» You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet – HBO Go, True Detective, and the Future of TV

tdgresearch.com: The finale of HBO’s True Detective crime series ran Sunday night in the US. The highlight of the night was not Matthew McConaughey’s final performance as Detective Rust Cohle, but the fact that HBO Go’s servers crashed under the traffic load, causing many viewers to miss the big event entirely.
Loyal TDG readers please feel free to correct me on this, but I believe this is the first time that a major first-run episode of a TV show crashed in real time on the night of airing. The first, but hardly the last.
What does this incident tell us about the rapidly changing nature of TV? Two things, both of which should make traditional TV folks more than a bit nervous.