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BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Online video 'eroding TV viewing'
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>> | The online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time, an ICM
>> | survey of 2,070 people for the BBC suggests.
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6168950.stm
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>
> I can understand that you know, I tend to get a bit hooked on a video
> channel of say YouTube or one of the others, watching music videos or some
> comedy thing. It's better than telly because you choose what you want to
> watch and can ignore the adverts, all except one advert that is.
>
> YouTube's purpose is to hold and play videos, nearly all with sound. But
> they use adverts that have sound which you can't turn off. Like one that
> laughs all the time the page is open so you can't hear the sound off the
> video. Wouldn't you have thought they would think of stuff like that before
> accepting the advert.
>
> I watched an entire concert the other night, the picture was good quality,
> the sound was reasonable and it was a concert I would never have gone to
> live because I didn't know that group very well, just knew a couple of
> their songs. They won a fan and I want to see them live next time they are
> passing.
>
> These videos should not only be seen as a free-TV, they can sell themselves
> or the artists too.
>
> I have also found some documentary videos that probably wouldn't make it on
> TV because they weren't professionally made, might have been made by
> students, but in areas that interested me so I enjoyed watching them.
>
This will play out around whether enough interesting but non-copyrighted
material exists or can be created to keep the site up and interesting.
As you say, there are people willing to create content and make it
available for free, of course, the question will be, just as in the
open-source world, how sustainable that is - will people want money in
the end? Or will there always been another generation of people who
want to create for free coming along?
Personally, I think this kind of thing will become ever more common,
although stories like "The Machine Stops" by EM Forster do spring to
mind!
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