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All I really knew was that I had found the perfect place on the perfect wave, and I had remained there endlessly. Forever.
Allan Weisbecker, from In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer’s Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road.
Time to give up TV?
December 23, 2008
There’s an interesting piece in the Independent today hypothesizing that this Thursday might just be “the last Christmas Day on which everyone in Britain watches the same programmes at the same time.” The reason is not, sadly, because next year the country is set to awaken from its decades-long mass hyponosis to realize just how bad Christmas TV is, but because of that new-fangled thing, television-on-demand.
Television-on-demand will, says the Indy, herald the end of the linear channel as broadcasters engage their viewers in a plethora of ways. The internet is, of course, key to the televisual revolution, one which is already seeing the move to create “an industry standard” and which will see parents watching television in the living room while their offspring commune with media via applications such as iPhones and laptops. Even sitting down to eat the turkey won’t make much difference to this multi-media onslaught.
The Indy might be right, but Blade confesses to a degree of unseasonal cyncisim. Television-on-demand, “Catch-up TV” and the end of the TV experience as we know it have been heralded, promised and predicted for the last 15 years. No doubt things will change one of these days, but Blade fears that we’re more likely to see the demise of a national newspaper than the end of our love affair with television. Let’s hope it’s not the Independent.
One Response to “Time to give up TV?”
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Jade
Posted: Aug 27th, 2009 at 2:04 pm1I was reading this article with a quiet excitement, it has dawned on me that we are entering the future. Technological advancements are so frequent now that I believe the medium of television as we knew it will indeed soon be outdated. So I will be enjoying my Christmas dinners this year with the Queen on in the background in the knowledge that next year, my Christmas party fun will probably come in the form of internet tv. However, I don’t think the same will apply for New Year’s Eve. There’s no better medium to watch the New Year come in!
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