With the rise of services like YouTube, Netflix, and in general, the internet, do we really
need the TV anymore? You can get your news online, and chances are you can get that
news long before you'll ever see it on TV, unless your watching a twenty-four news
network like CNN, but then you'd have to sit though a bunch of other stories before they
got to the one that really mattered to you. The weather? Online as well, and much
quicker. Your favourite TV shows and movies? Yeah, those are online as well, with
services such as Netflix, and you can even rent them though services such as iTunes as
well, that is if you have an iOS device.
Everything we really watch on TV is online, and some of that content is better online anyways. On YouTube, you get to watch the content you want to watch with a minimal amount of advertisements. YouTube is free, unlike cable. Sure, you may have to pay for the internet service, but in the end, its probably cheaper to pay for the internet alone, than it would cost if you were paying for both the internet and TV. Online, you really get to choose what you want to watch. You still have that option on TV, but its much more limited than it would be online. Think about it, on your TV, you have on demand services that let you watch movies and TV shows, but there really isn't that much content there when compared to services like YouTube, and Netflix.
Lets take a closer look at YouTube for a minute. As was said in the above paragraph, YouTube allows you to watch whatever you want, whenever you want. Sure, there are advertisements, but there are much less on YouTube than there are on TV. Think about it, when you're watching some TV show that you're really into, and something suspenseful is going on, what happens? They go for a commercial break. That has to be the most annoying thing that can happen when you're really into a show. On the other hand, YouTube has advertisements as well, but you usually see them at the beginning of a video, and very rarely do you see them in between. And yes, there are ways around these ads as well, although most YouTubers wouldn't recommend them for obvious reasons. YouTube is there, anytime of the day or night, any day of the year. Every video at your fingertips. Your bound to find something you like, while on TV if you do find something you like, you have to wait for it to come on at, lets say, eight. While on YouTube, if you find something you like, you can watch it right then and there, or whenever you have the time to. And, sure you can record TV shows with a PVR, but for the purpose of this article, thats slightly less relevant.
Netflix is a slightly different service, which allows you to watch your favourite TV shows and movies for about eight bucks a month. Although this can differ depending on the situation, its still cheaper than what your cable may end up costing you at the end of the month. Netflix also has a wider range of content, from older movies and TV shows, to the newest ones. Netflix is available anywhere as well, unlike your TV which is most likely tied down to where ever you put it. You can't carry around a TV with you (well, you could...) But, some TV providers (at least here in Canada, although its very likely that this has been done in the United States as well) have created mobile apps which actually let you watch TV programs on your smartphones. Bell ran quite a few TV ads about this trying to get the word out about this.
Everything we really watch on TV is online, and some of that content is better online anyways. On YouTube, you get to watch the content you want to watch with a minimal amount of advertisements. YouTube is free, unlike cable. Sure, you may have to pay for the internet service, but in the end, its probably cheaper to pay for the internet alone, than it would cost if you were paying for both the internet and TV. Online, you really get to choose what you want to watch. You still have that option on TV, but its much more limited than it would be online. Think about it, on your TV, you have on demand services that let you watch movies and TV shows, but there really isn't that much content there when compared to services like YouTube, and Netflix.
Lets take a closer look at YouTube for a minute. As was said in the above paragraph, YouTube allows you to watch whatever you want, whenever you want. Sure, there are advertisements, but there are much less on YouTube than there are on TV. Think about it, when you're watching some TV show that you're really into, and something suspenseful is going on, what happens? They go for a commercial break. That has to be the most annoying thing that can happen when you're really into a show. On the other hand, YouTube has advertisements as well, but you usually see them at the beginning of a video, and very rarely do you see them in between. And yes, there are ways around these ads as well, although most YouTubers wouldn't recommend them for obvious reasons. YouTube is there, anytime of the day or night, any day of the year. Every video at your fingertips. Your bound to find something you like, while on TV if you do find something you like, you have to wait for it to come on at, lets say, eight. While on YouTube, if you find something you like, you can watch it right then and there, or whenever you have the time to. And, sure you can record TV shows with a PVR, but for the purpose of this article, thats slightly less relevant.
