Re:ESPN subscriber losses raise questions about the TV ecosy...
by labster on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:06AM
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Names of formats have a way of sticking around. The novel hasn't been new for a long time. Films are distributed with disks, and solid state disk drives have neither disks nor drives.
Language moves on. We already have a retronym[1] called "broadcast television" that incorporates what you're describing, while the definition of television will probably change with our devices.
Language moves on. We already have a retronym[1] called "broadcast television" that incorporates what you're describing, while the definition of television will probably change with our devices.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retronym