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Re:Why TV Lost by kajecounterhack on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @01:22PM (#501713)
Actually, I recently read an article about how people have been watching more TV while also increasing how much time they spend online. There are as many TVs as people per household in the US. I don't think the two will ever converge. I mean think about it -- people are buying fewer desktops and more netbooks now. Netbooks and the cloud are the future of "computing" as we know it. TVs will just get bigger, and they'll be things we use at home. So... the two will coexist peacefully as always.

Though, Paul has a point. Computers can serve the function of TVs.

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Re:Why TV Lost by coglethorpe on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @01:29PM (#501730)
He said "Facebook killed TV," but I often check Facebook on my laptop while watching TV. Netbooks and PDAs take it a step further - letting us multi-task our slack time.
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Re:Why TV Lost by axod on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @03:26PM (#501913)
Most people I know do as well. I think the article has many such flaws.
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Re:Why TV Lost by defunkt on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @01:37PM (#501743)
Does "watching more TV" mean "sitting in front of a screen at 8pm every Thursday and watching until the show's completion at 9pm?"

I personally watch more TV than I ever have before, now that my Mac Mini is hooked up to my screen and I have a DVR. But that supports the article's point: the old synchronous TV network business model is losing.

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Re:Why TV Lost by brlewis on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @01:36PM (#501741)
TV doesn't have to be in decline yet for someone to say it's lost this particular contest. Anything so entrenched is going to take a long time to actually go away.
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