figure there is only a little while longer before they can force you to buy cable AND satellite coverage and fine you if you don't.
This would be amusing.
Considering the kind of flak that the NEA goes through on a regular basis on even barely controversial art, I'd love to see the broadcasters go through taking tax dollars to make reality tv.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:11am
Re:"Sadly they are sure it is a myth, because seeing how the cartels have gotten their way over and over it is merely a matter of the right amount of cash in the right hands to get some law requiring everyone to have cable.."
Too late it has already started down that road, The cable Co.'s have already gone to the FCC about encrypting the free over the air channels the carry!
Titania Bonham-Smythe (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:49am
I suppose I'm not a cord cutter, strictly speaking...I cancelled my Spotify, LoveFilm and Netflix subscriptions the day that Ofcom announced their three-strikes rules in the UK. The next time I will spend any money with any organisation related to the MPAA or RIAA is when they repeal the Digital Economy Act.
akp, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:56am
Re: I suppose I'm not a cord cutter, strictly speaking...Why would you cancel your completely legal, sane and useful services? Just so you're not giving money in any way to the **AAs, even through meager licensing schemes?
Titania Bonham-Smythe (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:25am
Re: Re: I suppose I'm not a cord cutter, strictly speaking...Precisely
Josef Anvil (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:53am
Short sighted profitsThe cable companies really don't care about the cord-cutters or the cord nevers because they are focused on revenue. Subscription TV is still hugely profitable for the foreseeable future, so they won't bother to react to disruption until the game has completely changed.
Let's not forget that the cable companies in the US control a huge share of the broadband market. So even if they lost the pay TV market, they will just squeeze more from their pipes. They will just continue to claim there is a bandwidth shortage and ratchet up the metering on the pipes until that market is disrupted (Google, anyone?.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:48am
Re: Short sighted profitsAgree. Comcast simply charges you more for internet if you drop cable tv. Until there are serious competitors in the internet market, cable providers will pick our collective pockets one way or another.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:55amI cut the cord a year ago and it was the best decision I ever made. Now when I visit friends or families houses where they do have cable I look at it and wonder why. I have to scroll past pages and pages of pure infomercial channels, only to find that every station has some form or pawn,pickers, ice whatever. These reality shows are all the same and so predictable it's downright dull. I never will again pay the outrageous rates for TV that is all the same and all terrible.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 8:58amBut think of the children!
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:06amA couple of things in the story that need to get looked at:
Yes, losses of 400,000 - and gains somewhere else of 275,000. Net, you are looking at 125,000. Considering the economy, that is a very small fraction of subscribers being lost.
Also there is no indication if these are true cord cutters (getting ride of all wire line style services), or are they dropping pay TV and maintaining their internet connections. As an example, it might be interesting to see how many of these people have shifted to tablet PCs with 4G as their main source, making their home internet connection redundant, and therefore leading then to also turn off the TV channels.
There is a significant lack of information in the story from which to draw any conclusions.
John Fenderson (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:46am
Also there is no indication if these are true cord cutters (getting ride of all wire line style services), or are they dropping pay TV and maintaining their internet connections.
The term "cord-cutting" generally refers to opting out of cable TV offerings, not necessarily opting our of cable-based internet services.
About 75% of the people I know have stopped cable TV service and all of them have cable-based internet service (as it's the only realistic option in my area). Very few people I know use 4G for regular streaming because they're afraid of hitting usage caps.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:15am
Re:Yes, losses of 400,000 - and gains somewhere else of 275,000. Net, you are looking at 125,000. Considering the economy, that is a very small fraction of subscribers being lost.
Would you care to cite proof? I can pull numbers out of my anal orifice, too.
Regardless, every avalanche starts with a snow-flake.
Also there is no indication if these are true cord cutters (getting ride of all wire line style services), or are they dropping pay TV and maintaining their internet connections. As an example, it might be interesting to see how many of these people have shifted to tablet PCs with 4G as their main source, making their home internet connection redundant, and therefore leading then to also turn off the TV channels.
The whole statement is redundant. The suggestion was already made by several posters previous to you. Why did you even bother to write that?
There is a significant lack of information in the story from which to draw any conclusions.
And you post adds precisely nothing.
the other Jason, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:54am
Re: Re:Dude, ease off the coffee. It's not out of line for the guy to suggest that the overall picture may be incomplete based solely on the numbers in the article.
Even if is a little disingenuous that his hypothetical appears to be an assertion of fact. It's still a valid question, two actually: How do these numbers compare to the net shift? and How significant a shift is it, really?
Also, he did preface the statement as something that "need[s] to get looked at." So maybe it wasn't really dishonest at all.
"As an example, it might be interesting to see how many of these people have shifted to tablet PCs with 4G as their main source, making their home internet connection redundant, and therefore leading then to also turn off the TV channels."
I also thought this was interesting. Yeah someone else mentioned 4G. This guy suggested a possible research topic, a rather well-defined one, too. I found that worth thinking about.
"Regardless, every avalanche starts with a snow-flake."
Way to attack an argument from silence with a slippery slope fallacy. You killed him good! An eye for an eye! Who cares if they're both blind already.
Incidentally, some avalanches start with a really mean and nasty jerkwad throwing stones to blow off steam. Just sayin'.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:59am
Re:Yes, losses of 400,000 - and gains somewhere else of 275,000. Net, you are looking at 125,000.
Wrong. The 400k losses were from traditional cable/satellite companies - Comcast, TimeWarner, DirecTV.
