*There's something very strange about framing this huge transition as "TV." That flatscreen might look a bit like an old-school TV screen, but it's certainly not "TV" any more, because the political, economic and social structures that surrounded TV have been demolished in this scenario.
*A "TV" becomes one humbled part of a landscape of video-capable screens that include handhelds, palmtops, laptops, desktops, "a screen on the wall that's facing the couch and used to be a television," and whatever fringe weirdness is being done with projection systems and headmounts. All of them running content off the Net.
*This means the Net has killed TV and put its skin on. That's not "television." That's as if the transmission systems in cars had taken over the function of cars, except you had no highways, no parking garages, no Ford, no General Motors, no gas stations and no traffic regulations; no drive-in movies and no back-seat lovers lanes. That wouldn't be a "car." You might call it a "car" in order to make your victims in the dying car industry feel better.
*I imagine that's what's happening here. To add to the irony, it's being covered by the "BBC," which is still British, more or less, but sure doing less and less of that "broadcasting."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8272003.stm
"By 2015 more than 12 billion devices will be capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content, says chip giant Intel. (((What's the difference between "TV" and "video content"? Well, one of those has a future.)))
"It said its vision of TV everywhere will be more personal, social, ubiquitous and informative.
"TV is out of the box and off the wall," Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, told BBC News.
"TV will remain at the centre of our lives and you will be able to watch what you want where you want." ((("A center whose circumference is everywhere and whose center is nowhere.")))
Mr Rattner said: "We are talking about more than one TV-capable device for every man and woman on the planet. (((It gets especially interesting when you get TV-capable software plugins that aren't even a "device.")))
"People are going to feel connected to the screen in ways they haven't in the past." (((Especially if they're the people who own the TV business, who are gonna be pulling tiny screens out of their pockets to receive horrified business messages from their associates.)))
Speaking at Intel's Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, he said the success of TV was due to the growing number of ways to consume content. (((TV = elderly, shut-in Gothic High Tech consumers; Vernacular Video = Favela Chic slum producers and IP thieves)))
Today that includes everything from the traditional box in the corner of the living room to smartphones, laptops, netbooks, desktops and mobile internet devices. (((Try and find one of these analog "traditional TV boxes" – turn that on, and nothing comes out of it, pal.)))
Continuing the theme, Malachy Moynihan, Cisco's vice-president of video product strategy, ((("video product strategy"))) told IDF attendees to expect an explosion of content for such devices.
(((The explosion of content over at WIRED VIDEO, for instance. WIRED VIDEO looks kind of like "traditional video," in that you turn it on and it starts pumping ads at you whether you want to see them or not. And they're mostly videos about guys who have some relationship to a traditional video entertainment biz – TV series and movie spectacles. Meanwhile, all the Wired blogs are freakin' seething with vernacular video clips. Sometimes they're linked videos with something like production values, and more and more often they're two geeks sitting, staring and yelling into a handheld on a GorillaPod.)))
"We are seeing an amazing move of video to IP (internet) networks," he said. "By 2013 90% of all IP traffic will be video; 60% of all video will be consumed by consumers over IP networks."
"Infinite choice..."
