Comments on: TV to Internet or Internet to TV? http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/02/tv-to-internet-or-internet-to-tv/ Where TV Finds the Future Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:12:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: thedetroitchannel http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/02/tv-to-internet-or-internet-to-tv/#comment-85585 thedetroitchannel Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:32:51 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/02/tv-to-internet-or-internet-to-tv/#comment-85585 you can have fun in the Middle East? you can have fun in the Middle East?

]]> By: Malcolm Thomson http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/02/tv-to-internet-or-internet-to-tv/#comment-85334 Malcolm Thomson Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:55:18 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/02/tv-to-internet-or-internet-to-tv/#comment-85334 WaPo has been reading Jeff Jarvis, Mark Glaser, LostRemote, Unmediated and, every Monday, MediaGuardian. The best of all of the above I re-blog for colleagues here in the Middle East. I think one of the problems is our 'adult' mindset; we are of generations which like to have things perfectly defined, compartmentalized, unionized and monetized. The kids, the millennials, have no such expectation or even need; they are at home with multi-tasking, happy with niche media, ever ready to move on when today's hot thing morphs into tomorrow's. Television, compartmentalized, is over. Look at the impulses coming from the Digital Signage sector, from people who don't see themselves as in the television business. Look at the publishers of eZines which include textual, graphical and audiovisual components delivering an increasingly rich communications and entertainment mix. There is no single 'next big thing' we can comfortably define and ring-fence. Let's settle for radical discontinuous change, media flux, in a constant state of 'becoming'. And, above all, we need to have fun with it. WaPo has been reading Jeff Jarvis, Mark Glaser, LostRemote, Unmediated and, every Monday, MediaGuardian.

The best of all of the above I re-blog for colleagues here in the Middle East. I think one of the problems is our ‘adult’ mindset; we are of generations which like to have things perfectly defined, compartmentalized, unionized and monetized. The kids, the millennials, have no such expectation or even need; they are at home with multi-tasking, happy with niche media, ever ready to move on when today’s hot thing morphs into tomorrow’s.

Television, compartmentalized, is over. Look at the impulses coming from the Digital Signage sector, from people who don’t see themselves as in the television business. Look at the publishers of eZines which include textual, graphical and audiovisual components delivering an increasingly rich communications and entertainment mix.

There is no single ‘next big thing’ we can comfortably define and ring-fence. Let’s settle for radical discontinuous change, media flux, in a constant state of ‘becoming’. And, above all, we need to have fun with it.

]]> By: Media Blog http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/02/tv-to-internet-or-internet-to-tv/#comment-84484 Media Blog Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:53:18 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/02/tv-to-internet-or-internet-to-tv/#comment-84484 Broadcast as a technology, and even cable, are deadmen walking. In fact, broadcast and cable (as we know them today) will disappear before newsprint does. Digital delivery is advancing so fast, and such a better technology for delivering non-text content, that it will eventually become the sole delivery method for content in most homes. Text is a slightly different nuance, but it has a finite future, too. Of course, the change will have (and is having) tremendous implications for how and why content is produced, and who controls the means of production. Broadcast as a technology, and even cable, are deadmen walking. In fact, broadcast and cable (as we know them today) will disappear before newsprint does. Digital delivery is advancing so fast, and such a better technology for delivering non-text content, that it will eventually become the sole delivery method for content in most homes. Text is a slightly different nuance, but it has a finite future, too.

Of course, the change will have (and is having) tremendous implications for how and why content is produced, and who controls the means of production.

]]> By: Steve http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/02/tv-to-internet-or-internet-to-tv/#comment-84178 Steve Sun, 03 Dec 2006 06:04:16 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/02/tv-to-internet-or-internet-to-tv/#comment-84178 Hey -- WebTV, or MSNTV as it's now known is the device I'm using right now to write this. Hey — WebTV, or MSNTV as it’s now known is the device I’m using right now to write this.

]]> By: Dave http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/02/tv-to-internet-or-internet-to-tv/#comment-83878 Dave Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:14:30 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/02/tv-to-internet-or-internet-to-tv/#comment-83878 Pointless debate. You still get the same result in the end. The reality is that both the tech industry and the tv industry have to change their business models. Just for nostalgia... Anyone remember "WebTV" devices? Pointless debate. You still get the same result in the end. The reality is that both the tech industry and the tv industry have to change their business models.

Just for nostalgia… Anyone remember “WebTV” devices?

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