From the article:
"Also the newer entrants to the TV market -- Verizon Communications' FiOS TV and AT&T Inc's U-verse -- added 275,000 customers during the quarter."
While the 275k is more of a switch to the competition, it is competition from a new outside source - not a traditional competitor.
Kyle, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:13amTo say people are "never going back" is a bit absolute. I'd go back - if they offered me something better than what Hulu/Vudu/bittorrent can offer me. But currently, they don't offer anything I want, beyond a handful of shows themselves. I certainly DO NOT WANT that they dictate when I watch, in the resolution they choose, with the commercials they require, all for a price that I feel doesn't match the value I receive.
Offer me a la carte programming, in HD, with a max of 3 minutes of commercials per 30 mins of video, and make it either on-demand or psuedo on-demand (aka "recordable via DVR) and then offer it at a price that makes it competitive and you might get a customer back.
the other Jason, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:58am
Baldaur Regis (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:28am
Re:When I asked my cable co. about ala carte programming a few years ago, the laughed in my face and said it was technologically impossible. When I pointed out premium channels and PPV are essentially ala carte (and thus technologically possible), they said well, bundling channels gave struggling channels a chance to establish themselves. When I asked how did established channels feel about splitting the pie with junk programming, they reminded me other people were in line and would I please move on. And every month since then I get a nice letter saying they miss me and offering even more channels I've never heard of.
DannyB (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:13am
Cable TV is obsoleteThe whole idea behind cable tv and broadcast tv is an obsolete technological artifact from the previous millennium.
It was due to the limited technology of the day that entertainment had to be divided up into into "channels" that used valuable spectrum -- whether you or anyone was actually watching or not*. To make life worse, in the age before DVR's, they didn't broadcast those shows at all odd hours of the night when your DVR could record them. Instead you had to adjust your life around when your favorite show came on -- or miss it.
So it was sliced and limited in one dimension by channels, and slice and limited in another dimension by time slots. And as the major-international-sporting-events-that-must-not-be-named** illustrates, Prime Time is everything. People are expected to organize their life around a time slot, in order to learn about events that already happened and are over -- but we can't let the actual news of what happened escape in real time.
With Internet instead of Cable TV coming into my house, I don't need the bandwidth for all those HD channels. All I need is bandwidth for the one that I am watching right now. And in principle, this internet-thingy technology doesn't have any built in limit, in principle, on how many possible servers could exist to serve entertainment to me. Eg, they aren't limited by the finite resource called spectrum. Furthermore, the internet tv can be on-demand -- when I want to see it. And even more inconceivable to the old broadcast TV, I can watch it from anywhere, in principle, across the country or across the globe. And on any device, for example, while riding the subway using WiFi, or a cellular data plan. No worry about moving "out of range" of the broadcast area.
Cable TV has gotten lazy. 200 channels, and still nothing to watch. All trash, 24 hours a day. Reality TV. Info-tainment style soft news. The History channel has, yes, Ancient Aliens. The Science channel has, (gasp!) Ghost Hunters or Oddities.
They just can't seem to believe there may be some upper limit to how many commercials they can put in front of our eyes. Even after a commercial break, they interrupt your show for the first couple of minutes with animated distractions that cover up part of the reason you were watching in the first place. Even when those end, there is always the ever present annoying bug in the corner with the logo superimposed on the program. At some point, Enough is Enough.
*Philosophical question: If a reality tv show is broadcast, and nobody watches, does it still use up valuable spectrum?
**This reference is in no way meant to imply anything official or unofficial about any particular sports related event that may or may not be going on in London in 2012.
Ben (profile), 7 Aug 2012 @ 6:49am
Re: Cable TV is obsoleteThe History channel has, yes, Ancient Aliens.
Don't knock Ancient Aliens! The best comedy show the History channel ever had!
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:21amWith winning tropes like My Dysfunctional Family (Modern Family, The New Normal, Two and a Half Men), Pop-Culture-Based Satire (Family Guy, The Simpsons, South Park) and Geeks Are Weird (Big Bang Theory, The New Girl), we all know that those 400k subscribers will be back; how could they stay away?
Sorry if my examples are stale or inaccurate: I haven't watched network TV since the 90s.
James Plotkin, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:32am
propogandaLeave it to content industry executives to underplay a paradigm shift int he way their customers consume content...
This is nostalgic. I can't put my finger on it. Something about a ca wearing headphones, free music files...Nap-something?
But seriously, it's time to get online and on-demand moving full steam ahead. I haven't had a cable connection in over 3 years...I know I'm not a mutant...
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:40am
Re: propoganda"Leave it to content industry executives to underplay a paradigm shift int he way their customers consume content..."
They aren't underplaying a shift, rather I suspect they are watching with a little bit of amusement because the shift is from watching their content HERE to watching their content THERE.
They are more concerned that, in the long run, you need up with too many mooches getting the material for free without a valid financial structure in place, and you end up with not enough money to make the content.
Everyone bitches about reality TV, but reality TV is the outcrop of your desire for hundreds of channels. They have to fill the air with something, and they have to do it at a reasonable cost. Reality TV is cheaper by the hour than sitcoms are by the half hour, generally.
The content people realize that when they stop making the content because not enough people are paying, that the "alterative" is also lost, because they are the alternative to themselves. There really isn't enough else out there.
