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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Very cool, I believe this should be the next step of television in general. The same market rules apply for the internet as they do for TV. Nowadays the only thing seperating the internet and TV is convenience (TiVo allows us to skip commercials, rewatch things, and "watch" things that don't air when we are free). If you make the internet into the new TV, it doesn't change how the system should work....you, however, will just have a more accurate count of who watches each show/episode and you will probably reach more veiwers (once the internet ignorant generations start being replaced by an net-telligent group). Yay for first steps!
- rabidsnail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You have a time machine!? Can I have a go?
- hode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Temecula isn't exactly what I'd call a small town. San Diegans seeking affordable mcmansions have been flocking inland for years.
- wild, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5its things the Xbox and AppleTV might make that a reality. But its difficult road, because like it or not, people want to sit in frot of their TV and be entertained. I don't want to have to type in NBC.com to see shows. I just want to flip a channel. TV won't go away. It may be extended though. its nice to catch up on shows you miss, things like that.
- jackflack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I live in Temecula, the is more of a cable access station than a fledgling local news station. It broadcasts on the lowest voltage possible it seems and people living in Temecula have a hard time getting their Over-Air broadcasts. This is probably the only way to get people from Temecula to actually watch something from the station. DTV does not carry it. Adelphia did not carry it. I am not sure if Time Warner carries it now since I do not have local cable like 70% of the area.
- bradjward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Certainly not the first. A local station, KHQA in Quincy, IL (Pop. 40,000) has been doing this for nearly 1/2 a year. Mostly sport segments, but still the same concept of posting clips up on YouTube.
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=KHQA - wolvyne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yep Temecula is closing in on 100k people and one of the few places where almost everyone now has a huge lifted truck and there are slutters on almost every corner. * At least when their not in school * Watched it grow from when it used to be smaller than Fallbrook, and many will wonder wtf is Fallbrook lol.
- aNoble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I lived in Temecula for a while. It'll be nice to be able to check out the news there online.
- evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I haven't had a TV for several years.
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2man i miss temecula. wine country *droool*
course this year they may be selling ice wines. - TheFunnyDigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We will definitely have better statistic in regards to views and viewer retention. Advertisers will have concrete information that television dose not offer. We'll see a whole new form of advertising that we haven't seen before.
- whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1According the article, they are mainly aiming this at the local folks. That's good, as people outside of the area are highly unlikely to care about it. Personally, I can't stand to watch local news. There might be five minutes that I'm interested in, buried inside of 55 minutes of total crap. If the stations in my area did this, I would be unlikely to sit down and watch it on youtube. But maybe you'd see blogs spring up that would cull the news down and categorize it so you could actually have an RSS feed worth using.
- whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1Nope, it isn't future tech at all. The problem is how to make money (at least to support your costs) from it. We are already supersaturated when it comes to available entertainment to fill our free time. This will be even more true when you can get the stuff already being produced on demand through methods like bittorrent.
This comment is aimed at about your first four paragraphs. After that, I think the stuff must have started kicking in. - hiscity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1(chuckles!)
Sooner or later one of these hungry small town broadcasters is going to figure out that they can outdo the majors by having less commercials, more "natural advertising" like a host drinking a pepsi, and covering more and more interesting news, than the majors do with their lock-step same-format same-time programming. Good!
Now if broadcast outlets in each locality would put an active link up on google earth showing current and upcoming programming... Just the links... Imagine what it would look like filtered for high school football games, or basketball, or soccer... Or various local jazz stations showing their currently streaming play list... spread out across the continent.
A bright green light on each icon indicating an active broadcast and a yellow light to show "server nearing max throughput" would also be handy. Red .... no don't use red -- reserved for unfolding emergencies only.
This isn't future tech... I could as easily have said: amateur concerts or shows, or podcasts, or plays... each on its own layer.
Nor does it have to be spread across the earth ... can't think of a better place for sci-fi & fan-fic active broadcast links than google earth or google mars. Returning back to google earth, pirate broadcasters and foreign casinos could stake a claim on high seas locales, (the proverbial "floating crap game").
Come to think of it, google also needs to go subterranean on their elevation models, for google underground. Figure the odds on who would hang a link down there? The trick is simply to put up an active link at the desired location... wherever, which of course will take you to the originating site or broadcast. Think of it like a treasure hunt compared to browsing.
Then there's "time." Google needs to improve their time feature so that an era could be selected: the Wild West, Rome, or the Stone Age where all the evolutionists can hang out, with videos, etc. appropriate to the motif. Perhaps they should call the starting point for all this -- "google nexus."
As for me, I'll be content with "google heaven" -- no atheist, unbelievers, or unrepentant sinners allowed. Be gone!
The point is to layer the web spatially so that you can find what you want where you'd expect it. And not have to filter through distractions.
Back to now... "The pilot has turned on the fasten seat belts sign, please bring your tray tables and seat backs upright. Here on 'hiscity visions,' we hope you've enjoyed this brief excursion! Brace yourselves ... we'll be re-materializing shortly.... - epilonious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Welcome to the magical "breaking down of the fourth wall" of the internet.
I'd imagine by 2010 we start seeing two cables to houses. One for power, and one for phone/internet/television/future-overlord-hailing-compliance. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+162 diggs and 1 comment?
edit: 2 comments now. ;)
I think this is really cool and shows where the world might be headed.. maybe nobody will even need TV.. just internet. Pretty interesting.. - stevesearer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I live in Temecula and am planning a Diggnation on the Bigscreen event. If you are interested in watching Diggnation at a movie theater, leave me a comment here:
http://www.insidesocialnews.com/2007/01/13/diggnation-on-the-movie-screen/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1your very strong haha
- venuspcs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1By 2020 there will be NO BROADCAST (FREE TO AIR) television left. There will still be cable/satellite until probably 2030 or so, then everything will be via the internet over 50mps or higher internet connections to every home.
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