“Cutting the cord” with a utility bill usually means eliminating your landline phone service and using your wireless phone only. But we’re quickly approaching the day when you can cut the cord from your pay-TV service–usually cable or satellite–and watch much of the same content online.
“There are a lot of younger, tech-savvy people who have gone off the TV grid,” said David Carnoy, executive editor of tech Web site Cnet.com.
Regularly watching Internet TV is still more for the tech-savvy than mainstream America, experts say. But the amount of content and the number of ways to play that content on traditional televisions, not just computers, is rapidly expanding.
Service (sic) providers are conjuring up ways to maintain their role as mediator of the experience, while understanding the model that has waxed since the dawn of "community antenna TV" is on the wane.
Analogy I used at work today about enhancing products based on today's dominant paradigm:
"So, now you have a carbon fiber buggy whip."
According to teh Google, at least six people have used that analogy before me.
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“There are a lot of younger, tech-savvy people who have gone off the TV grid,” said David Carnoy, executive editor of tech Web site Cnet.com.
Regularly watching Internet TV is still more for the tech-savvy than mainstream America, experts say. But the amount of content and the number of ways to play that content on traditional televisions, not just computers, is rapidly expanding.
- bill 11-12-2009 3:08 pm
Service (sic) providers are conjuring up ways to maintain their role as mediator of the experience, while understanding the model that has waxed since the dawn of "community antenna TV" is on the wane.
- mark 11-13-2009 6:04 pm [add a comment]
Analogy I used at work today about enhancing products based on today's dominant paradigm:
"So, now you have a carbon fiber buggy whip."
According to teh Google, at least six people have used that analogy before me.
- mark 11-13-2009 11:45 pm [add a comment]