Television is dead
Long live the Internet, goodbye TV.
Ten years ago I was a telly addict. I remember doing very little other than sitting in front of the box watching The Simpsons or being forced to watch Coronation Street – well that’s what I claimed.
Today, I couldn’t tell you the last time I sat for more than a half hour in front of the television. I now look at it as a waste of time and feel I could be doing something more interesting instead.
I only recently noticed this, and what struck me more was the amount of time I spent on the Internet. The Internet has become a part of mainstream life for me. As the Internet has improved, we are changing our lives to adapt it. Whereas dial-up is still in existence for a small part of the country, broadband is becoming more widespread. With the emergence of mobile broadband along with high speed home service there is very little you can’t do online today.
At this moment in time, if you were to peak into people’s living rooms (not that I suggest you do that), you will see people sitting in front of the television with their laptops in front of them. They have one eye on the box and the other on Bebo. As we all know, television services already have systems set up so you can watch your favourite programmes free of charge but this is all too static and sometimes you can only watch these programmes in your own country.
Recently I discovered free live streaming services on the Internet. These services included movies, news, music and sport. People stream live events such as the latest cinema release or the Liverpool soccer match. Was I surprised by this? No, in a way I expected it. What was more outstanding was the amount of people watching them. Millions and millions were watching the same thing as me, all LIVE!
Where there are people in that amount, advertisers are not too far behind. As television stations struggle to maintain advertisement sponsorship, it won’t be too long before money is defected from television stations to the Internet.
What happens next is inevitable; television stations will try to get these sites shut down but fail, hence increasing these website’s popularity, leading to advertisers becoming even more interested. Soon afterwards production companies will tap into this and it won’t be too long before the first programme or series is created solely for the Internet. Then someone will have a brainwave and the Internet’s first free LIVE streaming Intervision channel will be created leading to the demise of traditional television as we know it.
Will television disappear altogether? Not at all. In the way television replaced radio, the Internet will replace television. Just like we all have a radio today, we will use television sets, and I would put money on it we are not too far away from this situation.
Television is dead, long live the Internet!!!
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