Media Convergence and the New TV
Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 3:51PM Remember the battle of the next generation of DVDs: HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray? It was only mid-February when Blu-Ray was declared the standard, and since then, it hasn't really mattered.
Three things caught my eye in the last week.
- Netflix Begins Streaming Movies to the Xbox 360 (Techcrunch)
- Domino's Let's TiVo Users Order Pizza Via TV (MediaPost)
- Is YouTube the Next Google? (ReadWriteWeb)
These three things aren't closely related..but they will be. We already have the Netflix TV top box (and streaming at the site), Apple TV, Hulu, an explosion of social networks for gamers, "time shifters" and on and on. There are countless reports telling us what we already know -- millennials spend more time online, and less time in front of the TV. And the reason is because most aspects of TV aren't on-demand and interactive the same way the web is.
As all of these technologies continue to converge redefine the meaning of "television", we'll wonder why we ever cared about the stable of next generation of DVDs sitting we'd have sitting in our living rooms.
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