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Six Ways TV Is Changing Your Life c/o The Chicago Tribune

Funny about how newspapers still use old-school headlines; it seems they still attract interest and prompt page-flippers to stop and actually read the darned thing. When and why did we stop? (Just a thought.)

So ... read this long article from the Chicago Tribune. It's worth your effort. It starts out talking about DVRs (digital video recorders) such as TiVO. Gives an anecdote about MLB.tv "which enables subscribers to watch certain baseball games from anywhere, via broadband computer connections." Further that in the UK "subscribers to SkyTV ... can change the camera angles on the soccer games they're watching, and place a bet while they're at it."

The gist is that "TV is going to change more in the next five years than it has in the last 50. But how does this affect you?"

Well ... it will affect all of us greatly. Importantly, this article is about TV but not the demise of TV. Because, in my opinion, it's not going away. Not at all. But it's bound to morph into something we're having a hard time visualizing at this moment. My idea is TV will become what I've called "DVD on Demand."

This article makes a case ... six in fact ... for what TV is becoming. In short, what it's changing into before our very eyes.