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    Today I am channeling my "inner Milennial" by doing an exercise to determine what would be a more financially responsible choice for my personal T/V viewing: OTT (over-the-top) options where I build my own unbundled VOD programming system, or the traditional, bundled cable television subscription I've habitually had since the 1980s.
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    Recently, while reading about Amazon's new Web series, I had a flashback moment to 2004, when we addressed the Internet's potential influence on video content, whether we'd be "leaning forward or leaning back", and other issues of the unknown. These discussions focused on the new storytelling, how the structure of the story would change, be it interactive stories or cat videos as new forms of entertainment. Looking back, it's clear that theories got it all wrong. Technology doesn't drive storytelling. The same content formats have existed for 75 years, since TV's early days.
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    Advertising pundits tend to talk about television and online video as an either-or choice. In fact, it's much more productive to discuss them from a "both" perspective.
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