Is TV Still the Future? Internet TV and Apple

[Kim Welch]

I was just reading this article "Here Comes Apple's Real TV"
by Ben Kunz

"TV is the future because it remains king of all media. While handsets get hyped, the typical U.S. consumer watches 5 hours and 9 minutes of TV a day, according to Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN - News), and even younger adults 18 to 24 years old—the supposed digital generation—view 3 hours and 30 minutes on televisions daily, vs. only 49 minutes on the Web and 20 minutes on mobile. We all love to lean back. With so much of the consumer's time, TV has become bloated with waste. The average U.S. home receives 130 cable channels but "tunes to"—or punches in the exact channel number on the remote—just 18 channels a year. Channel surfing has died. A whopping 86% of available channels are never used by an individual viewer."

 

[garychencool]

The only way Internet TV will be full on is when everyone has fast internet, no DL caps since most ISPs have bandwidth caps, also cable TV has no compression (you know what I mean) and it's on its own dedicated line, and I want it to stay that way, don't want my mom sucking up the internet watching dramas while I try to frag noobs in CS...

 

[Kim Welch]

All in One seems to go so far

All in One seems to go so far

The thing the internet entertainment brought to us is the interactivity in the form of personalization and socialization. I don't think the all in one is going to take over TV and Theater types of entertainment. Or maybe it will but the modes of watching it probably won't change much. I don't see us sitting our desks watching movies, right?

 

[documentarytube]

Watching films on your TV allows for comfort on the couch, watching TV on computer most often involves sitting at a chair- I think this needs to be addressed before people will seriously consider making TV the thing of the past. In my eyes, TV will remain, it's iconic and I like it!

 

[documentarytube]

I think watching TV online would be the name of game in future, everything will be connected through internet and tablet PCs would play a major role. I love using iPad to watch stuff on the go.

 

[garychencool]

Watching films on your TV allows for comfort on the couch, watching TV on computer most often involves sitting at a chair- I think this needs to be addressed before people will seriously consider making TV the thing of the past. In my eyes, TV will remain, it's iconic and I like it!

Computer hooked up to TV, you chill on couch, win.