假日在家“狂看片”

　　十一假期，有人可能出去旅游，有人回家探親，有人則可能宅在屋里“狂看片”。你打算怎么過呢？

　　Binge viewing refers to a period of excessive indulgence spent watching previously broadcast episodes of a TV show.

　　Binge viewing指在一個時間段內將之前播過的電視節目一次看完，也就是我們口頭常說的“狂看片”。

　　Binge viewing is transforming the way people watch television and changing the economics of the industry. The passive couch potato of the broadcast era turned into the channel surfer, flipping through hundreds of cable channels. Now, technologies such as on-demand video and digital video recorders are giving rise to the binge viewer, who devours shows in quick succession—episode after episode, season after season. In the past, such sessions required buying stacks of costly DVDs or special broadcast marathons.

　　“狂看片”行為正在改變人們看電視的方式，也在改變電視行業的經濟形勢。過去純播送時代被動的“沙發土豆”們變成了頻道瀏覽者，游移于數百個有線頻道之中。如今，視頻點播和數字錄像機等技術讓越來越多的人變成了“看片狂人”，一集接一集，一季接一季地看劇集。過去，這樣大量看片是需要花錢買一堆DVD或者特殊播放時段才能實現的。