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You ever heard the song Video killed the radio song? The song came way after TV, but everyone was calling for the demise of radio when TV came out. Stop taking

by fma 10y ago

You ever heard the song Video killed the radio song? The song came way after TV, but everyone was calling for the demise of radio when TV came out. Stop taking the argument too literally. It's not about interactive vs non-interactive. It's about the next technology killing off the previous one and how narrow minded it is to believe something so ingrained and central to society will disappear so fast. Why don't you set an alert, come back here in 15 years, in 2031, and let me know if TV is gone. I guarantee you it won't.

randomdata 10y ago
> but everyone was calling for the demise of radio when TV came out. But the parent isn't calling for the demise of audio or video content. He's calling for the demise of scheduling done by a third party, where you have to comply to someone else's programming whims. I do think it is fair to say that the TV did completely change the way people listened to radio. > It's not about interactive vs non-interactive. It is precisely about interactive selection vs. being fed programming on a predefined schedule. The original comment was very explicit about this, and he claims the latter will eventually disappear, in favour of the former. He isn't saying people are going to stop watching video content in their living room, he's saying they aren't going to continue to sit down at exactly the time someone else says they have to, else risk missing the show, or be fed content they do not want to see because they want to watch video at that time. From the VCR, to the PVR, to now on-demand Internet streaming the trend is clear that people want to make their own programming schedule choices. As the technology becomes more convenient (Netflix beats setting a VCR by a long shot!), abandoning the old broadcast schedule becomes more and more appealing to more and more people. > Why don't you set an alert, come back here in 15 years, in 2031, and let me know if TV is gone. Because, quite frankly, I couldn't care less if it comes true. I wasn't making the claim in the first place.

by fma 10y ago

randomdata 10y ago

> but everyone was calling for the demise of radio when TV came out. But the parent isn't calling for the demise of audio or video content. He's calling for the demise of scheduling done by a third party, where you have to comply to someone else's programming whims. I do think it is fair to say that the TV did completely change the way people listened to radio. > It's not about interactive vs non-interactive. It is precisely about interactive selection vs. being fed programming on a predefined schedule. The original comment was very explicit about this, and he claims the latter will eventually disappear, in favour of the former. He isn't saying people are going to stop watching video content in their living room, he's saying they aren't going to continue to sit down at exactly the time someone else says they have to, else risk missing the show, or be fed content they do not want to see because they want to watch video at that time. From the VCR, to the PVR, to now on-demand Internet streaming the trend is clear that people want to make their own programming schedule choices. As the technology becomes more convenient (Netflix beats setting a VCR by a long shot!), abandoning the old broadcast schedule becomes more and more appealing to more and more people. > Why don't you set an alert, come back here in 15 years, in 2031, and let me know if TV is gone. Because, quite frankly, I couldn't care less if it comes true. I wasn't making the claim in the first place.