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Sometime last quarter, I happened to come home early from Mason’s class and catch a show called Heroes. It runs Monday night on NBC, and it’s one of the best new shows I’ve seen in a while.

I missed about the first five minutes of the show, but at the end, the announcer said, in his dramatic grumble, that the most recent episode was available to watch online. So, for weeks, I would watch the show every Tuesday morning, until the show took a mid-season break, convienently coinciding with my break from school.

When I got back, I tried to watch the first new show the day after it aired, but my network had major problems that day, and it wouldn’t run smoothly at all. Eventually, I talked myself into buying the season pass from iTunes, and it was well worth it. Tuesday morning, when the new show is released, iTunes will automatically download each new episode. It’s been my first experience with buying content online, and I’ve enjoyed it. We still live with network connections and processors that haven’t yet anticipated what the internet is and will become. I look forward to a time when content is on demand at any time, from anywhere, but for now, having content on portable device ready to be viewed is alright.

But it makes you think: If live television programming goes away, or plays a diminished role, how would you find new content? If I hadn’t been home and caught the show that day, or if Fox didn’t put The Winner in between  The Simpsons and Family Guy, I probably never would have watched it in all it’s moderate humor.

Anyways, if you’ve got about 18 hours to kill, go to http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/ and watch all 18 episodes. It’s just about the best show I’ve ever seen.

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