"Television and the internet are moving towards an intriguing hybrid", writes Michael Hirschon on the Review section of the AFR on Friday 11 April (page 1-2).
Traditional television viewing is a passive experience - we watch programmes in a sequence that's been decided for us. Yes, we have a choice of channels, especially if we've gone for cable television, but it's still passive viewing.
Hirschon predicts that in the future we'll be able to mix and match our own viewing, and in addition, we'll be able to edit it, 'poke at' it, comment on it, parody it, and rebroadcast it, using the internet to receive and deliver. We'll no longer be just viewers, we'll also be users. So "who gets paid by whom to deliver what to whom"? He cites the example of a friend who has dispensed with the TV and has set up the 20' iMac wide screen as a kind of home theatre, and is feeding it with content from iTunes, various other web-based media services and DVDs.
Will we get web-enabled TV sets that allow us to do all this?
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