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> One could say video, but live TV existed before. Okay but, could anyone broadcast on TV? Could anyone have their own TV channel? TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat
by xyzzy_plugh 6y ago
> One could say video, but live TV existed before.
Okay but, could anyone broadcast on TV? Could anyone have their own TV channel?
TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch... preceded by JustinTV, Vine, Periscope.
It's a different ballgame. There's whole new revenue streams, individual content creators are collectively making a ton of money . Consumers are directly (or nearly directly) compensating creators in many cases (e.g. Twitch) unlike before.
- cblconfederate 6y agoOTOH, talking on a screen is not really a novel invention. OTOH, while Tiktok,instagram etc make it easier for someone to begin a TV career (because that's what it is, we just use different words), and remove the middlemen, it's not really turned "everyone to a broadcaster", only a few manage to become popular and dominate the market. As video apps become more mainstream, fewer and fewer people will test the waters in it, as the dominant influencers keep raising the barrier to entry. Same thing happened with blogs which bifurcated (good writers became "blogojournalists", bad writers ended in the gutter of facebook). So yes, we have a "new TV", but that's not fundamentally different than ... TV . Same could go for podcasts, a rehash of radio / talk shows.
- dmz73 6y agoThat is still just improvement on what's already available. Next level will be obvious when it is available. It could be VR or AR or something so radical we can't imagine it but it has to be like computer to typewriter improvement. It does everything old technology did but it also opens the door to a whole new level of development.
- jimbokun 6y ago> That is still just improvement on what's already available. This is the entire history of computing.
- anthk 6y agoA lot of people did streaming on ShoutCast.