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TV's Tipping Point

Posted by michael on from the high-center-of-gravity dept.

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.'"

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  1. The World of Tomorrow by TraumaHound · · Score: 5, Funny
    thousands of streams of content, some indistinguishable as actual channels.


    It's good to know that MTV will still be around in the future.
  2. 57 (000) channels by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 4, Funny

    and STILL nothin' on.

  3. Ah, the Glory days by snowlick · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

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  4. Waiting for the first TV Virus by Nova+Express · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?"

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  5. Experimental results by bytesmythe · · Score: 5, Funny

    My TV's tipping point is 47 degrees forward from vertical. Anything less and it falls back on its base.

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