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Eric Schmidt: television is 'already over'(The death of TV)
The Telegraph ^ | 5/2/2013 | The Telegraph

Posted on 05/03/2013 11:33:48 AM PDT by Dallas59

Speaking at a gathering of digital advertisers in New York City last night, Mr Schmidt refused to forecast when internet video would displace television, instead declaring: "That's already happened."

"It's not a replacement for something that we know," he added. "It's a new thing that we have to think about, to program, to curate and build new platforms."

YouTube recently surpassed the milestone of a billion unique users a month. Only the Google search engine and social network Facebook are frequented more often by those browsing the internet worldwide.

However, the video site lags behind traditional television in the UK, with the average Briton watching four hours and seven minutes of broadcast television per day and just 20 minutes of YouTube in the same period of time.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: Secret Agent Man

If you download a film or newscast or whatever then you can take advantage of the VLC player’s ability to play the video at various speeds but keep the frequency of the sound and voices normal... I use it often to play recorded talk shows at about 1.5x normal.

Sometimes it’s useful also to slow down a really fast talker so you can catch everything they say.

A time saver.


41 posted on 05/03/2013 2:51:45 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: Celtic Conservative
computer monitor on the desk with HDMI cable running from my kindle fire

I have a similar set up with cable from my laptop to the LCD TV. I also have the ROKU box and the WDTV wifi box that accesses digital TV programs and movies I have saved on a WD NAS wireless 3TB disk drive.

Someone recently mentioned PLEX in a similar TV-Computers thread. I checked it out. I wish I had known about earlier. It is a [currently free] software app that basically replaces the WDTV wifi box by using the local network computers.


42 posted on 05/03/2013 3:03:51 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Dallas59

Ya’ll realize after a certain proportion of folks switch to the Internet for their video entertainment, companies will begin limiting the amount of data to subscribers, right?


43 posted on 05/03/2013 3:17:28 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: TomGuy
The HDMI output was a big selling point between the fire and hd fire ( the standard model doesn't have it). That and dual wifi antennas. The price difference is only about $35.00

CC

44 posted on 05/03/2013 3:18:35 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: Dallas59

Same here, since Obama was elected the second time, we’ve turned off the TV. “They” lied to us, they don’t cover the news, and the “comedy” sitcoms are totally boring. I get a bigger kick out of watching Hawaii-5-oh...from a simpler, cleaner time, good acting, great scenery...and I’m watching it “free”...along with many other shows of that era. BTW...my CNN addicted lib across the street today said she hadn’t heard about the Gosnel trial when I asked her about it. This woman was a school teacher for years and “researches” everything...but if CNN is all you watch...(I’m still shaking my head).


45 posted on 05/03/2013 3:40:24 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( EVERY DIME Obama Spends is given to him by the Republicans in the House.)
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To: Dallas59
I'm afraid that the technology is not there yet to displace television.

The airwaves are free to the extent that a broadcaster only has to push its signal out once for all to receive.

Streaming video is a pull model, where all the consumers compete for traffic through a finite pipeline of coaxial cable or DSL. If too many people stream at once, the whole system clogs up and bogs down.

Are we there yet?

-PJ

46 posted on 05/03/2013 3:52:46 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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47 posted on 05/03/2013 4:16:49 PM PDT by freds6girlies (many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30. R.I.P. G & J)
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To: Political Junkie Too

That is true.

Also, the ‘networks’ have to develop a viable and profitable operational mode. Otherwise, they cannot afford to develop new programs.

Right now, the broadcast venue is paying for the development and networks put their programs online more as a curtesy.

One of the big problems for broadcast networks is that people may not want to sit still for 20 minutes of commercials each hour via computer monitors or streaming.


48 posted on 05/03/2013 4:18:57 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Dallas59

Shrug. It’s still alive?

When the local stations went digital I never bothered with the “upgrade”. Don’t regret it one bit.

The only thing that comes into my house is what I allow through the firewall from the Internet.

KMA MSM


49 posted on 05/04/2013 7:34:24 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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