John Fenderson (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:50am
Re: Re: propoganda
Everyone bitches about reality TV, but reality TV is the outcrop of your desire for hundreds of channels.
I have a hard time believing that people rally want hundreds of channels just for the sake of having hundreds of channels. I think people would pay much more, and be happier about it, per-channel if they could only have a dozen channels but got to choose which channels those dozen were.
Re: Re: Re: propogandaGot it in one Mr. Garibaldi.
James Plotkin, 20 Jun 2015 @ 6:59pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: propogandaWe are all Kosh...
Re: Re: Re: propogandaI can already do that to some extent by buying select boxed sets of DVD's.
JEDIDIAH, 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:50am
Re: propogandaYou can also do that by telling your cable set top box to ignore all of the crap channels you don't want. You still have to pay for them though.
I don't want 500 bad channels. I want 10 or 20 good ones.
Discovery and History splitting up into multiple channels is nothing that benefits me and nothing that I am clamouring for. If anything it seems like a cheap bid to extract more money out of my and my cable provider.
"See, you're getting more. Now pay us more."
DannyB (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 1:02pm
Re: Re: propoganda> You can also do that by telling your cable set top box
> to ignore all of the crap channels you don't want.
You mean most, or in some regions, all of them.
My cable system doesn't get Logo (although it's become crap now), but has three Espn channels that I will never watch.
> You still have to pay for them though.
Not after I cut the cable. :-)
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 12:06pm
Re: Re: Re: propogandaEveryone bitches about reality TV, but reality TV is the outcrop of your desire for hundreds of channels.
Another component of reality tv is that it is cheaper than scripted tv and no one pirates it as it is so bad or is a contest type format that only lends itself to watching live.
Jason, 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:02am
Re: Re: propogandaNobody wants hundreds of channels. They want one. You want one. I want one. My channel. I choose, and it's easy to find what I choose. That's it.
DannyB (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 1:03pm
Re: Re: Re: propogandaThat sounds like how the Internet works. Someone should patent that!
Yakko Warner (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:33am
Comcast has a novel way to fight itI cut cable a few years ago after subscribing to Netflix, trying it out for a few months, and coming to the decision that it was a viable replacement for video entertainment.
A few months ago, Comcast dropped off a cable box for the basic channels that I would now get free as part of my internet subscription. So now, I guess, I am part of their statistics of "not a cord cutter".
Of course, it took me a couple months before I even bothered to hook the cable box up; and, in the process of troubleshooting internet connection problems, we discovered the cable splitter installed back in 2001 was bad, so it's been removed and the cable goes straight into the cable modem, so the cable box is no longer connected. But if it makes them feel better to have one less "cord cutter" on the books....
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:18am
Re: Comcast has a novel way to fight ithaha, this.
I stopped splitting any cables coming in off the street to ensure my modem gets the cleanest possible signal flowing to it.
John Fenderson (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:27am
Re: Comcast has a novel way to fight itThey did this for me, too. I returned mine right away so I wouldn't have to worry about losing it in a closet somewhere and end up buying it.
Fickelbra (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:42am
They never get itI cut the cord as of last year. You can tell pay TV sources are a huge revenue source because not only did the sales person throw every deal under the sun at me not to give up TV on my U-verse account, but now I constant TV offers from AT&T almost weekly.
I still recall the sales person asking this final question: "Sir, what is it AT&T could do to let you keep your TV service?" My reply: "Offer me a package that is 10 dollars a month and consists of 5 channels of my choosing." Surprisingly the representative I talked to says he gets that message a lot, and constantly submits it as feedback to the higher ups, but nothing changes.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:04am
Re: They never get itYea I had the same experience when I "ditched the dish" with DirecTV.
The final straw for me was when I got charged out of the blue when my "Trial" of showtime ended. I worked out the numbers and I could save over $30 a month if I bought all my shows off of xbox live & bought DVD's to fill the gaps.
What these guys don't get is that it's not about the money. I would gladly pay upwards of $50 a month for Netflix if they had new shows and movies. I also wish they would have stuck with their guns and went forward with the online and DVD mail split.
Chris ODonnell (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:13am
Re: They never get itWhen I went that route with DISH they came up with a $14.99 a month plan that includes local channels, Comedy Central, History, Discover, HGTV and The Food Network (for my wife, really!) CNN, and a few others. Given that I live 50 miles from the TV transmitters and was going to have to invest $400 for a suitable roof top antenna with amplifiers and all that, sticking with the service at that price wasn't such a bad deal.
Jeffry Houser (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:11am
How many new customers are signing up?The number of cutomers they are losing is only half the number...
How many new customers are signing up?
I assume they are losing customers; as opposed to gaining them, but this article doesn't tell the full story.
Jeremy2020 (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:34am
Re: How many new customers are signing up?They are losses...as in total customers. It's right at the top of the story.
DirecTV makes first customer loss of 52,000
* Time Warner Cable loses 169,000 video customers
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:18amCut my cord over a year ago and haven't looked back. A $50 antenna gets me the major channels in our area in HD for free, Hulu for recent shows that interest us...Netflix for older stuff.
Now all I need is for Google Fiber to come to Rochester and my entertainment needs will be set.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:21amThis is a depressing question but what percentage of those people who cut the cord did so because they were too poor to be able to afford cable?
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 10:37amCommercials....especially the ones put into no longer in production tv shows (commercials are sold to pay for the shows production is the excuse ?) as well as any movie....the litany of crap shows and faked reality tv shows....the non option for subscribing to only the channels desired....the networks lobbying against services that would remove commercials ...commercials....commercials....commercials....commercials.....commercials.....
