Some of you might know, but I was heavily considering to major in animation years ago to someday have my own TV show like Genndy Tartakovsky and Craig McCracken did. However TV animation is not as strong as it was the past decades, especially in this multi-media rich era we have now.
Here is a great article that marks how the power on the 90s has vanished, but it does not mean doomsday for those who have entered the animation major.
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/the-end-of-the-creator-driven-era.html
That's a pretty bleak article. It doesn't take into consideration the fact that TV is pretty much a dying medium. "As TV audiences become more fragmented, and advertisers shift ad dollars away from TV, networks will increasingly rely on worn but reliable formulas" says this dude, and honestly that's probably for the best because although we're gonna have to put up with a few shitty years of TV, it's probably going to bring about the demise of television as we know it. It's likely that within the decade TV will be pushed aside by the internet and there'll be a big change in the way things are run. Things only look bleak to him because he's assuming TV is the be all and end all cartoons when more and more the internet is proving that it really isn't.
I don't quite see how TV could be eliminated outright. More pople are starting to use the internet for watching shows, but the computer just isn't as social a device as the TV is, and I don't think we'll ever see things like TV go away just because of things like sporting events, which are still a vastly profitable market for television. I especially don't see the internet as superior as long as computer connections to streams themselves are variable and prone to lagging or a loss of definition.
Unless you're suggesting the household TV will become a computer? That would bring up a whole slew of problems.
Quote from: Marlin Clock;1789357I don't quite see how TV could be eliminated outright. More pople are starting to use the internet for watching shows, but the computer just isn't as social a device as the TV is, and I don't think we'll ever see things like TV go away just because of things like sporting events, which are still a vastly profitable market for television. I especially don't see the internet as superior as long as computer connections to streams themselves are variable and prone to lagging or a loss of definition.
Unless you're suggesting the household TV will become a computer? That would bring up a whole slew of problems.
Broadband can already stream HD in real time.
I can see groups being a hard target to get at for internet video, but it's definitely possible.
Quote from: Marlin Clock;1789357I don't quite see how TV could be eliminated outright. More pople are starting to use the internet for watching shows, but the computer just isn't as social a device as the TV is, and I don't think we'll ever see things like TV go away just because of things like sporting events, which are still a vastly profitable market for television. I especially don't see the internet as superior as long as computer connections to streams themselves are variable and prone to lagging or a loss of definition.
Unless you're suggesting the household TV will become a computer? That would bring up a whole slew of problems.
It would definitely be a case of your TV being linked directly to the internet, people aren't all going to want to huddle around the computer. Most people up to 50 are completely internet savvy and streaming is getting better and more reliable. It seems pretty likely that in ten or fifteen years the internet-resistant section of the public will be a very small minority and all this iPlayer style stuff will be sophisticated enough that it can be depended on in the way TV can. TVs will work in essentially the same way but the channels will be various versions of iPlayer. There'll probably be a move away from scheduled programming and people will just watch stuff on demand. TV companies will likely try to pull some tricks to keep internet-TV from becoming as free as it is online but it won't last. People will still want to watch youtube and if someone independently makes a show that people want to see and puts it online, people will find it and watch it. Eventually professional TV stations will exist alongside independent ones. Obviously the big stations will still want to fuck everyone over and they'll buy up indie shows that do well but it'll still mean more artist-controlled programming for a while. Whether it'll last or not is another matter.
Obviously I can't say all this for sure but it definitely seems like the direction things are headed. Think of how big an effect youtube has had on the world and how much easier it's become to get stuff seen over the years. Really the only part of TV that isn't outdated is the size of the screen.
Quote from: clammo;1789497not everywhere. some areas in the USA still dont have internet providers, or only low-speed internet. even my internet isnt that great, where ill get caught in buffers on streams a lot of times (sometimes even on youtube!!)
Everyone will have super 962MB/s internet one day though. We're future-talking here after all.
Quote from: clammo;1789497i dont buy the idea that the internet can push out TV within the next 10, 15 or even 20 years. the exact same argument happened 50 years ago with movies, and a lot of people were saying that the TV signaled the end of the movie industry, but that was wrong. sure, we're not in the glory days of the movie industry anymore, but its still thriving. TV will find a way to survive by becoming more innovative (started with HD, then on-demand programming, now 3d) and in 40 years, something will come along to push the internet aside and we'll have this exact same argument all over again.
I don't think that the internet will replace TV ENTIRELY yet, but, already, a huge part of the population uses it daily to check videos and shit like that. People who become youtube/internet famous are becoming REAL famous, aka Chocolate Rain dude and all those other people get talked about on TV and shit, only everyone forgets about them entirely after about a month, since the internet is a lot faster moving than the televised visions.
The internet doesn't have to completely replace TV, it just has to rival it.
Quote from: clammo;1789497one major obstacle i see in the internet replacing TV entirely, is that i dont want to sit 8 ft away from my screen to read a forum, and i dont want to sit 2ft away from my screen to watch TV/movies. sure i can live with the latter, but i'd prefer to watch it on my HDTV every time. there is no middle ground in my opinion for this.
There is internet on everything, phones, toasters and even TV's. I used to watch a lot of Google Video on my Wii, hooked up to the TV. Plus there's media centres and all other shit. I'm sure some company will come up with an entertainment centre with some internet capabilities.
What I actually want to do, when I get money and my own house and shit. Is build a custom, small , Mini ITX PC, with maybe Linux on it, with all the GUI enlarged and shit, add wiimote/sensor bar capabilities, which is easily done, maybe go the opposite route and have sensor bar gloves or something, have a bunch of wireless controllers for different emulators and games. Put loads of games, emulators and roms on it, as well as huge libraries of movies and TV shows and hook it up to a massive 3D TV. I'm sure a company will eventually make something like that with internet capabilities.