Television and the Internet
Tom Evslin at Fractals of Change describes the current state of IPTV…
“As you know, there’s plenty of video on the Web. You can go to YouTube and see almost anything you want, most of it dreadful but some of it pretty good. You can also post your own videos on YouTube and you can vote on YouTube videos to try to help other people find the good ones. But this isn’t TV, at least as we’ve known it…
…But all of the above still isn’t TV as we know it and doesn’t replace it (yet):
- Most of the content we can get on network and cable TV is not available on the Internet.
- Most Internet content is low def, certainly not the high definition stuff that makes you run out and buy an expensive LCD screen.
- With the exception of baseball, you can’t get realtime major league sports or much else in real time (except webcams).”
Read it all.