Pod casting and youtube is the future!!

[Djdubld]

**** I dont even have a reason to watch tv anymore. Scheduled programming seems ancient. I can see in the next few years tv, the internet, the radio, your ipod, your cellphone all merging into one thing. Where the user just types in the type of thing they want to see or hear and get a big list of things under that topic and it would all be interactive. Straight up this is going to happen mark my words!

[WildeGeek]

**** I dont even have a reason to watch tv anymore. Scheduled programming seems ancient. I can see in the next few years tv, the internet, the radio, your ipod, your cellphone all merging into one thing. Where the user just types in the type of thing they want to see or hear and get a big list of things under that topic and it would all be interactive. Straight up this is going to happen mark my words!
8 years ago, I tried to tell that to my boss, the division president of a big multi-national electronics company. He thought I was delusional.

But I hope the YouTube company itself doesn't dominate the availability of video; that would suck at least as much as having one company control almost all of the computers sold (ooops, someone already did that).

[scottandtelly]

If Podcasting and YouTube can get the kind of funding and quality programs as TV, then it IS the future. Right now, though... theres not too many that are really at par.

[Yotto]

There is a lot of garbage on the tube these days, but it's not as bad as radio. There ARE good things on television. Battlestar Galactica. Heroes. For some reason I'm still watching Men in Trees too. So far, their equal does not exist in the podcasting world, and I would miss them were I to divorce myself from television like I did from radio.

I'm not saying we'll never be there, just that we're not there yet. When we do get there, I'll happily stop watching television :D

[WildeGeek]

There is a lot of garbage on the tube these days, but it's not as bad as radio. There ARE good things on television. Battlestar Galactica. Heroes. For some reason I'm still watching Men in Trees too. So far, their equal does not exist in the podcasting world, and I would miss them were I to divorce myself from television like I did from radio.
I haven't watched any TV except for a little PBS and Netflix for almost 8 years. Everytime I'm tempted to look I find a total wasteland. Getting in the fight with the cable company and promising never to give them another cent was one of the better decisions in my life.

But I listen to radio all the time. I never listen to mainstream commercial radio though, that's another wasteland. But there are plenty of interesting public, student, and community stations in this area. They're run by real people who actually answer the phone or respond to e-mails, and are involved in the local community.

[Webzu]

Until the network TV takes over. Now you have NBC, NPR and all the big networks are starting to podcast so that make me nervous that they'll take over. TV used to be a place for great shows and news programs like Ernie Kovacs and Rod Serling. Marlon Brando and others started in TV plays in the late 40's and 50's than it devolved to what we have now.

[OuterLimits]

Youtube censors political speech that Google doesn't like or can't touch. They are, albeit newly acquired, already an 'establishment' enterprise. Just read their neo-communist 'terms of service'.

[guscave]

I hardly have enough time to watch tv, but the other day I noticed just how little I listen to radio anymore. Myy wife got in my car and turn on the radio, I get this ARGHH feeling. I was saying to myself "what is this crap"?

If for whatever reason I forget to bring along my mp3 to listen to podcast, I'll then listen to a CD, but the radio never goes on while I'm in the car by myself.

[lyzz]

There is a lot of garbage on the tube these days, but it's not as bad as radio.

I disagree. TV is boring indeed. But radio is better.
It's all about attention. I can just very well be riding some bus and listening to a podcast/a radio program while watching the surroundings. Try to do the same with TV...
Basically, audible information requires some less focus on it and that's cool. ;)

[ronaldl79]

The Future Of TV is Already Here ....

It's codenamed 'The Venice Project' (http://www.theveniceproject.com)

It's managed by the co-founders of Skype. Based on everything I've learned, it's sure to redefine TV and usher in time-shifted content PERMANENTLY!

[lyzz]

They don't tell anything about it.
How come you can say they will change the way TV is knowing nothing about the actual project?

It didn't look that serious to me...