Well the movie business is already suffering from this phenomenon and the products are getting increasingly more unwatchable.

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It was the perfect frame for a show that made the unwatchable watchable.

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Even when they are sold blank disks, or films that are unwatchable, few, if any, make an official complaint against those selling counterfeit disks.

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Jonah rings up a radio talk show to say that his dad needs love (this is almost unwatchable, but grit your teeth and stay with it).

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Today's worst programmes should be measured not against the best products of yesteryear but the worst: so slackly plotted, vapid and slow-moving that they are now almost unwatchable.

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Video playback remains limited, and our default test video, which is an .mp4, suffered from plenty of frame dropouts and decoding errors that made the image unwatchable in places.

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It might not seem like a big deal with all the 1080p TVs these days, but 1080i is actually still the most prevalent broadcast format and the way it's currently rendered by the Echo makes it unwatchable.

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When done poorly, it is unwatchable.

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