The other day, I spent well over 2-hours going through all the stations on my cable TV, why you ask, well, because I didn't have the latest station listings, and I noted my old listing was all wrong, of course it is over 6-months old. After I was done writing down all the 500 plus channels on notebook paper, I found a newer directory listing, only 3-months old. Guess what, it didn't match completely either. "Hey," I thought, "that's not very fair!" Okay so, let's talk.
First of all, I speak English, not Spanish, but it seems that about 1/3 of the stations are in Spanish. No, I didn't write them down, except the Sports Soccer stations which are not available in English and I can always turn off the sound and watch my favorite Latin American teams play. I mean you know when someone scores, or when someone gets a yellow or red card right? Still, it seems that we all ought to be able to "turn off all the Spanish stations" or English if we spoke Spanish. This way they wouldn't interfere with our channel flipping, I mean who has time for that in this social media world of rapid Twitter communiques?
Next, not only should we have Al La Carte for cable TV, but we should also be able to "cluster" the stations we love making it easy for us to move around as we wish. When we turn on the TV, maybe it could ask us if we'd like to add a station or tell us that one on our list has been subtracted, something that as I understand it now, could happen for any reason at any time, and that's all specified in the fine-print none of us have ever read.
Let me explain why this is a problem. If you have music channels and you never listen to RAP, or Gospel, then you shouldn't have to flip between your three or four favorite rock stations and have to see those at all while searching for the one you want. Now then, some stations are clustered, most major news networks for instance, but not all, why? Well, my preference is different than other people's preference. So, instead of being able to customize we all get charged exorbitant rates for inconvenience every time we turn on the TV - "hey, that's not fair," you agree.
With all our modern technology, there is NO REASON, whatsoever that these customized features don't already exist. An entrepreneur who can make this work, either with Internet TV, Satellite TV, Cable TV, or some future version of TV could make 100s of millions of dollars - and the world of TV would be a better place. Please consider all this and think on it.
