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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. PVRs are already making TV unrecognizable by pudding7 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I didn't RTFA, but.... Since I got my Tivo, I have no idea what commercials are. Unfortunately, I think I'm missing some cool shows because I never watch live TV anymore.

  2. kind of... by heh2k · · Score: 5, Interesting

    like tivo? is this news? in the future, shows will probably be subscription based, so you can subscribe to just the shows you like. at least, that's how i'd like things. i don't watch 95% of the crap i get on cable.

  3. Four trends, no revolutions by ianscot · · Score: 4, Interesting
    1. consumers are ...choosing not just the 'what' they watch but also the when, how and where they watch it.

    2. the audience increasingly wants to join in and get closer to their media.

    3. ...consuming more media simultaneously...

    4. ...the last trend -- sharing.

    So in the future, we will watch multiple reality shows we can shape with our various "votes" at the same time -- a time of our choosing. We'll have sent each other some of the shows, too. This is a revolution?

    No one mindblowing idea here -- basically it seems like the BBC's thinking about that "Super -Electronic Programme Guide" to get a little ahead on interfaces, and they don't want to stonewall peer-to-peer models the way the music industry did.

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  4. Commercials Are: by 4of12 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since I got my Tivo, I have no idea what commercials are.

    Exactly. I know what they are.

    Commercials are: the break in the stream that requires you to hit fast forward for a few seconds.

    Commercials are: those pieces of programming that are having to become more entertaining and less obnoxious to have any chance of being seen.

    Commercials are: those artifacts of the 20th century that remind you just how painful it is to be fed a linear stream of programming.

    Commercials are: what have taught me how to watch the news on a TiVo - quickly hit pause and take a long potty break so I can FF through the commercials when I get back.

    Commercials are: those pieces of noisy time that still squat in the middle of broadcast radio feeds that have become so annoying to my sensitivities that I frequently have to turn the damn thing off because the signal to noise ratio is just so abominable compared with my TiVo enabled life.

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