Is There an Echo in the Room?

In what has to be a flash back moment Intel’s VP Sean Maloney has this to say –

The new generation of chips are also designed to enable WiMAX, the evolution of the traditional Wi-Fi technology, but what gets Maloney most excited is the prediction that the internet - and the new generation of chips - will bang the nail in the coffin of traditional television. Despite the publicity over sales of high-definition (HD) TVs, Maloney believes most television channels will be broadcast in the existing standard definition for many years to come. But at the same time, the cost of HD consumer video cameras is falling fast.

“That is a profound change,” he says. “User-generated content is going to become higher quality than professional content. Professional providers may sneer and say it’s not what it looks like, it’s the quality of the content, but that would be to ignore the lessons of the past few years and the emergence of the likes of YouTube.

“Over the next two years you are going to have an explosion in high quality video broadcast on the internet. The same thing that happened to print media in the 1990s with the move to the web will happen with broadcast media.”

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Sound familiar? It should if you have been a loyal ThirdPipe reader. —

I wonder, do you spot the trend? No? Well, read the graph right to left, see it now? What is indicated is that as the age group gets younger the preference for UGC increases. You get to the point that in what used to be the coveted 18-24 age group they would rather play on FaceBook than watch something gorky on even MTV. They want to have their reality show, but they want it interactive as well.

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Its nice to know one is not crazy.