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Do you Watch “TV” on the Internet?

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Are you watching TV right now? Seriously, is there a television on in your room or house at this moment? I honestly don’t know about the future about the television. The future of TV is going to be on the Internet. There’s a reason I publish everything I do to YouTube. About one in three of every video on the Internet is watched on YouTube. There’s a good chance one of mine will show up.

Someone in our chat room asked if the Internet is going to destroy tv. I happen to be using my television as a monitor, since there’s a computer hooked up to it. I also have my Xbox plugged into it. I can watch my cable service hooked up to it. Now, I can watch my content pretty much anywhere I want. To me, it boils down to the content. A “tv” is a machine. Why does it matter where you watch that content? Why does it have to be on a television? I can pull up any show I want to watch right on my computer and watch as I work.

It’s not even “the future”… it’s the present. Television shows and movies can be watched on the Internet. Within ten years, there will be a huge fundamental shift in the way that we view our content. It will take better broadband, yes. However, the Internet isn’t going to destroy “television”. It may lessen the actual mechanism you think of when you think of the word ‘tv’.

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I watch a ton of traditional TV online via Sopcast and TVAnts. These programs have become required applications for any soccer fan in the US as we basically are now in a position of ‘if the game is televised anywhere in the world, we can see it’.

What I wonder is whether the existing content providers can tolerate transmission over new mediums or whether they are going to fight and moan and shut down new distribution channels.

Where do I get my video content? Well, in almost any way I can simply. I subscribe to some Podcasts through iTunes, I subscribe to several YouTube channels, I use Joost to watch some shows, stream directly from some networks that stream online and I occasionally watch a recorded CSI episode on our Windows Media Center PC connected to our living room TV.

So well, I am all for ‘TV’ through the internet!

TV is dead. I’ve been trying to sell mine, because I haven’t even turned it on in years. But nobody wants to buy the damn thing.

i download my shows and i leave tv on the background sometimes

I gave up TV a long time; my computer is my primary source of entertainment now.

Even my bigscreen DLP is hooked up to an HTPC and I watch my DVDs there.

i dont watch an acctual tv i watch shows on my computer i stoped watching a tv

“wat kind of tv?”

LOL, why you interested in it? It’s 27″ Emerson CRT. Weighs about weighs about 300 lbs. Make me an offer, and come pick it up. Please:)

I don’t watch videos on the web EVER! never did never will. :D :) :) :)

I have my fair share of online and on TV. Some stuff is only on TV. Family Guy I watch online. Cyberchase I download off of iTunes and watch some episodes that are uploaded to youtube and even record my own. Kim Possible series is over and I have every episode plus the 2 movies on DVDs. So I depend less and less on the conventional TV. I use my computer to watch TV a lot. I have a very old CRT to watch TV. Can I afford a plasma, no way. Will I ever replace it, We’ll see!

I download threw real player downloader v.9
& watch it in my ipod.

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I find new content usually when one of the videocasts I’m watching suggests another videocast. I’ll occasionally stumble upon one randomly that I like, but for the most part it’s about content being related to other content I’ve seen. I love my entertainment setup! I use Miro to bring in all my Video casts…I subscribe to about twenty I’d say (not including my YouTube Subscriptions). I use PyTivo to serve the Miro files (and misc movies & other vids on my computer) to my Tivo, and I have a SlingBox to send the Tivo signal anywhere in the world. It’s Absolutely fabulous! The Cloud is the new Entertainment Distribution Source.
BTW, I also like Orb.com for quick streaming content and file management when I am travelling.

Veoh TV beta is very nice for TV

I have been looking for a way to watch tv on the computer, and have bought a product that would allow me to do it, however it did’nt work in the end. I think one of the best ways to watch tv on your computer would be the slingbox. The advantages of it would be that you can access your cable tv signal anywhere you go.

As Video Capture cards are able to handle better quality images, expect Tivo to go the way of the Dodo. People will be able to watch recorded shows on their computer, with the same ease of use that Tivo and other DVR machines have.

Seeing what CBS and ABC are doing as well as youtube I think that the future of tv would be via the internet

What I mean by what CBS and ABC doing if you goto there sites then you can watch on demand shows from that provider when ever you want. It is kind of like DVR for your pc.

I myself have my satalite box hooked up to 1 of my tv-tuner cards and it records what I want. But incase I forget to record something it is nice to go to that site and watch it on demand

tvu, vlc media player, sopcast, jlc’s internet tv, joost, veoh, ziggy

Chris, you’re not saying to “steal content”, but I am.

Yea,southparkzone has all of the south park episodes and familyguynow has all of the family guy episodes.

It’s gotta be sky+ and the BBC iPlayer and 4OD

Chris,

Why would I want to watch TV on a small screen like on my laptop or sitting at my desk watching on my desktop computer? Why? If I watch TV, it’s wasting time, which is ok, but when I am on my computers, it’s business.

Television is on my computer

i agree, we won’t need to be robbed by cable networks when we can have one device! Streaming is the way to go you rock! It allows people with real thoughts to share without being told what to do! Major networks only feed us what they want! Everyone should listen to Chris he has some good ideas! Chris you should check out this company I found on YOU TUBE, they do encryption but are doing exactly what you said! DreamStream, some guy named MIchael Jay SOlomon, he agrees with you!!!!

I use the internet to watch tv for sports, but not regular tv. Im a big NFL and NBA fan and i can watch majority of the games on sopcast. Last season i caught pretty uch every Steelers game on podcast. The only negative is the channels sometimes pause.

It won’t be long until TV is see as the media format between the printing press and the internet.

I never use the internet

and what are you doing now ???

******* hell. not you agin! get a life!

People viewing media on the internet will not take down broadcast television. There are those people who gre up on TV who are comfortable doing that. Not that they haven’t gave streaming their favorite shows a chance, they just are used to it that way.

I being a geek, stream all kinds of media and I love it. There are things I prefer watching on televsion.

I am 28 so Television was already common as I was growing up. Plus I still get content from AM Radio as well.

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