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:20amyes mike, it is easy to dismiss the economy as haveing anything to do with it, as doing so helps you promote your own agenda, but you do know lots of people, have not worked for over a year or more, or have low paying jobs, it is a finanacial decision, as something they can live without due to not have the excess monies to afford it
John Fenderson (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:31am
Re:It's amazing how you can turn a really legitimate observation (the economy may factor into it) into a trollish personal attack.
DannyB (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 1:07pm
Re: Re:It's only amazing if you haven't seen very many of his other bits of excreted wisdum.
John Fenderson (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 1:28pm
Re: Re: Re:Yeah, I should have put a SarcMark on that. I wasn't actually amazed.
JEDIDIAH, 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:54am
Trying to hide the point.If these cord cutters find suitable alternatives, it doesn't really matter what their motives are. These people will likely no longer view current cable pricing as acceptable. They will likely not come back even after their fortunes improve.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 11:27pm
Re:Fuck off and die.
Anonymous Coward, 8 Aug 2012 @ 3:09pm
Re: Re:Jack off and fly!
Elie (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 12:11pm
Also a cutter several years agoI also moved away from paid TV a couple years ago. Got myself a mac mini, an HDMI cable, and an app to control the mini through my iPad. Watch most of my TV for free through Hulu, Netflix, or the show's websites. A couple I have to get through iTunes, but a couple of season passes once a year cost less than one month of DirecTv.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 12:51pmI can tell you I cut the cord 10 years ago. I did so because it was then much too expensive for what was being offered and what was shown were repeats and reruns most of the time. Simply I wasn't getting my money's worth then. Today is much worse.
Add to it the amount of stupid shows put on. I got more entertainment value watching the people watching the tv than the program that was on. Add to this that the programs I like were not being made at the same rate as the stupid shows. Maybe one or two a month actually new.
When I looked at my watching habits, I found that it was being used more for background noise than it was for interesting programs. Why in the world was I paying for this?
The younger generation is the future for cable and PPV. Just like most have little inclination to pay for music, most don't care about tv either. Whether big entertainment cares about it or not, future change is in their upcoming agenda. Prices are already all the market will tote and more. It's over priced and over valued.
I no longer own a tv. Didn't buy one when the digital changeover occurred and have no interest in buying one today just to be served commercials. They can take their over priced, commercial loaded crap and feed it to someone else. I won't be part of it as I am never going back to it.
ECA (profile), 6 Aug 2012 @ 1:51pm
VERY INTERESTING..Cable in the OLD DAYS made a few promises..
NONE of which came to fruit.
1. less commercials, Now we have channels that are ALL commercials.
2. ALMOST if not free.
I wont get into it..but WHY do we need 200+ channels?
Many people have forgotten that Broadcast TV is alive and well. in many locations you get Many channels.. Im in very rural area(farming) and get all the basic and Independent channels(about 20+ total)..
Major metro should have Tons more then I can get.
but its the Basic hardware. $50 antenna and $50 Signal booster. Then getting the antenna up HIGH enough to get good signal.
You can get MORE locally then with cable/sat. Adverts for an area on cable sat. ARE NOT local business. You can only see National business's on Cable/sat.
Local channels advert LOCAL business. As well as national corps.
Out of all the channels you can get on Cable/sat..how many do you REALLY watch?
most people can break the list down to BELOW 20 channels. but, YOU ARE STILL paying for those other channels.
ESPN is the highest PAID channel selection, about $5 per month, PER PERSON. You dont watch GOLF on ESPN, you still paid the $5. you dont watch Basketball?? 3 months, you paid for it..
DOES any of this money go to the PLAYERS?? NOPE. they have to sign contracts, that say THEY DONT GET ANYTHING for the representation of them in the media.
Why charge for cable?
What would it take for ALL these TV companies to install HARDWARE to get access to ALL the people in the USA?
ANTENNA' sites all over the USA to get the customer to WATCH their channels? TONS of money. and it would be free.
CAble can be the sleeping dragon.
They COULD CUT the service. FORCE these companies to Understand..Cutting the Advertising ability of a company is a MAJOR HIT..
Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2012 @ 9:09pmI don't have satellite, but I know someone who does. I was recently over at this person's house and was looking through the on-screen guide. WTF happened to CNN?! It's not there! Fox News is, but not CNN. Come to think of it, MTV isn't there either (but that's no big loss).
Anonymous Coward, 7 Aug 2012 @ 3:03amCable? what cable?
Forget Cord-Cutters: Cable Companies Should Worry About Cord-NeversI only have basic cable provide where I live at. Cable companies are missing a great chance to increase viewers if they allowed ppl like me to subscribe with an Internet acct and view online.
Skipperoo (profile), 7 Aug 2012 @ 8:51am
Forget Cord-Cutters: Cable Companies Should Worry About Cord-NeversAmended: i forgot to provide an article link. I only have basic cable provide where I live at. Cable companies are missing a great chance to increase viewers if they allowed ppl like me to subscribe with an Internet acct and view online.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/08/forget-cord-cutters-cable-companies-should-wor ry-about-cord-nevers/55380/

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Labor has taken the Abbott government to task over possible changes to its paid parental leave scheme while calling again for the "unfair and extravagant" policy to be dumped.
The government is considering diverting some of the scheme's $9.6 billion cost towards a broader childcare policy.
