TV vs. the Internet
Web portals are becoming more
popular than newspapers and magazines. One of the most popular magazines , “Newsweek”(American version), ceased
print publication on December 31, 2012. Now „Newsweek” is available only
in the electronic version. Encyclopedia Britannica is the oldest
English-language encyclopedia. It was first published in 1768. In March 2012
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. announced it would no longer publish printed
editions and would focus instead on the online version.
Paper
version of newspapers, magazines and books losing out with the online
version. Many people believe TV will
have share the same future. But is it
true?
Still,
there are a lot of people who love watching TV. Every single day the news is watched
by millions of viewers. The number of sold TV sets is growing up in
Poland and abroad. YouTubers have their own shows on TV, we can see them in TV
commercial. Modern TV shows are connected with social media. Viewers can tweet
about these shows. Most valuable tweets are presented on TV. TV stations
organizing voting for man of the match or winner of the debate on Twitter or
Facebook. Results of these are presented on TV.
What
about technology? Most innovative electronic companies, like Sony, stopped producing
traditional TV sets. Now they are producing Smart TV. Internet brands like
Spotify, YouTube have Smart TV apps. So TV is only one of many options that you
can choose from.
I
think that there is no loser of this battle.
Comments
Nowadays, it's very popular solution for many people.
What's more, the same situation is with news. Thanks to considered titles we can choose valuable content very fast. It's not discovery that for everybody the most significant role plays time we find the proper information. That's why TV lost its popularity.
Moreover, TV station presents statements which aren't impartial. The problem is some people defend only one side of an issue, because their favourite channel brings only selective information. Especially if it comes to politics. This is another reason the Internet has big advantage - we can find many websites providing different points of view.
However, as you said it's still better to watch film/tv series online, when we want, without having to bypass the adds or without having one episode divided, like a public televion always does to everything longer than one hour.
We must accept ads, becouse somehow we must pay for watching movie or series. If we don't have money, watching ads is good thing. But if we have money and we hate ads, we buy premium account.
Talking about technologies, I as a developer really like new Smart-TVs, coz it’s a brand new platform to make apps on. And it’s a so-called “blue ocean” (there is no a lot of competition on market). I’d like to create some party game for smart TV on the next hackathon.
Since you can watch pretty much everything on the Internet why would you pay extra for the television?
I can't see any future for TV, at least not in current scheme. More and more stations, programs and content move to the Internet, and I can clearly see why. Maybe it's just my personal opinion but actual content and quality of television degraded drastically, and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody but people that don't know how to use PCs.
On the other hand, there is definitely a great advantage of using internet. Almost any TV show is online. All video clips or interviews are on YouTube. TV doesn't give the option of choosing what exactly you want to watch.
Smart TV is a combination of regular TV and internet. Everyone loves to watch favourite movies and vlogs on the high resolution screen. I think, there is no future for the regular TV. In our times it has no sense. But for people, who loves high resolution screens, who loves to watch some news or shows on TV, Smart Tv is a great way to connect those activities in one device.
On TV you can watch something new and interesting every time you switch a TV on. If you saw it already, just switch a channel and voilla. The most fun part on TV is that sometimes you can watch something that you wouldn't even choose by the title/genre. Sometimes you are watching a movie that seems to be very bad but after a while get's interesting and you watch the whole thing. Normally you wouldn't even turn it on.
Video Services (like YouTube, Netflix etc.) have very large database of titles to watch but usually you have to know exactly what you are looking for - sometimes that is something you have to search for a while. The advantage is that you can pause it and watch it later whenever you like - the TV without recorder won't do that.. and if - you still have to be near that recorder.
Both technologies have one very bad disadvantage. And that are commercials - seriously sometimes I'm recording some program on TV just to watch it later and pass through commercials. For me - this is a complete waste of my free time - and I don't have lot of it. On the Internet - commercials are getting nastier and more common. Try watching the news or sport web site without using Adblock, Ublock - etc. It's impossible to get through the number of commercials given. For me both technologies have to wake up - or more and more users will get used to paid Channels/Internet Services just to get rid of any kind of commercials - because people are starting to hate them as much as possible.
I can't stand watching TV. Actually I have Smart TV, but I use it only to surf different Internet channels, where I can find something really interesting and useful.
In my opinion, the internet has the advantage. But the TV will never die. It is very sad to me that everything is stored digitally. I think that for a thousand years it will not follow us nothing because as digital information is less durable than paper. For example, few people today no longer call the photos. Today we make photos by phones. We often lose them when you change your phone. When I broke my computer I lost a lot of photos.
I think in future people will buy TV sets only to watch things from online services.