Massive technological advances just over a short period of time have brought television a long way. Our image and perception associated with television are quickly changing from the actual definition of television!
The name Television is derived from telecommunications and vision being what you see. As it was first commercially available from 1920 it has seen the world spectating the First Man on the Moon, many Olympics and other various important events. In the mean time the Internet (most importantly computers) were developed forever more enticing the world populations to connect and communicate with more and more ease. Then Youtube.
What about Youtube?
When YouTube was first founded in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees it soon took off to be a majoring free video sharing site where it receives more than 1 billion visits a month, 100 hours of video every minute and over 250 years of video each day. Interesting. How many people watch more television than YouTube videos? Google claims it has beaten television already 8 years after Youtube's establishment. Not bad since television has been around for 80+ years.
Youtube is apart of the internet television, the new television. Vimeo, Dailymotion, you name it you can go and watch it. Furthermore you can now use smart tv's to watch Youtube, or your Xbox. Using Youtube means you can personally choose what you would like to watch at any given time of the day. Probably the prime reason Youtube is largely successful now. Entire documentaries, entertainment movies exist on internet television today.
Recently Youtube introduced the idea of paid subscription channels where large television publishers can run premium quality services and make a decent profit instead of having to use advertising. Well, lets hope both aren't used at the same time. Publishers such as Fox8, ESPN and SPEED will join Youtube and you can watch your favourite match over and over again when you would like it without having to pay for a recorder etc.
What about the future?
With the ever increasing speeds of bandwidth we will see higher quality streaming videos coming to our televisions to the point where television will be completely internet based or internet dominated.
Tuesday 16 July 2013