Payments to wealthier new parents would go towards new childcare programs in a bid to win over Senate crossbenchers who oppose the generous leave scheme.
Under the coalition plan, new mothers will get six months leave on full pay, capped at $50,000.
"If (Prime Minister Tony Abbott) walks away from it or waters it down, it will confirm (his) word means absolutely nothing," acting shadow families spokeswoman Claire Moore said in a statement on Wednesday.
Independent senator Nick Xenophon says he will back new funding for the struggling childcare sector, but would never support the parental leave scheme in its current form.
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It's officially official. At the time I'm writing this, there have been almost 150 comments posted on the previous post. Vancouver Canucks fans mostly seem to be upset by the new Rbk EDGE uniforms unveiled today at GM Place.
A lot of you guys seem quite unhappy. Specifically, you seem to loathe the wordmark above the crest. As a non-Canucks fan, I think it's great and that these jerseys are very sharp. Honestly, I don't have a single complaint. But I'm one voice against thousands. As a Lightning fan, I can somewhat understand your distress though. I've never been a big proponent of "TAMPA BAY" in the logo. At least the got rid of "LIGHTNING" in the new design.
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The "C" on Markus Naslund's sweater is a little close to the wordmark on the chest, but it's not the end of the world.
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穢翼のユースティア [Aiyoku no Eustia] (Visual Novel for PC) (AUGUST) (launching Mar-2011)
Firstly, I seldom play demos and trials, but after how Fortune Arterial impressed me, I went to try this and just finished the prelude CD last night, which prompted me to make an introductory thread (Note: this is by no means a review). Though I have some mixed feelings, especially about some of the heroines, overall, I think the plot looks promising to me and I've already made a preorder for the extra stuff. .
Main scenario writer and artist are the same as FA: Sakakibara Taku (榊原 拓) and Bekkankou (べっかんこう) respectively. Only translations of characters' names are official, the rest are my own versions.
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Long long ago, the God of this world created angels to serve him. Humans borrowed the power of the angels and greatly prospered. It was all well when people were offering prayers of gratitude to God, but when that was forgotten, God became mad and appeared to have expelled the angels. As a result, the world was engulfed by a flood of chaos. While many humans perished, the pious Saint (Holy Maiden) pleaded with God for forgiveness. God forgave the Saint and her believers and floated their city, saving their lives. That city is Novus Aether, which the characters live in.
Novus Aether and the Grand Forte (vndb translated this as Grand Fall, but I decided to keep the kana romanizations)
The city of Novus Aether is divided into 3 areas (formerly 2): Upper Stratum, Lower Stratum, The Prison. The Upper Stratum appears to be the place where the royalty and nobles reside, and the Lower Stratum the commoners. By the way, the city is ruled by the loli heroine, Queen Licia de novus Yurii (http://august-soft.com/eustia/character_04.html). 10 years ago, a corner of the city collapsed and caved in, killing many. This event is known as the Grand Forte (Great Cave-In). This part of the city was supposedly abandoned by the government and left to fend for themselves, and a group, a mafia actually, known as the Fushoku Kingusari (Undevouring Golden Chain), took over the place and kind of rule it, giving it some sort of order while at the same time turning it into some sort of a mafia town. This caved-in place is dubbed the Prison. It is however thanks to the Fushoku Kingusari that the people in the Prison could survive, especially during the lean years after the Grand Forte.
Caim Astrea (Protagonist) (http://august-soft.com/eustia/character_06.html): Lost everything during the Grand Forte. In his childhood, first employed as a servant by Fushoku Kingusari to work in their brothel Lilym. Later worked as an assassin and favored by the former Head of Fushoku Kingusari. Skilled in knives, and has killed many. Currently, he has quit his assassin career, but still help his friend, Siegfried Grado, the current Head, in a variety of jobs except for killing.
Eustia Astrea (Heroine) (http://august-soft.com/eustia/character_01.html): Orphan, and since young, worked as a slave. Have a very harsh life. Sold to Lilym at the start of the story. She contracted the 'Wing Disease' and couldn't work there anymore. Good in housework, cooking. Airhead type. Pitiful type. Apparently the title character. The reason why Tia (that's what she calls herself) has the same family name as Caim:
Spoiler for prelude play:
Spoiler for prelude play:
Eris Floralia (Heroine) (http://august-soft.com/eustia/character_02.html): Originally working as a prostitute in Lilym at a young age. But her bonds were cleared by Caim and she was freed. It was not mentioned yet whether her bonds were cleared before she actually started working or after, but I presume it's the former based on the flow of the story. Later became a doctor. Only female doctor in the Prison and served the prostitutes for free. She only takes what's needed for her living expenses. She wanted to become Caim's woman but was rejected, so now she can only help him out with household chores, even though she's not very good at them. She's a little tsun, very curt. Busty type.
Saint Irene (Heroine) (http://august-soft.com/eustia/character_03.html): The 29th Saint (Holy Maiden). The Saints supposedly inherit a power from the first Saint that helps to keep the city afloat through their prayers. She's blind.
Spoiler for prelude play:
Licia de novus Yurii (Heroine) (http://august-soft.com/eustia/character_04.html): First female ruler, queen of Novus Aether. The prelude play only has her talking to one of her nobles in the last few scenes as a weak attempt to introduce her.
