The end of TV as we know it: hyperland

October 9th, 2009

TV the culture hearth of the family home?

If found this post over at Russell Davies’s gaff online. Russell has such a lovely turn of phrase dontchya think? Although as someone also said to me. ‘sometimes Alan being right is not necessarily the right thing to be’.

Russell writes

If / when telly people complain that their industry was blind-sided by the internet/interactivity I think it might be fair to point out that this was made in 1990. And that it was shown – ON THE TELLY. Or would that be mean?

Did someone cough the word, ‘hubris’?

We say: Why use your TV to watch repetitive drivel when you can plug your PlayStation into it instead? Whilst you confide in your friend that your TiVo thinks your gay. And someone has to go down the hall to the ‘Grand Fromage’ to tell him that TV advertising is the equivalent of the silent movies of the 21st Century.

In the future of television, we get a vision of well, the future,

To begin, the trend toward larger and larger televisions will continue as screens double in size every 18 months. Televisions will eventually grow so large that families will be forced to watch TV from outside their homes, peering in through the window. Random wolf attacks will make viewing more dangerous. And, just as televisions grow larger and more complicated, so will remote controls. In fact, changing channels will soon require people to literally jump from button to button. Trying to change the channel while simultaneously lowering the volume will require two people and will frequently lead to kinky sex.

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