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Before you can “kill” television you have to define what “television” is – a big screen with a simplistic selection tool, a lean-back viewing experience, network productions with professional actors, directors, studio, etc., simulcast of real time events to millions or billions of people?

The web opened the door for non-professional video with amateur everything.
The web has a hypertext selection mode that is predominantly lean-forward.
The Internet reaches ~2B people on a variety of devices, but it difficult to stream the same video to all of them at once over TCP/IP or UDP.

The answer is both media and medium will continue to persist and evolve while the term “television” may in fact fade away from our vocabulary.

Click here to read an excellent blog post from TECHi.

In the news yesterday, a funding announcement for Philo, a social TV experience. Here’s a succinct description of Social TV from Technology Review.

“A central database aggregates video from online sources like YouTube, shares user-specific data with social networks, delivers video to the user’s TV, and lets users and the people in their networks send comments and rating back and forth via an iPhone app.

It avoids using the TV screen for messages, something has proven irritating to consumers who don’t want clunky text obscuring pictures on their 52″ HDTVs. The app also allows the user to tell the network what program to show on his or her set. For instance if a friend suggests a show and the owner agrees, that show will pop up at the appointed time.”

Personally, it sounds like “MediaDancer” a concept developed by Calero Media Systems in 2007.

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Does Netflix’s Success Spell Hope for Hulu?
Steve Smith

Well, at least I know that I am not alone. Netflix reported this week that it had a net increase of 1.7 million subscribers this year in the first quarter of the year. I was one of the 1.7 million. Netflix got me from all angles this quarter. The streaming Watch Instantly service was on my Xbox 360 and then on the PS3. But it was the iPad that sold it to me. As I wrote here last week, seamlessly synching my movie experience across screens so that I could take my movie to bed with me, is revelatory. I admit it. I am in the tank for them now. And I am not alone.

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