Spoiler for prelude play:
Fione Silvaria (Heroine) (http://august-soft.com/eustia/character_05.html): Captain of the Wing Hunters stationed in the Prison. Their job is to find people with wings (contracted Wing disease) and isolate them, since the Wing Disease is believed to be contagious. Though others call them Wing Hunters, they call themselves "Disease Control Division". Fione is the trusting, polite, and righteous type. She is skilled with the sword,
Spoiler for prelude play:
After reaching the point where
Spoiler for prelude play:
Spoiler for prelude play:
The webtrial is available for download for play. It has the exact same play content as the prelude CD, just that the prelude CD comes with other supplementary material.
Some screen shots which may be NSFW:
Spoiler for screenshots with spoilers:
Spoiler for promo video:
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Ah hah, you August phile :P still I know where you get your excitement from, being the Type-moon fan that I am I'm all full of anticipation for their new release too
Just rather concerned about their art direction at the moment; quite a few of their character models seem far too recycled for my taste (I keep seeing charas from FA and Yoake mae in them for some reason.. o_o )
Btw hint: your links should try and not include the whole "):" part at the end, it tends to break them <3 (or at least make them not work as intended)
|2011-01-25, 02:05
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fixed. it was auto parsing issue by animesuki. lol it's not that I'm an August fan or anything like that. just interested in the plot, and wondering how they are going to weave it this time round. though after playing the prelude, it did draw me in. I am now mighty curious about the origins behind the cave in and Eustia. but too bad they didn't introduce Irene and Licia properly.
|2011-01-25, 21:09
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Usually I don't play demos and I am not a huge fan of FA, but I was looking forward to this because of how Eustia's character design reminds me of the Yuki sisters - Kanade being my favorite by the way. Maybe I will play the demos after I kill those 3 gopwakodkawdo;k dragons of EO3.
|2011-02-05, 13:58
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Looks like the game got the attention of some people, and the trial will be translated.
The news: http://yandere.gray7.com/?p=1325
The project page: http://yandere.gray7.com/?page_id=1264
|2011-02-05, 20:33
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But the game story itself and the very long description larethian put is quite interesting to me
|2011-02-06, 01:32
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I've edited the promo video links to embed into the forum. I've translated a little for fun, and have given Yandere Translations what I have, and allow them to use them freely if they want to.
both Jan and Feb's dengeki covered this VN.
here's some spoiler trans:
Spoiler for opening of webtrial:
I've also translated the character pages of Eustia and Eris:
Spoiler for not really spoiler, Eustia:
Spoiler for not really spoiler, Eris:
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Anyway, since I loved FA I'll be waiting for this in March too....bears some resemblance to Tsubasa wo Kudasai...
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Uh, not that I'm aware of. Just trying to make a point.
Surprised that someone's picked this up for TL so fast though. That usually takes some time. And then even longer to finish *glances over at our own project*
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Wow, this game seems to have a significantly darker tone than usual for August. I loved Fortune Arterial, so this definitely has my eye.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Vanilla Bean Pound Cake
We're back from Australia and New Zealand, and we had a fabulous time. However, crossing the International Date Line seems to be hard on a person's body, at least on this person's body, so I've been a little under the weather.
First, a few days before we were scheduled to leave, I was trying out my new exercise ball. I'd had a few glasses of wine (you can already tell that the combination of a few glasses of wine and an exercise ball are not going to lead to a happy ending, can't you?) and decided it would be an excellent idea to do a backbend using the exercise ball. Not surprisingly, the ball slid out from under me and I flew through the air, whacking my leg on the corner of a door. I watched in awe as the leg turned purple and swollen before my very eyes. By the next day, I could barely walk.
My own personal physician, Dr. Liz, my new doctor-daughter, told me she was worried I might have a deep vein thrombosis or a tiny fracture, either of which might interfere with our trip, to put it mildly. But a visit to a real doctor revealed that all I had was a big fat hematoma, which is sort of a fancy name for a bruise. I was a little alarmed at first because I remember from my soap-opera watching days that people are always dying of hematomas, at least on soap operas, but then I remembered that those were subdural hematomas—bruising on the brain, I think—which is a very handy thing to know about if you're a soap opera writer and are often required to kill of characters quite suddenly. Anyway, my clinic doctor (the doctor I have to pay for) told me to wear a compression stocking on the flight, but the bruising and big goose-egg lump on my leg was going to last a good long time.
So I limped all over Australia and New Zealand. Then I got blisters on my other foot, probably because I was walking funny; then I could walk only by doing a sort of shuffle-shuffle-hop, which was even a funnier walk than before.
I also developed a urinary tract infection while I was in the outback, about 500 miles away from anything else.
Royal Flying Doctor Service to the rescue! They had a little clinic at Ayers Rock resort that gave me some antibiotics.
The next day I woke up with a big spot floating around in front of my eye. Jim said, "Oh, that's just a floater--I have them. It happens when you get old." Dr. Liz said, "It could be a sign of a detached retina--but probably not." So I had spots in front of my eyes for the rest of the trip, but apparently it is just a floater, and it is just one of those things that happens as you get older. Dr. Liz says it must be hell getting old.
Then I got a cold and a sinus infection as soon as I got back—probably from breathing all that airplane air with billions of germs floating around in it.
You thought you were going to get a mini-travelogue, or at least something about a pound cake, and all you get is a tale of woe.
Despite these woes, the holiday was amazing. (I'm going to start saying holiday instead of vacation and rubbish instead of trash, in order to sound more cosmopolitan). I loved Sydney, and would like to go back there for several months, in order to explore the city and some other areas in Australia.