Netflix is a slightly different service, which allows you to watch your favourite TV shows and movies for about eight bucks a month. Although this can differ depending on the situation, its still cheaper than what your cable may end up costing you at the end of the month. Netflix also has a wider range of content, from older movies and TV shows, to the newest ones. Netflix is available anywhere as well, unlike your TV which is most likely tied down to where ever you put it. You can't carry around a TV with you (well, you could...) But, some TV providers (at least here in Canada, although its very likely that this has been done in the United States as well) have created mobile apps which actually let you watch TV programs on your smartphones. Bell ran quite a few TV ads about this trying to get the word out about this.
Of course, YouTube and Netflix aren't the only services out there that are helping
replace the TV. The internet in general is really helping reshape how people get
information. No longer do people need to tune in for the six o'clock news to see what
happened in the world. A simple trip to Google News can suffice. Chances are its more
up to date anyways, and you'll probably get it there first. Another way thats probably
even faster than Google News, is Twitter. When ever something happens in the world,
someone tweets about it. If it gets retweeted, its bound to get retweeted again. See how
that chain could work? Having thousands of people tweeting about the same thing gives
you a different perspective on the same thing, while that news report may have a few
short interviews of those affected by something major, Twitter allows you to hear people
uncensored. You can't say everything thats on your mind on TV, and although you
probably shouldn't do the same on Twitter, people do.
The internet is replacing news on TV, and you really have to wonder how twenty-four hour news networks such as CNN, HLN, and so on are doing. If the web can get you all of this info, why watch something like that? CNN is a good channel for news, but a company like that has to adapt to the web for them to survive in this changing world. Everything you may have once needed your TV for is now online. So, do you really need your TV, or cable subscription? If you want the big screen for all of these YouTube videos, then maybe keep the TV itself. But if you aren't liking what your getting with your cable subscription, what are you really doing wasting away your money at the end of the month?
If you like what you're getting, then keep your cable subscription. Don't get rid of it if your getting what you want. Do whats right for you.
Nothing can really last forever. The TV was invented in 1926, although it didn't start catching on until the 1940's. The colour TV was invented in 1928, although its inventor, John Logie Baird who worked alongside Philo Farnsworth never got to see how the colour TV would really take off. Farnsworth on the other hand got to see the beginning of it, although he passed away in 1971. Baird died in 1946, and never really got to see much of the colour TV in the consumer world since they were first sold by RCA in 1954. The only problem with this was, like with any new technology today, is they were too expensive, most of them starting at $1000 dollars, and in the mid 50's, that was an extreme amount of money. By 1972 colour TV sales began to exceed the black and white TV's of the time. The television changed the world. The internet is changing the world right now. This is the internet age.
What do you think? Is the TV slowly becoming obsolete?
Follow me on Twitter: @ck270
Article provided by Cole Kruper
The internet is replacing news on TV, and you really have to wonder how twenty-four hour news networks such as CNN, HLN, and so on are doing. If the web can get you all of this info, why watch something like that? CNN is a good channel for news, but a company like that has to adapt to the web for them to survive in this changing world. Everything you may have once needed your TV for is now online. So, do you really need your TV, or cable subscription? If you want the big screen for all of these YouTube videos, then maybe keep the TV itself. But if you aren't liking what your getting with your cable subscription, what are you really doing wasting away your money at the end of the month?
If you like what you're getting, then keep your cable subscription. Don't get rid of it if your getting what you want. Do whats right for you.
Nothing can really last forever. The TV was invented in 1926, although it didn't start catching on until the 1940's. The colour TV was invented in 1928, although its inventor, John Logie Baird who worked alongside Philo Farnsworth never got to see how the colour TV would really take off. Farnsworth on the other hand got to see the beginning of it, although he passed away in 1971. Baird died in 1946, and never really got to see much of the colour TV in the consumer world since they were first sold by RCA in 1954. The only problem with this was, like with any new technology today, is they were too expensive, most of them starting at $1000 dollars, and in the mid 50's, that was an extreme amount of money. By 1972 colour TV sales began to exceed the black and white TV's of the time. The television changed the world. The internet is changing the world right now. This is the internet age.
What do you think? Is the TV slowly becoming obsolete?
Follow me on Twitter: @ck270
Article provided by Cole Kruper
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