Death of the tee vee media FILTER!

[Joanne98]

In the first global recession of the Internet Age, budget-conscious consumers are showing they no longer have an endless appetite for every new gadget or media service.

Many users are looking to eliminate overlapping services that offer more of the same old formula entertainment in a different package or on another device.

With iPods, digital TVs, video recorders, multimedia PCs and broadband connections in many households, consumers considering their options now find a range of cost-effective online substitutes for broadcast, cable or satellite TV.

TV programming, not just short-form entertainment, is served up on video sites in markets around the globe at Google Inc’s YouTube, Daily Motion, Joost or at Hulu in the United States.

Could 2009 then be the year we seriously ask “What’s on the internet?” rather than “What’s on television?”

A study released last week by the consulting group Deloitte on media consumption habits suggests that this digital switchover may be occurring before our eyes.

The survey, completed in October, of U.S. consumers aged 14 to 75 found that a majority of consumers already see their PCs as more of an entertainment device than they do TVs.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/01/12/do-tough-times-draw-tv-viewers-to-web/

[ananda]

1. Hulu is pretty cool.

I started watching tv shows on the internet this year.
Along the way, I discovered Hulu and it's great.

Netflix is offering play service on the internet too.

I still have cable tv with Time Warner.. ughh I know..
and they way overcharge.

At some point, maybe I won't feel as though I even
need cable tv.

[yy4me]

2. Seems about right to me. Everyone I know talks about the

horrible offerings we have on TV. I suppose that may vary if you live in a different area or have 300 channels from which to choose. Here we have Comcast for a cable provider and what they offer to our town is such drivel that many of us check to see what we can find in the Internet instead. Many have dropped Cable TV because the expense is just not worth it. I keep it because my Internet rate will go up if I drop cable. They have us coming and going. Verizon is bidding to compete with Comcast here and if they get the nod, maybe their FIOS will offer us something to cause me to turn on the TV again.

Except for the Inauguration which I will watch, off again goes the power strip for the TV end of day, Jan 20th.

[rocktivity]

3. But consider the other aspect of media "consumption"--the "food" itself

If the presidential campaign proved anything, the public are losing their "taste" for prefabricated news when the blogosphere is serving up a much "tastier" fare. Early in the campaign, the corporate media talked often of McCain's "good relationship" with the press--clearly the business-as-usual game plan was to magnify Obama's imperfections while ignoring McCain's and Palin's. But that didn't work because the blogosphere forced them to be more fair and balanced.

As for me, I'm at the point where I think of my cable TV as an extra I get with my high-speed Internet. And I'm certainly not going to waste my time watch a review of Bush's legacy by Chris Matthews, who spent the previous eight years cheering him relentlessly.

:headbang:
rocknation