August 27, 2007

Vint Cerf predicts the end of TV as we know it

"TV is rapidly approaching the same kind of crunch moment that the music industry faced with the arrival of the MP3 player.

85% of all video we watch is pre-recorded, so you can set your system to download it all the time. You're still going to need live television for certain things - like news, sporting events and emergencies - but increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod, where you download content to look at later."

-- Vint Cerf , talking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.

[via The Guardian]

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