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Television Reloaded

Posted by timothy on from the lower-the-tv-slowly dept.

theodp writes "The TV times, they are a-changing. Over at Newsweek, Steven Levy offers a serious tome on the future of television, including time-shifting ("people will follow schedules only for real-time events like sports and election night"), space-shifting ("Now that you've stored your show on a TiVo, it's only logical to take it with you on your laptop, hand-held viewer or PSP game player") and the move from broadcast TV to broadband TV. Meanwhile, Conan O'Brien lightens things up with his own vision of the TV future ("Toddlers' bowls will have a television at the bottom, and children will be encouraged to eat all of their mush so they can see Morley Safer.")."

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  1. Newsweek, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Did he also mention you'll be able to change the news to suit your taste?

    1. Re:Newsweek, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Or CNN. Or MSNBC. Don't promote your dumb poltiical views. All news is entertainment, just like anything else. They target what they think will bring in the viewers, aka the money. This goes for all media, including TV, news, magazines, newspapers, everything.

      Sit down and shut up.

  2. Re:TELEVISION IS TEH NEW GOOGLE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Misandry on the tele painted this (the /.) demographic out of the picture. Attempting to recope the costs of pissing on a few generations of men through some paid advertising as news?

    The internet offers better alternatives, commercial time is up four minutes per 1/2 hrs from 25 years ago,

    How many guys who watch sci-fi shave their legs, wear lipstick and buy into obnoxious women billboarding themselves to other women? Demographics are totally fucked (tv welfare for the inept at 180,00 a year).

    TV is gone... and it's good thing

  3. Re:The Future is Now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah. There's no business flaw in providing things for free. Seriously, there isn't! It's not going to harm the companies behind the product who need money to produce the thing you are stealing.. I mean they are givng away for free. No, no, no. The business model is sound, honest.

  4. Americans are Der Juden by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I hate Americans.
    I am happy an American got beheaded.
    I wish more Americans had died on Sep. 11.
    I hate George Bush.
    I hate white men, even if I am a white man.
    I beleive the press should print lies, if they hurt America and Bu$Hilter Chimpy Mc Haliburten.
    I hate Israelis.
    I beleive that people that blow up Jewish children are justified and moral heros.
    My hate is politically correct hate.
    I am popular because of who I hate.
    I get modded up when I say these things on Slashdot.