"And yes, on-demand is convenient: we have schedules.
Not perfect; not shared; yes, on-demand (yawn) and only sometimes as a "gig".
There was hardly any independent cinema, no home video, no video-on-demand (yes, TV was just getting launched — and Cahiers du Cinéma was, for its first issues, called Cahiers du Cinéma et de la Télévision), so a filmmaker who had ideas that Hollywood couldn't accommodate was, with very few exceptions, out of the industry, and, likely, of the cinema itself.
There was hardly any independent cinema, no home video, no video-on-demand (yes, TV was just getting launched and Cahiers du Cinéma was, for its first issues, called Cahiers du Cinéma et de la Télévision), so a filmmaker who had ideas that Hollywood couldn't accommodate was, with very few exceptions, out of the industry, and, likely, of the cinema itself.
If they had been recording and archiving every TV program out there, and then serving them on-demand, well yes that would have been illegal.
More broadly, Drover says it is hoping to tap into macro trends of the sharing economy, which affords an asset-light and on-demand lifestyle (yes, really!).
On-demand programming… yes, that is the best, isn't it?
People want on-demand, people.
In television, video-on-demand.
