A Remote Possibility

Netflix apparently gained in a lot subscribers after licensing Friends, because Hulu felt compelled to sign a $180 million deal to buy the rights to Seinfeld. It turns out the the new age of television looks a whole like its previous incarnations. Except, now, with apps on your set top box, your various streaming TV apparatuses, your DVD player, and built into the software powering your smartTV, it’s almost impossible to find and access a show with fewer than 14 remotes. Trying to tell someone how to find a modern show makes programming a VCR seem like a breeze. In the past, there was nothing on. Now, there’s too much on, but it’s harder to watch. It’s enough to make you get up and walk across the room and change the channel manually. But sadly, even that’s impossible because your new TV has no buttons or dials.