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The Best TV is Not Yet on TV

April 30, 2007 at 18:44 | Print This Post Print This Post

Bar none, the best TV I’ve seen in ages, and a great example of the threat that Apple TV presents, are the TEDTalks videos. Do yourself a favour and expand your world and mind by watching a few. Watching a bunch of them recently got me thinking that it doesn’t take too much imagination to realize that online video is going to turn TV on its ear. Why not, for example, produce inexpensive video of every Broadway and off to off-off-off Broadway play, for viewing anywhere, anytime, and so on? I would gladly pay for the opportunity to watch. I suspect that as online video matures we’ll see very interesting repurposing of content originally intended for other viewing modes.


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4 Responses to “The Best TV is Not Yet on TV”


  1. Josh Nursing (2 comments.)
    May 2nd, 2007 at 19:03

    Hi Rob, I like the fact that the extremely expensive TED conference allows the talks to be seen for free on the net. There are some fantastic videos on Google video as well.

    Best


  2. Rob Hyndman (317 comments.)
    May 2nd, 2007 at 21:50

    Hi Josh - I think it’s a great thing too. And the BMW commercials are pretty easy to watch, too.


  3. Josh Nursing (2 comments.)
    May 3rd, 2007 at 12:02

    I agree that the commercials are non-intrusive. I’m a big fan of the Lamborghini Countach though - not too much of BMW’s