Slashdot Mirror
TV's Tipping Point
alinv writes ": Ashley Highfield, the head of BBC New Media & Technology spoke yesterday at a conference about how TV is being radically changed by users: 'future TV will may be unrecognisable from today, defined not just by linear TV channels, packaged and scheduled by television executives, but instead will resemble more of a kaleidoscope, thousands of streams of content, some indistinguishable as actual channels.'"
There's nothing like catering specifically to the one person who likes Golden Girls reruns mixed in with heaps of porn.
"but instead will resemble more of a kaleidoscope"
Oh, yeah. Just what I want.
Just when TV was getting crappy enough (all reality shows, all the time), now it'll make me physically dizzy. THANKS, genius executives.
It's good to know that MTV will still be around in the future.
and STILL nothin' on.
"resemble more of a kaleidoscope, thousands of streams of content, some indistinguishable as actual channels."
So basically, all those years of watching scrambled porn channels are going to pay off big time.
Crystal Meth: Would you ingest somthing made from a poisonous gas and an explosive metal? You do it every day -- Salt!
A kaleidoscope? You mean that tube-thingy you look through with the mirrors inside that make it look like the same thing is in a lot of different places, but really they're all just pale reflections of each other?
Yeah.... I think I can see how TV might eventually evolve into that. [grin]
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
As TV continues to make the move toward pure digital information, how long will it be before we see the first TV-specific virus corrupting dowloaded shows?
"Honey, when did they add the Goatsex guy to the cast of Friends?"
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
My TV's tipping point is 47 degrees forward from vertical. Anything less and it falls back on its base.
bytesmythe
Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.
-- Scott Meyer
OK I find visualization useful here.
First, visualize a bunch of feces. Poop from different animals, and different diets. So different sized poop, different colored poop, and different smelling poop.
Ok, now start throwing that poop at your TV screen. When you are finished, that is your "kaleidoscope, thousands of streams of content, some indistinguishable as actual channels."
You see, you cannot distinguish which poop is which, but you do know there is a lot of poop there.
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
>>"audiences will want to organize and re-order content the way they want it"
>No, we dont, we want to use one button on a remote.
Unless it's a mouse...right?
Hopefully it's more like Suprnova.org
I'm not looking for TV to be a mindblowing experience; I can leave the house for those
Do you live in Amsterdam?
This space for rent.
Maybe, but t.v. is infinitely better than the Internet when it comes to zoning out after work
I agree, the internet is best left to zoning out during work
Anyone catch the product placement for lembas wafers as the party was leaving Lorien? "Lembas bread! One small bite can fill the stomach of a grown man!" I was waiting for the elves to start singing the Lembas[tm] jingle.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)