And I think that's the big difference in the last decade or so of pop culture: we now accumulate stuff rather than replace it.

As if no one read Balzac or Tolstoy after the 19th century? Or Steinbeck after 1940?

I get this guy's point that the digital distribution of TV shows and movies is a recent phenomenon, but so are TV shows themselves. He himself looks old enough to have grown up with the advent of TV.