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- Will YouTube and Friends Kill Television?
  
  A post about TV 2.0 by Josh on February 1st, '08
  
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- “It won’t be long before some geeky kid can put his well-made clip next to a movie trailer and actually show it up.”
  
  When will YouTube and its ilk take TV’s thunder? Networks have already decided that it’s futile to resist the world of online video sharing. Unlike the music industry, they have mostly come to the conclusion that Web 2.0 sites can be used effectively for marketing television shows and films. I often peruse video sharing sites to find the latest trailers and show excerpts.
  
  But here’s where YouTube has the upper hand: Choice. Sure, there are 900 and something channels available from your friendly cable company, but even that can’t compete with the millions of videos I can find online. Yes, there is a lot are crap to sift through sometimes, but the cream usually rises to the top. And, once you become a well-versed YouTube surfer, said cream is only a few clicks away.
  
  Say I want to see something about cooking in Ghana. I wait until the No Reservations episode featuring the West African nation to be broadcast or become available On Demand. Or I can search for this rather obscure subject on YouTube and find some decent quality videos.
  
  So will I cancel my cable and figure out how to hook my laptop up to the big screen in the living room? Probably not yet, but it seems clear where all this online video stuff is going. It’s more convenient, more accessible, cheaper to watch and produce, and so one, and so on. Video cameras and editing software are getting less and less pricey. It won’t be long before some geeky kid can put his well-made clip next to a movie trailer and actually show it up. It will take a new method of distribution before the upstarts can start challenging Hollywood, but, if people start demanding to see these “homemade” movies in a different format, on a larger screen, I’m sure someone will figure out the means to do so.
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2 Responses to “Will YouTube and Friends Kill Television?”
1. bobbMovie Says:
  December 23rd, 2009 at 8:16 pm
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2. hula hoop Says:
  March 25th, 2010 at 2:19 am
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