The south island in New Zealand was perhaps the most beautiful place I've ever seen, especially the trip from Queenstown to Milford Sound.
We did a tour of some wineries on the south island, and I'm trying to track down some of those wines, especially the pinot noir, to buy locally. Jim will probably post some pictures eventually, but now it's time for me to get back to the subject at hand—baking.
On Mother's Day, I baked the first project of the Lazy Bakers' No-Rules Club. The second project was a vanilla-bean pound cake recipe from The Cake Bible. It seemed only appropriate to bake another project for Father's Day. Since it was my choice, I guess I have to post the recipe, so here it is:
3 tablespoons (45 grams) milk
1 vanilla bean
3 large eggs
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups (150 grams) cake flour
3/4 cup (150 grams) sugar
3/4 teaspoon (3.7 grams) baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
13 tablespoons (184 grams) unsalted butter, softened
Split vanilla bean in half lengthwise, place it in a small saucepan with the milk and scald the milk. Cover pan, remove from heat, and cool to room temperature. Remove vanilla bean and scrape black grans from its center into the milk.
In a medium bowl, combine the vanilla-infused milk, eggs, and vanilla.
Combine dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix on low speed for about 30 seconds. Add butter and half the egg mixture. Mix on low speed until dru ingredients are moistened. Increase to medium speed and beat for one minute.
Scrape down the sides and add the rest of the egg mixture in two batches, beating for 20 seconds after each addition.
Scrape batter into a buttered and floured 8" x 4" x 2 1/2" loaf pan and smooth the surface. Bake 55 to 65 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cover looselyly with buttered foil after 30 minutes to prevent overbrowning.
Let the cake cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes and invert onto a greased wire rack. Reinvert so the top is up. Cool completely.
Melinda Pickworth won a massive amount of vanilla beans in a vanilla-bean-lottery she participated in, and she generously shared them, so I have a bunch of vanilla beans to use before they dry up and wither away. Since I love Rose's recipe for pound cake, it seemed like a good idea to bake the vanilla-bean variation. And it was a good idea.
Here is why I like Rose's pound cake: 1) it's easy; 2) it tastes magnificent, with a tender but still substantial texture, a rich, buttery taste, and a slight buttery crunch to the crust; 3) it's not so big that I will gain five pounds if I should happen to eat the whole cake; and 4) pound cake is the best excuse in the world to add fresh fruit and whipped cream to the dessert plate. The pound cakes are best made in a small loaf pan. Rose says they're better if they're kept small, and she advises against doubling them, so I never have, but I'll bet if you wanted a cake that would fill a whole bundt pan, you could double the recipe anyway and it would still be delicious.
I was hoping that the vanilla beans would be a little bigger, so they'd be more noticeable in the cake, as in Edy's Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, which our family always called "ant gut ice cream." But, since you can't really see the vanilla beans very well in this cake, I can't very well call it Ant Gut Cake.
Served with whipped cream and fresh strawberries and blueberries, this cake was a very satisfying end to a casual Father's Day dinner. Jim said it was more than he deserved, and he is probably right.
23 comments:
- Melinda said...
Dear, dear Marie! For heaven sakes!
I am so sorry to hear that you have had such rotten and miserable things happen just before and during your trip! It's just awful but very funny!
You poor thing.
You certainly have my sympathies regarding sore feet. The last 5 trips I have done always involve something horrible happening to my feet. Really.
I am glad you were able to enjoy your trip despite it all. I am sure you hardly complained. (yeah?)
I haven't done any blog baking while you were away.
I am impressed that you managed to get the vanilla pound cake done. I am going to do it for my husband's birthday on Wednesday, plus it is Wimbledon fortnight so there will be a nod to the English strawberry too!
Your pound cake looks yummy.
Is your haematoma still with you? Eat pineapple regularly...it is suppose to help break down tissue injury such as bruises (haematomas,
and that is the special UK spelling just for you!)
I'd like to hear more about your trip even if it involves more illness and mishaps!
Despite teasing you, I do hope you are feeling better and have been able to go back to work! Argh!
- evil cake lady said...
Your pound cake looks lovely. I was just thinking to myself tonight that it was high time I get it together and bake that vanilla pound cake. But then I baked something else instead!
I am sorry you had so many medical mishaps during your trip, but your photos are amazing! If that helps. If you would like to hire a personal acupuncturist to go around with you and treat you during your next holiday, I'm available.
- breadbasketcase said...
I've done more complaining about my cold, which came after the trip, than I did during the trip. I guess I had enough distractions to keep my mind off my mishaps. And how is your foot?
Yes, my haematoma (thank you!) is still with me. Thanks for the pineapple tip.
By the way, Sarah has now decided that she thinks she wants to go to Paris or Prague instead of England for her graduation trip. But I will come to England sometime in the next few years, I promise!
In fact, I think we should have a Lazy Bakers' Convention in London.
I can't wait to see your pound cake. Your cakes always look so delicious. I love the idea of a personal acupuncturist! I suppose I would have to pay all your expenses? I'll have to run that by Jim.
- jini said...
well marie i'm glad to see you have returned. i suspected you had moved to those down under places. it sounds like a wonderful trip except for the physical aches and pains, but seeing new things makes for good medicine!
we have always wanted to take that trip so i will look forward to your tales of travel.
oh.....and the cake looks very yummy!
Hi Marie!
