TV's Lost That Fleeting Feeling
from the it's-all-on-record-now dept
One of the more interesting stories to look for in the tech world is the unintended consequences of new technology that can often change the way you view something else. For example, television programming was always a "fleeting" media. If you missed something on television, you missed it. That was it. If you caught a rare moment on TV, then you were lucky. Over the years, technology has eaten away at that fleeting nature of television. First, it was the VCR and then the DVR. However, as the NY Observer notes, these days, it seems like YouTube has totally obliterated the fleeting nature of TV. Nowadays, if anything interesting, different or amusing happens on TV, you can pretty much guarantee that it will be available on YouTube within a few hours, and then passed around rapidly via sites like Digg. In fact, the author notes that he's gone back and now seen "fleeting" moments from TV in his past that he figured he'd never see again (and isn't always thrilled with what he saw the second time around). This isn't necessarily to say that it's a good or bad thing, but that people are starting to view what they see on TV as something entirely differently than the way it was viewed just a few years ago.
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Fleeting TV
The point I'm getting at is, if you never saw that show, you will most likely NEVER will. The television station that aired the broadcasts recorded over each tape for new episodes, leaving no official recorded history of this program.
So, YouTube, put THAT in your tube and view it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin%27_Rod_Anders
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Re: Fleeting TV
But your point remains.
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Po-zeshuns are fleeting.
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If you download from the internet, you're saving a MPEGn stream to your harddrive to watch later.
If you're using a digital recording device to record your digital TV then you're doing the same things (sans-Internet, although if it's a cable service, it's the same lines)
Surely the next step is to move to Internet only?
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I asked, is 24mbps enough? I still don't think so since a real-time HD signal will require 8mbps, most families have 4 or 5 TVs plus Internet & phone... But that's another topic.
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I really like it though. I feel like I am in control, not some guy who is determining what is on what channel.
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Of course, I can see the Media industry suing them soon, but it'll be worthy until then.
Especially since my time watching the TV anymore is 'fleeting' as well - too many good video games out there. If it's not a real good movie, I'll just skip it.
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Internet's equivalent of 15 minutes of fame
3 weeks before that I never heard of MySpace, but talk about that is starting to dwindle already.
Before that, I never heard of craigslist, but then everybody knew about it suddenly.
I think quite honestly that marketing for whichever fad website du jour suddenly floods the net with stories and comments about its website, they hire people to fill Slashdot, TechDirt, etc with stories and commentary about their website to a point when it becomes a household name.
3 weeks from now, people will stop talking about or caring about YouTube, and another fad website will be making its rounds for another 15 minutes of Internet fame.
If you want to talk about something that is fleeting, talk about YouTube just a little longer.
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Another one I’d like to see again was Jim Rome getting knocked on his ass by Jim Everet on a live ESPN show.
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Jim Rome getting punched.
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Justin
Seattle, WA
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Stop watching CNN for your tech news. They only become 'fads' because the media excessively reports on them after coming late to the party.
For those of us who have used those services from the beginning, (before the idotic media decided to make a fuss out of them) they are hardly a fad. There is a wide base of internet savvy people, unlike the media and yourself apparently, who have used and will always use these sites long after the media drops them.
Blame the media for giving them 15 minutes of fame for the general cattle population. For those who the sites were intended for, they will always remain popular.
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Video
Who needs cable?
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