[MacDV] January 1, 2009 Doomsday Plan (cancelled)

[Robert Rothgery]

Doomsday has been cancelled.

We will get our television off the internet, cable, satellite and 
whatever new technology the Chinese and Indians invent in the near 
term.

The instrument for access will not be a computer as we know it today.  
It will be a wireless wall wart that communicates by a remote contol 
similar to the units we use today.  On that remote the user can select 
the media source or program and watch the show on a regular video 
screen.  Sources will include, the usual originators all intercollated 
into the remote control menu.

Interesting that so many pundits are unable to visualize watching 
television from the web on any screen besides the computer.  The 
desktop computer will be removed from the television loop.

Oh, and it will all be pay per view - just like iTunes.

Problem is that we will all become more insular because we will only 
choose programs we want and will receive little cultural pollination 
like one finds channel surfing or reading a newspaper.

My 2¢

Robert Rothgery
Senior Producer,
Mt Diablo Television
Pleasant Hill, CA




On Jul 19, 2005, at 6:53 AM, Brian Olesky wrote:

> How does the BBC work without commercials? Somebody has to foot the 
> bill.
> Taxpayers?
>
> Brian
>
> On 7/19/05 1:29 AM, "Paul Moortgat" <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:
>
>> BBC work without commercials.
>>
>> Paul Moortgat
>>
>> On 19 Jul 2005, at 06:24, Brian Olesky wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/18/05 5:20 PM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> and that other guy. No TV. Sure...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually I'm close to being there, I'm down to a couple hours of
>>>> TV a week,
>>>> and that's normally PBS.  When I was younger I used to watch a
>>>> *LOT* of TV,
>>>> now it basically just grates on my nerves.  I can't stand all the
>>>> commercials.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Before you go trashing those commercials, remember that they're the
>>> reason
>>> you have "free" TV. The same free TV that several people in this
>>> thread say
>>> is the only TV they'll watch, and the only TV available to the
>>> "underclass."
>>>
>>> TV commercials are just the large (and small) corporations'
>>> contribution to
>>> giving us the "free" TV we've watched since we were kids. If you
>>> don't like
>>> the commercials, don't watch.
>>>
>>> Brian
>>
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