I have never posted here, but I really enjoy your blog and tune in weekly to see what you are up to. I love your writing style (especially your humor and candor). I loved following your journey with TBB and was so happy to see that RLB came for dinner.
Anyway, I wanted to post about a great way to preserve vanilla beans. It comes from "The Loaves and Fishes Cookbook." Here you go:
12 vanilla beans
3 cups vodka
Place the beans in a tall jar with a tight-fitting lid. Pour the vodka over them and store at room temperature for about three weeks (it takes that long to soften the beans).
When you need vanilla, take a bean out of the vodka, cut the tip, and squeeze some of the essence into your recipe. Return the bean to the vodka, and it will continue to work. From time to time, you may have to add a little vodka to the top of the jar so that the beans are covered at all times. Beans can be preserved for years following this method.
Hope this helps!
All my best,
Laura Lee
- Doughadear said...
Hi Marie, glad you are back from your wonderful trip. So sorry about you mishaps. I can totally sympathize as I broke a toe just before I left for a Las Vegas trip. I had packed a few pairs of shoes but they were too painful to wear and had to wear flip flops even when I went out to a fancy resturant. Welcome to the floaters club I've been a member for a couple of years. Hope to make it to Autstralia one day as my husband was born there.
Pound cakes are one of my favourite cakes and yours looks heavenly.
Welcome back.
Nice to have you back on your blog, I look forward to reading your posts! Your holiday sounds marvellous apart from your aches and pains, but you will have lots of good memories I'm sure. My husband and I (I sound like our Queen, don't I?) came over to Canada 3 years ago and travelled from east to west , it was a wonderful holiday with lots of good memories and pictures to enjoy plus we met some very nice people.
Your cake looks perfect, I'm wondering whether mine will turn out so good without American cake flour, I have my doubts! Perhaps I'll make the one in Dorie's book as it uses AP flour instead. Jeannette.
- breadbasketcase said...
It really is true that seeing new things is good medicine, isn't it? It really is a boon to get out of your usual routine, and have a period where everything is new and everything is an adventure. I highly recommend the trip, although even 19 days was only enough time to barely scratch the surface.
Laura Lee,
Thanks so much for letting me know about the vodka method of preserving vanilla beans. I wonder if the vodka tastes good, too.
I didn't know your name was Oriana--I always think of you as Doughadear! (Oriana is a beautiful name, by the way). I brought four pairs of shoes along on this trip, but could only wear two--so I had some odd outfits too. I'm not glad that you have floaters (what a nuisance, especially when you're reading!)--but I am glad that you told me. My doctor said they're common "in older people," but I don't know anyone (except Jim) who has them. Maybe Jim and I are just the oldest people I know!
I didn't remember what an ordeal it is to get cake flour in England until I started making the recipe. But, as there are "no rules," I think it's perfectly okay to make the cake in Dorie's book.
It sounds like you've seen more of Canada than I have, even though Minnesota is next door to it. Two of my very favorite cities--Toronto and Vancouver--are in Canada.
- jini said...
edesia on monday?
- breadbasketcase said...
I can't make it on Monday--but I'm hoping to go to the one in July.
- jini said...
oh marie, you missed a really good one. the handmade brautwurst from clancey's was amazing! the home smoked bacon and brisket absolutely delicious, AND the carmelized bacon was to die for (and probably from.) like candy made with fat and sugar, what's not to like???
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On a side note, I love your Australia pictures. I was there last winter break - it's beautiful.
- Jennifer & Sandi said...
This is my first trip here and I love your site. I love baking and cooking and I collect recipe books.
I enjoyed your pictures of Australia. My husband (who has been in the wholesale wine and alcohol business for 30+ years) visited a winery there several years ago and just loved it.
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- pinknest said...
oh dear, i'm sorry for your woes! but still a fabulous-looking trip!
- breadbasketcase said...
You're too cruel to gloat about those amazing-sounding treats that you got to eat and I didn't!
Thanks for checking in. They make some excellent wines in Australia and New Zealand. Somehow I was hoping for $3 glasses of local wines at restaurants, but that didn't happen
My woes are pretty much over now, and it was a fabulous trip. It looks like Provence was fabulous too.
- Christine said...
sorry to hear about your woes!
On a more upbeat note: I made a super easy dessert a few weeks ago-grilled pound cake topped with grilled pineapple, whipped cream, and fresh raspberries. I think that recipe would be great with your vanilla bean pound cake!
- breadbasketcase said...
I've never thought about grilling pound cake, but, now that I think about it, it sounds like a good idea--especially as you describe it, with grilled pineapple, raspberries, and (of course) whipped cream.
- Chai18 said...
Found a bread recipe that you might find interesting:
- breadbasketcase said...
Chai 18,
Thanks for the recipe--it looks healthy and crunchy! Her recipe calls for some "dark whole wheat" flour, but mostly "whole wheat" flour, but the pictures look like it's mostly white flour, not all whole wheat. I'm pretty sure I'd use at least some white flour because I think the taste is better. Have you made this yourself?
- Chai18 said...
haha if only! I'm still a novice baker, I haven't worked my way up to breads, yet...though one would imagine having read your blog it would be enough inspiration to go ahead and master the art of bread baking....one day...
- breadbasketcase said...
You may not think so, but I consider myself a novice baker too. Rose is the one who's mastered bread baking--I still just follow directions. I'll consider myself good when (if ever) I can make up a recipe myself.
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