>>>It doesn't loose anything from the previous community was my point.
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>>But it does: the very fact that this is duplex communication and that the content will wait for any newcomer changes the nature of the community. It is not synchronous, and not dependent on one central source of content. The community can easily move elsewhere, reappear, be at several places at almost the same time, it's much more loose.
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>But people own content, and in the case of TV shows, they have a schedule for releasing new episodes.

Oh, those people.

This schedule, as another difference, doesn't have to fit into any prime time hours, other shows, the rest of the daily schedule, nothing. The schedule is now quite independent.

>The community will center around the creative source of their favorite show. Not every viewer, but the community.
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>The bulk of the loyal community is going to be waiting for new episodes together.

This new breadth of choice is another difference. With TV, you had a few, then a few dozen choices. At any particular moment your choice was actually limited to nothing but what was on at the moment. For example, you cannot watch a new episode of anything on the superbowl night on TV. On the web, you don't care what day it is.

>>What is lost here is that synchronicity (they all saw the same episode last night at 9) and exclusivity (they didn't watch anything else for a full hour) and homogeneousness (they were all doing the same thing at the same time).
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>But those things will remain.

Some things will remain, of course. But their meaning, and specially importance, changes.

>Putting Desperate Housewives on the Internet isn't going to prevent everyone from watching it at the same time.

But it doesn't force them to watch it at the same time. Pretty much like the difference between the drummer shouting out the news for anyone who'll hear them at the moment, and the newspaper which will wait for you to read them. On TV, if you're not there at the time, you've missed it and have to wait for a re-run. On web, it waits. The definition of "same time" has changed. Your friend can ping you the url of something cool to see, there's an awesome scene in 34th minute, and you can be in the bathroom - never mind, when you get out, you can follow it, and watch the same thing with a few minutes or hours of delay. Try that with TV. And yet you did see it at (approximately) the same time as your friend - same evening.

So there's a difference between watching at the same time "because we know it runs at 21:00 and we'll be waiting for it to start" (aka 9pm), and "because we got the subscriber's notice and will look it up sometime today, and will pass it on to more people if we like it". It's almost as different as crowd at the boxing match is different from the crowd watching a street fight. One is scheduled, other is like a flash mob.