Television vs Internet
The Death of a Television
There is no doubt that the internet has become part of our daily life. We surf the internet for news, watching movies, sending emails and many other essential tasks that we have to do daily. According to CISCO one of every three college students and young employees believes the Internet is as important as air, water, food, and shelter ( Popkin). After seeing the huge impact the internet has over the last year the U.N. recently declared internet access as a human right ( Estes). We all know that when it comes to television, cable and satellite solutions have monopolized the industry, so can the internet take T.V. entertainment in its own perspective? That’s a hard question to answer. The television industry started more than eighty years ago and have been growing rapidly ever since. Now it’s a huge industry involving hardware companies, software companies, technical support, advertisement, etc. But this industry is facing serious threat from the uprising internet industry, "I think we see the Internet as both a huge opportunity and potentially a huge threat," says Henry Eaton, vice-president of strategic planning and business development at CTV (Chidley). The internet is not going to take over the television only by taking over its consumers because that’s already happening as the percentage of video content being watched on the interned increased from 11% to 19% in just one year from 2008 (Marketing Charts), but it’s rather going to change each and every aspect of the television industry from advertisement, funding and ways to deliver TV material. In a few years the old media is going to be unrecognizable, so for all purposes, we might as well say that TV is already dead.
Television has been in our lives for over eighty years now. It is almost at the center of every modern house living room, sometimes it is also in the bedroom and even some people have televisions in their bathrooms. Although it used to only air news at the beginning
There is no doubt that the internet has become part of our daily life. We surf the internet for news, watching movies, sending emails and many other essential tasks that we have to do daily. According to CISCO one of every three college students and young employees believes the Internet is as important as air, water, food, and shelter ( Popkin). After seeing the huge impact the internet has over the last year the U.N. recently declared internet access as a human right ( Estes). We all know that when it comes to television, cable and satellite solutions have monopolized the industry, so can the internet take T.V. entertainment in its own perspective? That’s a hard question to answer. The television industry started more than eighty years ago and have been growing rapidly ever since. Now it’s a huge industry involving hardware companies, software companies, technical support, advertisement, etc. But this industry is facing serious threat from the uprising internet industry, "I think we see the Internet as both a huge opportunity and potentially a huge threat," says Henry Eaton, vice-president of strategic planning and business development at CTV (Chidley). The internet is not going to take over the television only by taking over its consumers because that’s already happening as the percentage of video content being watched on the interned increased from 11% to 19% in just one year from 2008 (Marketing Charts), but it’s rather going to change each and every aspect of the television industry from advertisement, funding and ways to deliver TV material. In a few years the old media is going to be unrecognizable, so for all purposes, we might as well say that TV is already dead.
Television has been in our lives for over eighty years now. It is almost at the center of every modern house living room, sometimes it is also in the bedroom and even some people have televisions in their bathrooms. Although it used to only air news at the beginning