[opendtv] Re: Netflix CEO predicts broadcast TV will die by 2030
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 02:04:13 +0000
IMO, "Broadcast TV will die" is a bit of hyperbole. The live broadcast stream
over OTA RF channels will most likely decrease, as Ron said, but the local
news, national/world news, weather, scripted shows, documentaries, niche
interest programs, and on and on, won't disappear. It will merely be
distributed over other media. Most likely, in the next few decades, the
Internet.
There's nothing so terribly profound about such predictions. Storytelling has
been going on for thousands of years. The era of one-way broadcast RF nets, to
distribute these stories, be they OTA or cabled, only began in 1920, with
commercial radio. Not that long in human history, and hardly a medium that
should be expected to be used forever.
With my PC-TV-audio system, which includes a "WiFi tuner," the experience is
mostly unchanged. I get a huge increase in choice, BBC Radio comes in like it's
a local radio station, local TV news from the rest of the world same thing, but
it's all still "radio" and "TV."
Bert
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