What effect will this have on people's viewing habits? Will it encourage
- time-shifting (watching programmes but not at the scheduled time)
- convergence (Do you need a TV if your computer can show the programmes)
- globalisation (BBC TV will be viewable all over the world - and presumably we'll be able to see other countries' TV soon)
- Series sales (Will people wait for the new series of Lost to be shown on UK networks if they can download it from an American TV site?)
- DVD sales (Will online TV downloads do to the DVD industry what music downloads have done to the CD industry? Will piracy find a new outlet?)
3 comments:
Piracy already has that outlet !
i thought that it was the present of broadcasting?
you can really already do so much of that stuff already, now its just legal surely?
Maybe the title should have been "The Future of MAINSTREAM Broadcasting".
These things always start with the geeks and the pirates (and the pornographers) but when the BBC follows suit it has to be significant.
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