For years I have heard predictions that newspapers, magazines and books will fade away as they are replaced with digital media. I’ve protested. I can’t take a computer to bed with me, I don’t even want to. It just wouldn’t be as comfortable as taking a paperback which I can fall asleep with and not worry if it falls out of bed during the night.
Today, thinking about television and the cost of it (over $50 a month for me) I started thinking that all the predictions could be right… but they’ve been looking in the wrong direction. It won’t be print publications that fall to the Internet but the digital signal we watch on our TV screens.
How many people already watch TV shows and movies online, in various ways and means? How simple would it be to just watch everything on the Internet instead of owning a television and paying for cable service along with digital boxes and HDTV and other extras they convince people they just have to have? Would it really be any hardship to watch TV on the Internet? I don’t think so. Usually I only have it running in the background while I’m online anyway, I hardly notice what show is on unless I find one I actually want to watch, the odd time.
Can you debate this, for and against? Come up with 3 points for each side, just for fun.
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I’m not sure that I have a preference one way or the other… I do feel that if my TV activities and my computer activities all suddenly were dependant on ONE piece of machinery, with me being an avid TV watcher AND a serious writer, one or the other would suffer. And that one piece of machinery would most certainly explode from over-use.
But at the same time, I wouldn’t mind if everything were on one machine.
My best friend never uses her TV now. She has already gone strictly computer and watches TV on the Internet. She’s pretty happy, too.
Interesting post!
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