Came across an interesting article this morning by Dick Siklos in the NYTimes a couple of days ago re: converging TV and PCs.
Did you realize that in the last year...
* ABC, NBC, and now Fox have all started allowing 'first-look' and preview downloads of their most popular shows(Desperate Housewives, Prison Break, Lost et al.) ?
* Warner Bros. Home Video has just announces a distribution deal via BitTorrent that will soon allow the downloading giant to change the way movie distributors target the viewing public?
* Quite a few studies suggest that over 42% of North Americans get most of their daily news content from online sources, and declining circulation rates for both modern print mediums (newspaper and pulpy magazines) seems to suggest such traditional, non-mobile media is dead?
The only thing that Siklos forgets to bring up is the surging popularity behind mobile gaming technologies. How many friends do you know that are obsessed with their CrackBerry, or boyfriends do you lose to their beloved video games, and look at the increased interactive promise behind such games as the Sims or even Facade, the online soap opera created on a shoestring that's racked up than 325,000 independent downloads since June of '05? Kinda makes you wonder, will face-to-face conversation or sitting down to my beloved print edition of the Sunday NYTimes - soon be a relic activity?
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
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