snarlydwarf;593788 Wrote: > > It may look like freedom to choose what you watch, but the Giant Media > Conglomerates will determine your choices. Your choice will be "That > Which Is Profitable". Independence is out the window: if it can't get > a million views it's not worth it.
with all due respect snarlydwarf, I think you're wrong. i too work in the television business. i'm an editor of tv shows. People want easy access to media. The itunes store has proven that. So now we are moving from music to video due to technological advancements. There's simply no point in trying to fight the inevitable. Ease of use dictates what will be the future. as soon as someone makes a Hulu type product that allows viewers to easily pick what they want to watch when they want to watch it and on whatever tv they want to watch it on then it is as good as done. The old model of letting some giant conglomerate tell me when and where i can watch my entertainment and at the same time charging me a fortune for that dictatorship is nearly dead. local programming will survive just like movies survived tv and videotape and later dvd's. i could care less if i watch local programming on the web or through a cable box or rabbit ears. the core problem is that people are always afraid of change and I think sadly for those that work at local tv stations, the old model of local tv will have to change radically. i'm kinda shocked that local tv still cranks out the amount of programming that it does. I'm in san francisco so we have 4 local channels doing at least 3 newscasts a day. talk about overkill. the broadcast model is changing in a revolutionary way and thank god for it. bring on freedom of choice. -- exile ------------------------------------------------------------------------ exile's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82366 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
