Future TV, not so far away
For my generation the television has had pride of place in the living room as far as home entertainment is concerned.
In fact families have spent the last ten years or more keeping up wth the Joneses with flat screen, big screen, multi screen and every other TV development the market has thrown at us.
But more recently there is a new challenge to TV’s dominance, and it’s been coming from computers, the Internet, and mobile phones. So where is this challenge taking us?
TV service providers have rushed to make content available over the Internet to computers and mobile devices, and we could argue this has actually just accelerated the challenge to TV viewing especially in the younger generation who have grown up with laptop and mobile at the heart of their life and the TV taken much more for granted than any previous generation.
But TV manufacturers are fighting back by integrating Internet based services to bring us back to our television set and whilst just being able to browse websites on a bigger screen whilst sitting further away might sound pretty dull the real power of all this comes when broadcast or video content gets dynamically connected through to interactive services like shopping and gaming.
This is no longer a futuristic dream but an imminent reality – read more about that discussion here.
