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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. 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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  3. 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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