Joss Whedon anti-binge watching argument

What streaming CAN do is make people feel a bit entitled when it comes to when a sequel series is coming out. Take House Of Cards - it's on one day a year in essence wheras on Showtime it would be a quarter of the year. You don't have it rationed out and perhaps because you don't live with it every week for months it doesn't truly ebrace you the way other shows on "normal" TV do. I'm not sure about his argument though, a lot of people have always just used telly as ambient noise. Perhaps Joss means, and I'd agree if so, that it creates a need for more and more quality content more often. Remember last summer when Stranger Things hit? Only a few weeks after you'd see people giving it "Oh, you're just getting round to it, we watched it ages ago" as though it were a relic. There's certainly an element of "what has Netflix done for me lately?" when it comes to those people, I guess.

It's funny Joss being the one to mention it as Buffy was one of the first shows to benefit from affordable season sets on DVD. Anyone who was old enough to shop before the millenium will remember when we used to pay £13 for two episodes of Buffy when it first hit video. Within 2 years it was £50 for a whole season on DVD. By what? 2002 or so, box-sets were everywhere for TV shows and binging took off like never before.  Very few American shows with 22 or 24 eps a season got full releases on video due to cost. Best Ofs were more likely - I think the first Simpsons season was as late 2004, before that it was always random eps on a video. Binge watching was always going to happen more and more when DVDs became so cheap, and now we've moved beyond that and Netflix gives us thousands of boxsets at a button, moreso. Despite a nostalgic paen for video shops and the thrill of the chase, I don't think I'm terribly nostalgic for the days of less choice.