Internet oh internet. You couldn't say you hate it, but you couldn't also say that it's always good. I grow up watching Catdog on our cute picture tube 21-inch heavy as a rock television on a daily basis. Whenever we wanted to get entertainment we tune in to our television to watch soap dramas, but if you found local channels boring, a premium "Cable-Television" subscription is your answer to your information-hungry mind. Going back to the ample life of no internet in 1996, all people have are the DJ's in the radio to request their playlist, and Home shopping networks to see new products unavailable to your local community Market. These are all great if you lived in those days, but it wasn't this advanced. I remember growing up to our community market, going to some Chinese merchandising shops to search for cheap treats, and I never thought that internet will be killing these old habits of ours.
I had my first desktop in 1998, it was a windows 97 PC with 8-bit games in it. No one in the household has ever had a internet connection, for we know that computer has floppy disk and used primarily for offices. We didn't even know that it would be a tool in which everybody will be tethered 85% of the time.
The Death of Television
TV has always been the king of the media previously because it gives advertisers direct access to entertainment and put good contents to engage to the customers, for the past 28 years of living in this world, I'd never though that TV will vanish quickly as I anticipated. I always thought that TV will remain king as there are advertisers supporting the cause. Internet came and it was like a wildfire of entertainment, killing television instantly. Internet contents from so-called "influencers" and ordinary people are now the king. Now, producers can't run with their money since TV production is fairly expensive, yet these low-cost contents from nobodies are earning more from Ads more than TV networks. If you tried searching YouTube, you can see that these local TV companies venture on having their own channel for survival, so their contents will still remain relevant, but they are no match for new-blood since they deliver their content faster, better and more efficient than TV network.
What killed the TV stations are the Search features available on internet. Skip YouTube, skip Vimeo, just Google what you want and all the entertainment is at your disposal. Forget waiting for your favorite show when you can just use the search button to actually find cat videos or funny videos. Television could not adjust to your likings, and it is dependent on content producers, writers, and has a fixed pattern which internet does not have. Internet is like a door to everything, no limitations, no hesitation, unsensored and unstoppable. A perfect recipe for disaster, in which people always wanted.
So the question would be, who would still want to watch TV when there's content on the internet?
Internet surely laid the television dead and it's never be rising from the dead soon.
I had my first desktop in 1998, it was a windows 97 PC with 8-bit games in it. No one in the household has ever had a internet connection, for we know that computer has floppy disk and used primarily for offices. We didn't even know that it would be a tool in which everybody will be tethered 85% of the time.
The Death of Television
TV has always been the king of the media previously because it gives advertisers direct access to entertainment and put good contents to engage to the customers, for the past 28 years of living in this world, I'd never though that TV will vanish quickly as I anticipated. I always thought that TV will remain king as there are advertisers supporting the cause. Internet came and it was like a wildfire of entertainment, killing television instantly. Internet contents from so-called "influencers" and ordinary people are now the king. Now, producers can't run with their money since TV production is fairly expensive, yet these low-cost contents from nobodies are earning more from Ads more than TV networks. If you tried searching YouTube, you can see that these local TV companies venture on having their own channel for survival, so their contents will still remain relevant, but they are no match for new-blood since they deliver their content faster, better and more efficient than TV network.
What killed the TV stations are the Search features available on internet. Skip YouTube, skip Vimeo, just Google what you want and all the entertainment is at your disposal. Forget waiting for your favorite show when you can just use the search button to actually find cat videos or funny videos. Television could not adjust to your likings, and it is dependent on content producers, writers, and has a fixed pattern which internet does not have. Internet is like a door to everything, no limitations, no hesitation, unsensored and unstoppable. A perfect recipe for disaster, in which people always wanted.
So the question would be, who would still want to watch TV when there's content on the internet?
Internet surely laid the television dead and it's never be rising from the dead soon.
Comments