The future of TV isn't TV?

[Simon B Kelly]

Tom Goodwin has written an interesting article on the current state of television:

www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-future-tv-isnt-tom-goodwin

I do wonder how long traditional TV via radio masts and satellites will continue. I got my first Freeview box back in 2002 but for the last few years I haven't sat down, even once, with the whole family and watched tv as it is being broadcast. Youngsters are always so busy watching something else as we've gone from a handful of channels to literally billions of channels in such a short space of time. Now anyone, anywhere, can make their own programmes in higher definition than most tv sets can handle!

The innocence and excitement of those early television productions does seem to have been lost forever...

Does anyone else miss the good ol' days when it was just BBC versus ITV?

Simon

[richardwoods]

Yes, speaking as someone who spent his later childhood & teenage years in the 1970's repairing and watching the 2 channels on 405 line TV sets, it was a golden age and there was always something good to view. However my own view is that the amount of viewing that appealed to me had declined through the early 1980's, well before Sky (& BSB) arrived. In an odd way, I feel that Sky+ has restored the quality of choice by making it more manageable, and we can sit down as a couple and watch an evenings quality TV together, albeit recorded on a hard drive. The real change is that, more of the programs we enjoy are made in America (mainly HBO, etc) rather than home grown these days which is really sad.

[Joe Haynes]

People still wait with excitement for the next installment of their favourite tv shows and spend lots of money buying them on home media. Scheduled TV will change and instant Series will be come normal. In someways it means that TV broadcasters will have to have alot more content for its viewers to consume, which will hopefull lead back to catalogue/archive shows it will all come full circle