Comments on: Will Europe follow Chinese trend of substituting TV for YouTube? http://thenextweb.com/2008/08/25/will-europe-follow-chinese-trend-of-subsituting-tv-for-youtube/ International technology news, business & culture Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:18:10 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Boynton http://thenextweb.com/2008/08/25/will-europe-follow-chinese-trend-of-subsituting-tv-for-youtube/#comment-365921 Bob Boynton Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:06:02 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3614#comment-365921 This is an informative piece from NewTeeVee about the video coming out of the Democratic convention. Everybody is streaming. http://newteevee.com/2008/08/25/the-ultimate-web-video-guide-to-the-democratic-convention/ When you had rabbit ears you got three distributors and something close to three producers. When cable came along the distribution and production industry was changed quite dramatically. We have a new technology for distribution, and one surely should expect equally dramatic differences in distribution and production. It is going to be very different. I think we are in for much more variety. No enterprise is likely to capture huge chunks of the market in the way they have been able to do in the past. But I think we will all want to take advantage of these changes sitting in front of what we now call a TV set. This is an informative piece from NewTeeVee about the video coming out of the Democratic convention. Everybody is streaming.

http://newteevee.com/2008/08/25/the-ultimate-web-video-guide-to-the-democratic-convention/

When you had rabbit ears you got three distributors and something close to three producers. When cable came along the distribution and production industry was changed quite dramatically. We have a new technology for distribution, and one surely should expect equally dramatic differences in distribution and production. It is going to be very different.

I think we are in for much more variety. No enterprise is likely to capture huge chunks of the market in the way they have been able to do in the past.

But I think we will all want to take advantage of these changes sitting in front of what we now call a TV set.

]]> By: Ernst-Jan Pfauth http://thenextweb.com/2008/08/25/will-europe-follow-chinese-trend-of-subsituting-tv-for-youtube/#comment-365920 Ernst-Jan Pfauth Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:48:44 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3614#comment-365920 @Bob what about Apple TV? @Bob what about Apple TV?

]]> By: Bob Boynton http://thenextweb.com/2008/08/25/will-europe-follow-chinese-trend-of-subsituting-tv-for-youtube/#comment-365919 Bob Boynton Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:33:51 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3614#comment-365919 There is an awful lot of work going on to bring YouTube [the web in general] to your TV set. Tivo is the 'name brand' for doing it, but there are lots of others that will do the same. TV sets are big, they are getting excellent display properties, and then there is the couch. The 'environment' is better than sitting in front of a computer monitor. The most likely outcome is convergence -- it seems to me. There is an awful lot of work going on to bring YouTube [the web in general] to your TV set. Tivo is the ‘name brand’ for doing it, but there are lots of others that will do the same. TV sets are big, they are getting excellent display properties, and then there is the couch. The ‘environment’ is better than sitting in front of a computer monitor.

The most likely outcome is convergence — it seems to me.

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