Abstract
This chapter details some of the key distributional developments that have taken place as a result of the transition from an analogue to a digital mediascape. The chapter begins with a broad overview of some notable and pioneering research on TV’s temporal regimes and how these scholarly approaches have begun to shift in response to more recent industrial, legislative and technological changes. The remainder of this chapter examines three key technologies that have helped redefine the distributional and textual logics of contemporary TV in diverse but interconnected ways: the DVD, the DVR (sometimes referred to as the personal video recorder or PVR), and online TV. Ultimately, this chapter demonstrates that through a consideration of contemporary television’s industrial and technological composition, we can better understand the emergence of the temporally experimental narrative structures examined in the remainder of this book.
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Kelly, J. (2017). The Temporal Regimes of TVIII: From Broadcasting to Streaming. In: Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary US Television Drama. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63118-9_3
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