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Online Video Begins To Threatens Television

Posted by kdawson on from the watching-a-different-box dept.

eldavojohn writes, "The BBC has an article reporting that a survey of 2,070 Britons revealed that online viewing is on the rise against television. From the article: 'Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result.' The figures the BBC is reporting are up from last year when they ran the same survey. It seems the digital world has disintermediated Magazines, Music, & Newspapers but somehow never really tapped books. Will the internet also take on the role as the family television?"

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  1. Disintermediated by Tx · · Score: 4, Funny

    You've just been looking for an excuse to use that word in an article, haven't you?

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    Oh no... it's the future.
    1. Re:Disintermediated by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny
      Disintermediated
      It's a pretty scary word, too. If we break it down, we see that it is a compound word derived from disinter- (to dig up a corpse) and -mediate (to intercede). Therefore, it's obvious that the digital world is a broker of graverobbing services, not a supplier of porn as commonly assumed.
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    2. Re:Disintermediated by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Funny
      Therefore, it's obvious that the digital world is a broker of graverobbing services, not a supplier of porn as commonly assumed.

      Among some circles, those are one and the same.

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      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  2. Re:This is surprising? by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . .more like 24/7 in three shifts

    Three shifts? I wish. The great thing about working on the Internet is that someone, somewhere in the world, thinks I've just come back from lunch no matter what time it is here.

    The great thing about working from home is that you get to choose which 168 hours a week you're going to work.

    KFG