YouTube on the phone and YouTube replacing TV?
YouTube (and other internet video watching) is not going to replace TV watching. Last I checked bandwidth is too slow and not available like cable and satellite. Plenty of people are ponying up for HDTV for xmas this year. It is the year of HD, finally. And people are telling us now that YouTube is going to replace normal TV watching? Not going to happen in the next 10 years. I like my HD quality. Heck, I don’t find myself watching any other channels. If it isn’t HD, I am not interested. I barely watch digital channels as the quality just isn’t there. And the sound on YouTube videos, when pumped out of a nice stereo receiver? Complete crap. Maybe it is good on a computer, but it isn’t crisp 5.1 that most good TV channels now provide.
YouTube on a cellphone? Not going to happen. It is bad enough quality on YouTube.com, why would I want to try to cram it on a tiny phone screen and wait for the download? It is hard enough to browse to web pages on a good quality smartphone with full bars.
Are people spending more time on the internet and less watching TV, sure. Same thing happened to radio listening when TV came along. Declare TV dead. Probably tongue-in-cheek a little, but wildly off-base.
People are jumping the gun, again.
