Eric Schmidt: television is 'already over'(The death of TV)

The Telegraph ^ | 5/2/2013 | The Telegraph

[Dallas59]

Speaking at a gathering of digital advertisers in New York City last night, Mr Schmidt refused to forecast when internet video would displace television, instead declaring: "That's already happened."

"It's not a replacement for something that we know," he added. "It's a new thing that we have to think about, to program, to curate and build new platforms."

YouTube recently surpassed the milestone of a billion unique users a month. Only the Google search engine and social network Facebook are frequented more often by those browsing the internet worldwide.

However, the video site lags behind traditional television in the UK, with the average Briton watching four hours and seven minutes of broadcast television per day and just 20 minutes of YouTube in the same period of time.

[muawiyah]

You Tube allows the homebound and young children to be entertained by every musical act that ever performed before a camera ~ from marching bands to street musicians to symphony orchestras. Just played the Trondheim symphony for the grand daughter ~ ever hear of them? They are outstanding ~ nothing to do in that part of Norway for most of the year but play in an orchestra or ski in the back country while eating roasted fish.

Only the really rich used to be able to do this.

[dfwgator]

It’s also fun to discover some of the obscure music from the 60s and 70s that we might have missed.

[autumnraine]

If I didn’t have kids, I would kill cable. I have more tv’s than computers. Once they are out of the house, I will kill cable and watch what I want, when I want.

[Celtic Conservative]

No, internet ready TV s on the wall, or as I do- computer monitor on the desk with HDMI cable running from my kindle fire with rented or purchased movies. I'm getting ready to end my directv account beacause I can watch my 2 favorite shows on my kindle fire for a dollar a week. TV execs best be prepared, the earth is about to move beneath their feet.

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[IbJensen]

I don’t watch sports on tv, with the exception of hockey, as I believe pro sports belongs on BET.

[TribalPrincess2U]

1984 version TV coming soon, unless....

[SoothingDave]

Do you really think the record companies aren’t getting a cut today?

[dfwgator]

I’m not familiar with exactly what arrangements the records companies have with YouTube.

[SoothingDave]

We’ve long had agreements with all four major record labels as well as dozens of independent labels, and now that we are broadening our coverage with more publishers, we’ll be able to create more revenue streams for all of them.

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/08/creating-new-opportunities-for.html

[dfwgator]

That’s good...I know for example Monty Python actually saw an increase in DVD sales because of the fact they allowed people to post their material on YouTube.

[stuartcr]

Not in my house

[TexasCajun]

I love my Netflix through my Playstation.

...won't need the playstation with my new 52" 3D-HD Widescreen computer.

[MichaelCorleone]

“Other than for sports, I rarely watch TV anymore, the Internet is my TV.”

Same here.

[PrincessB]

Consider getting a ROKU if you have wireless internet and a digital TV (You need a USB port). It streams from the internet directly to your TV. They go for about $50-60. I pay for netflix (8/month) and hulu plus (8/month) and already had Amazon Prime so I get those shows too.

I watch one, maybe two network shows a week and might catch a sporting event. Everything else comes from the three video sources.

[cuban leaf]

I dumped TV in 1997. Frankly, with what is available on the internet it’s not even a big deal any more. But it sure opened my eyes regarding all televised news.

Local news casters talk to you as if you are in 7th grade. And national news looks for the visual stuff, ignoring things that matter. And Fox is NOT conservative.

[UCANSEE2]

PoE (IEEE 802.3af) TV will replace regular TV.

They need to work on the name.

[Bobalu]

I rarely turn on TV anymore.

I'm downloading a movie from YouTube right this minute...
It's an old Angela Lansbury film called "A Life at Stake" (1954) 480p

"A Life at Stake"

Download in Firefox using the free add-on DownloadHelper. View the .flv file using the free VLC player.

[Secret Agent Man]

best thing is no commercials. you can watch something uninterrupted in a lot shorter time.

[Secret Agent Man]

Regular OTA news no longer news, it is abandoned journalism for puff pieces, graphics that eat up minutes of airtime, hardly any international news, crappy local news if any, fluffy feature emo pieces, weather several times, and a large sports portion, plus nine minutes of commercials. You will never see hard news stories in regular broadcasts anymore. Nobody does hard news. Can’t joke and put your own witty personal opinion quip in on hard news stories.

News broadcasts today are basically now infotainment. ET and The Insider and those crap shows are a level worse and are just half hour advertisements for various movies and crap.

[TomGuy]

With Netflix and online Video-on-Demand, I estimate 1/3 of my viewing is via Internet.

Cable just jumped their price $10 a month. Stupid, stupid, stupid! They are pricing themselves out of the market. Or maybe they see the handwriting on the wall and are trying to bank all they can before they go the way of the typewriter.