Wednesday, January 31, 2007
BBC's iPlayer: the end of TV as we know it?
There's clearly a bit of a theme developing in my recent posts: TV is doomed. Well, TV as we know it anyway. Plans for the BBC's iPlayer seem to be progressing and ITV, Sky, C4 and Five are all offering downloads of some programmes. All this surely brings into question the chances of SkyHD taking off in the way that Sky Digital did; portability seems to win out over image quality (although the image quality of many downloads is impressive). And, to use some jargon: on-demand downloads are taking audience fragmentation to its furthest extent. It also (as I explored last year, so use the archive links on the right) brings into question the concept of scheduling.
Labels: TV
// posted by Gavin Luhrs @ 8:24 pm 
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