The zero-sum schedule of TV time
Stowe Boyd looks at the great McLuhanesque Mandala of one medium turning into the next as the BBC reports that internet video viewing has grown large enough to start cutting into old TV viewing. Says the Beeb: “Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result.”
Tags: Exploding_TV
November 29th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Wait ’til Apple Computer starts producing wide screen high resolution dispalys with a MacMini incorporated. Complete with software to access video on the Internet. Broadcast video is going to scream bloody murder.
November 30th, 2006 at 5:28 am
It’s as good as CSpan, getting to see what’s actually happening and skipping commercials. Those of us on dialup may be the only tv audience left for awhile - until we get wireless.
November 30th, 2006 at 10:30 am
So is everyone who has a computer in England going to have to pay a licence fee?
November 30th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
That’s why networks need to worry more about making stuff, be it for TV, the web, or wherever, and less about their TV ratings.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:40 am
[...] What’s the point of broadcast TV anymore? Eighty-eight percent of Americans receive TV via cable or satellite. And now, of course, there are more ways to get video: the internet, mobile, and soon mobile satellite. Our kids have no idea what the difference between a broadcast and a cable channel is. Soon, they won’t have any idea what the difference between cable and internet TV is. And before you know it, they won’t know the difference between professional and amateur TV. [...]