Television has drastically evolved since the 1950s. The changes that are most obvious are the quality, size and appearance. Today television is still a predominant source of receiving news and entertainment as it was before. There is one difference though, more and more people are starting to use their phones, tablets and computers to watch television. Although this is something that can be seen in almost every household, I don’t think that this will be theme in the future. There is something different about watching television on the actual television than on a handheld device. Watching television on a handheld device is completely different than watching on television. From personal experience I know that you are unable to watch every
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First of all, the size of a hand held device does not compare to that of a television. Its really hard to go from watching TV on a 72-inch television to watching on your 15-inch cell-phone. Now it is too late to start ridding the cell-phone world of television access as it already has it at high qualities. “Already, the major U.S. wireless companies offer video on cell phones. With these services, such as Verizon Wireless ' V Cast, the videos are downloaded to the phones. Qualcomm 's MediaFLO service would broadcast the programming live to cell phones, much like a television show is aired” (Balint). We can already have access to TV on our phones which is great, but can people actually enjoy watching TV from a device that can bring on so many other distractions? So many other things go on with our phones than just phone calls and they would definitely interrupt any type of viewing of television. Imagine watching a dramatic scene then all of a sudden a pop-up of dogs playing in the snow. A number of people would stop watching that TV show and watch the dogs playing in the snow. Now this is just a simple example that a number of people probably would do I know that I would do so even though dogs aren’t that appealing to me. This just shows that anyone could be distracted by what is on the smart phone or any other hand held device. Viewers would truly be …show more content…
The DVR essentially replaces the old ways of recording television shows that you miss like a VCR would do. The only way that you could do this though is if your cable provider provides this service. The trick to this is that most providers only allow DVR recording on the television and you cannot watch it online. Let’s say I’m in jeopardy of missing the big Yankee game. All I have to do is schedule the recording of the game on television and when I come back home later watch it. This is truly a remarkable thing that companies can offer television users. Viewers spend more time watching TV through their DVR’s than they do on regular television. “More viewers are also using DVRs or video on-demand services offered by their cable provider to watch TV after its live airing. Viewers spent 14 hours and 20 minutes per month watching so-called time-shifted TV during the most recent quarter, up from 13 hours and 12 minutes a year ago” (Fewer People). If people spend more time on their DVR’s than they do watching actual television, then aren’t they essentially watching television? Confusing? Yes, but there is some truth behind that statement. If the DVR can only be accessed on the actual television and not the internet, then people are watching the television and not using other devices to do so. Without the television, there is no DVR and no opportunity to catch
First of all, the size of a hand held device does not compare to that of a television. Its really hard to go from watching TV on a 72-inch television to watching on your 15-inch cell-phone. Now it is too late to start ridding the cell-phone world of television access as it already has it at high qualities. “Already, the major U.S. wireless companies offer video on cell phones. With these services, such as Verizon Wireless ' V Cast, the videos are downloaded to the phones. Qualcomm 's MediaFLO service would broadcast the programming live to cell phones, much like a television show is aired” (Balint). We can already have access to TV on our phones which is great, but can people actually enjoy watching TV from a device that can bring on so many other distractions? So many other things go on with our phones than just phone calls and they would definitely interrupt any type of viewing of television. Imagine watching a dramatic scene then all of a sudden a pop-up of dogs playing in the snow. A number of people would stop watching that TV show and watch the dogs playing in the snow. Now this is just a simple example that a number of people probably would do I know that I would do so even though dogs aren’t that appealing to me. This just shows that anyone could be distracted by what is on the smart phone or any other hand held device. Viewers would truly be …show more content…
The DVR essentially replaces the old ways of recording television shows that you miss like a VCR would do. The only way that you could do this though is if your cable provider provides this service. The trick to this is that most providers only allow DVR recording on the television and you cannot watch it online. Let’s say I’m in jeopardy of missing the big Yankee game. All I have to do is schedule the recording of the game on television and when I come back home later watch it. This is truly a remarkable thing that companies can offer television users. Viewers spend more time watching TV through their DVR’s than they do on regular television. “More viewers are also using DVRs or video on-demand services offered by their cable provider to watch TV after its live airing. Viewers spent 14 hours and 20 minutes per month watching so-called time-shifted TV during the most recent quarter, up from 13 hours and 12 minutes a year ago” (Fewer People). If people spend more time on their DVR’s than they do watching actual television, then aren’t they essentially watching television? Confusing? Yes, but there is some truth behind that statement. If the DVR can only be accessed on the actual television and not the internet, then people are watching the television and not using other devices to do so. Without the television, there is no DVR and no opportunity to catch