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Leave your old TV device, don’t trust
it anymore, as the colour times, and more recently, HD times, there’s a
new revolution out there : social voice. I tried therefore, times ago,
to demonstrate some changes in TV world, and gave some points of view of what was our holy toy, in such social fields,
and I must be right now in front of no way path : what build TV today,
in these times with such collaborative initiates ? Is there any time
anymore for journalism or are we all, some of them ? what can make the
difference between speaks on great major channels, and individual
advises, thoughts and comments ?
That it is, the way we arrived now.
Yes it did. The crowd of information,
people thoughts, social revolution of ideas, tumbled down all we taught
about value circle in TV world. How ?
TV’s interest is about entertainment,
information, direct live, and represent anything but having a window on
the world, live, without any move from your sofa. But nowadays, and
since many years, Web makes it better. Why ?
Because we’re fed up spending too much
time, wasting hours in front of TV soaps and nut stuffs, and we find so
much infinite possibilities on web, enforced by 2.0 apps, and supported
by many communities. God gave us speaking abilities (and writing too).
But TV say “no, we don’t need to, just sit down, shut-up, look and
listen…”. And web 2.0 gave us the rules booklet to use words.
How did the web lead the main changes on actual TV ?
Before : there was one channel, in
black and white, everybody was looking the same things, and no hope for
conversation and two ways relation ; a one to all market !
Then, technologies appeared : colors,
high definition, digital, sound, time delay and shifting devices ;
thousands of channels, for a one to many market, but with broadcast
limits : the even new ways of broadcasting (digital terrestrial,
satellite, or DSL/cable), can’t lead to the royal state : one to one
channel, private channel that I’m the program controler, and decide
myself WHAT and WHEN, I’m gonna look.
Now, Web (first tech, then uses) entered the dance, and recently 2.0 fields. What changed ?
1) technology : with DSL access, you
can build your own network (friends, pictures, video…), that can be
compared to “my web” ; as if the web was divided by numbers of users,
and each user could easily create its own ; and the story of Web3.0,
leading you to personal networks (beyond personal contents), starts to
see some “UG Networks”
2) contents : UGC ; great or bad world…
- great for creation and enrichment of
freedom and abilities ; a new field of playing with your neighbours,
without knowing him yet, leveraging the individual potentials
(musicians, writers…)
- bad for piracy, because, nothing ever
belongs to no one ; or must I say, people think they can take, copy
everything on their own without paying anything ; some music bands have
given up hope of making money with their music, and win money on
concerts and shows… ; and you find in several places in dark places on
the web, movies that are not on screen yet…especially in DivX form ;
who owns what ?
- contents on the web are growing
faster than TV ones ; because of costs, probably, and profusion of new
2.0 applications every day, that adds cleverness to others existing yet
: feeds, multi-posting, mobile/live (see for example twitterfone, for saving time spent on writing…)
3) use : PC screen (and mobile devices) replaced TV one
- as you can do anything from mobile
device (PDA, phones, PC…), you can watch “a kind of TV”, chosing
between TV live, Video on Demand, Catchup TV, downloading…Vlog, Blogs
and so long ; it’s like the cake is always the same size, but several
eaters entered to share it…leading each piece fewer…
- time : we don’t live right now, how
we did twenty years ago. “At a time, a use” ; success of recording and
time-shifting is growing ; but don’t solve anything in your “part of
time”, of entertainment. See a post really fun about it on confused of calcutta’s JP Rangaswami there.
When you’re tied within a time, you make your own choices and refuse to
be under influence of classical TV ; you make your own, watching social
web. Personnay, although I worked on it several years, I understand the
escape of time toward the web…Less you have time, more your choice is
accurate
4) last but not least, freeness…To get
TV contents with value (actual, blockbusters, or live sports…) you paid
the high price…And when you already paid the device, the service (VoIP,
Web access…), how much money stay in your wallet…?
Welcome to kind UGC’ers, and the
infinite land of creation. And for ones who wait for their awards, they
can anyway enter in Second Life to get a virtual one…