Enjoying the thread! "TV is a dinosaur sleepwalking off a cliff." - classic.
TV is a cool medium. The whole world is fascinated with what's on TV - makes up a lot of what people do, say and think about all the time. Still, don't you think that the medium of the Internet - Interactive and instant protests, gatherings and media sharing is really showing it's power? Rage against the machine for xmas #1 was initiated on Facebook, but propelled with traditional TV media once the news hit. As the snowball got bigger, TV coverage also increased and so on. For me TV is 'trusted', always-on medium that is robustly delivered and doesn't often go wrong. Internet delivery can have these qualities - but for the sheer difference in end user platform and quality of delivery, we can't yet really say the same, can we? I'd love to see 1080p arrive via IP but it's not widespread enough yet. 4G will bring even more fun to the table with HDMI enabled 4G devices. But digressing - TV as a medium is evolutionary for sure. Originally black and white, delivered over huge sets with a lower resolution. Now we have impressive looking glass things on the wall serving up really good pictures over a digital medium. I don't know what's next for TV (anyone's guess is as good as mine) but I can have some fun imagining it too. --Matt On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Frank Wales <fr...@limov.com> wrote: > Rain wrote: >> >> Wot that pastime you only end up doing if you really, really have nothing >> better to to do instead? > > Oh, I know, I know! Is it: "debate the meaning of 'TV'"? > -- > Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
