TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It
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TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It
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#2This sort of thing just makes me more upset about youtube. Google has the future of video in the palm of their hands but they don't understand and don't care. Typical of a bloated empire.
I just hope that google doesn't destroy their golden goose merely because they are too incompetent to understand its value or importance.
Edit: Unrelated, I was annoyed by the quality of the "net subscriber adds" graph since it's obviously dominated by an annual signal, so I created a smoothed version (the raw data should be accurate to within ~5-10 pixels give or take): http://i.imgur.com/ffBzR8g.png
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#3Good riddance. I cut the cord about a year and a half ago and replaced my cable box with a Roku box. There was a brief period where I missed the background noise but now I find broadcast/cable television unbearably grating. Frankly I think the cable companies brought it upon themselves with the constant loud commercial interruptions, the garbage programming, and the utterly miserable cable box interfaces.
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#4Who needs stats... my teenage kids pretty much ignore 200 satellite channels and instead watch youtube, read forums and IM their friends.
When they were growing up I allowed them to be bombarded with information - TV on, web access, phones from an early age - and they've developed the ability to filter it quite well and just ignore things that don't interest them.
The only down side is:
"awww dad I didn't get anything done today" "why, son?" "some Internet happened"
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#5Making me turn on the TV at a specific time and date to watch something is such alien notion to me at this point. All of these shows worry about schedules and what's on other networks, but that's eventually not going to matter at all.
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#6TV may die, but content will not.
TV shows may die, but our need for storytelling will survive.
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#7I was called and agreed to be part of poll commissioned by some segment of the media industry a few weeks ago. The caller was speechless that I had no "TV" and listened to no radio stations.
Of course our two-person professional household has high-speed internet and a total of 8 "screens" including laptops, workstations, phones, tablets and a 50" screen for our media center.
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#8Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!
Re: TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It
#9Who needs stats... my teenage kids pretty much ignore 200 satellite channels and instead watch youtube, read forums and IM their friends. When they were growing up I allowed them to be bombarded with information - TV on, web access, phones from an early age - and they've developed the ability to filter it quite well and just ignore things that don't interest them. The only down side is: "awww dad I didn't get anythin…
I don't think TV will ever die because when your kids will be bored with forums, or have nothing on their watch list they will switch on their TV. When TV came, people thought it was an end to the film industry but nothing like that happened. Though, statistically speaking the future seems obscure for television and usage is declining but I am sure something for it will come up that may revive it.
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#10The demise of TV in a single chart:
http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2013-10-21/less-time-i...
Younger the viewers, less TV they watch.