Will TVs have 'died out' in 100 years?

brummytom

The Television's been around since the 1930s, gradually appearing in more and more homes from the '50s. For the past 50 years, people have grown up, unlike previous generations, more devoid of any real culture than ever.


But... do you think TV (in some form) will still be the focal point of every living room in the country in a hundred years; or will people eventually get bored of it?

galwayrush

The new organic diode TV's will be able to reproduce themselves by then.:cool:

KeithM89_old

With the quality of RTE lately itll 'die out' in 10

ElaElaElano

I think it's gradually dying out anyway...very gradually. Can't remember the last time I sat down on the sofa and watched TV, cos with the internet and things like 4oD/youtube/iPlayer etc. everything's there to watch whenever's convenient.

thetonynator

It will be there, but it won't be broadcast like usual. It will be internet, where you chooso what you want to watch from one of a variety of websites. . . Channel flicking will become extinct, and we'll be much less likely to watch old repeats and films from years ago. . . And ' ads by google' will take over our ad breaks! It won't die yout for cultural reasons, just advance and change form.

Pauleta

Projector screens will take over. They are getting cheaper but the thing they have to combat is that you cant really watch them with the curtains open during the day.

VinnyTGM

It will keep evolving to suit whatever is wanted.

thetonynator

Keithm89 wrote: »

With the quality of RTE lately itll 'die out' in 10

more like 10 weeks with this summers standards. . . I'm not a miriam o'callaghan fan. . . I used to think she was a bit of a milf but then they put amy huberman on beside her and miriam is just not up to that standard!

enfant terrible

Yes RTE plan to go HD in 2110

Biggins

100 years? By that stage we will all be watching the hovering, anti-gravity iTelly version 2 from Apple.
(Version 1 will be the one with the bugs!)

DOC09UNAM

and itelly, would be a tv. :P


And yeah, I think it'll be gone in the next ten years.

Agricola

TV in 100 years............ My guess would be on-demand 3D entertainment. The need for a square box in the corner will probably be gone and replaced by a holographic projector which will practically put you inside the film you're watching.

Minstrel27

enfant terrible wrote: »

Yes RTE plan to go HD in 2110

2011 actually.

tony1kenobi

Everything will have died out in 100 years.

mikom

brummytom wrote: »

Will TVs have 'died out' in 100 years?

No........... there will always be a certain percentage of men wanting to dress in frocks.

The_Kew_Tour

Boards.ie will be the thing in 100 years

o1s1n

What will all your furniture point at?

DOC09UNAM

Projector screens.

Hank_Jones

100 years?

How could anyone see that far into the future.

The first moving pictures were created 115 years ago, how could anyone predict which way things will go.

Donkey Oaty

Print, radio and photography have lived on despite predictions of their demise.

I think that TV and inter...net...chat....boards...

/cough...

/cough...

/says 'feck yez all anyway'

baltimore sun

Only time I watch tv now is either for news or for some live sport if I want to watch a show I'll download it. No ads and I get to keep it forever.

Of course, I can't download irish made shows but that doesn't really nother me because Irish made shows are mostly terrible, we've decent film talent in Ireland but when it comes to tv, we're feckin brutal.

Anyway, I only use the tele for live sport/news or my xbox, everything else I watch on the internet or I'll download it

Donkey Oaty

baltimore sun wrote: »

Only time I watch tv now is either for news or for some live sport if I want to watch a show I'll download it. No ads and I get to keep it forever.

Of course, I can't download irish made shows but that doesn't really nother me because Irish made shows are mostly terrible, we've decent film talent in Ireland but when it comes to tv, we're feckin brutal.

Anyway, I only use the tele for live sport/news or my xbox, everything else I watch on the internet or I'll download it

Captured in its entirity before well-meaning historian corrects it.

baltimore sun

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Captured in its entirity before well-meaning historian corrects it.

exactly

The Mad Hatter

Frankly, it should be dead already. I don't know why people hold on to them - I'd much rather decide what I want to watch than leave it in the hands of a bunch of programming directors. If studios would just get their act together and start an internet-based rent/buy scheme for everything, then everyone would win and, if 4OD and the BBC I-Player are anything to go by, it'd reduce piracy too.

Frankly, I'm still waiting for Steve Jobs to come along and fix this, but the Apple TV was a flop, largely because people just don't seem to be willing to trade in a whole bunch of useless channels for the choice of what to watch and when.

o1s1n

If you collect old consoles and games you need to hang on to a CRT. If I'm alive for the next 100 years (I seriously doubt it) I'll still have a CRT somewhere.

bryaner

About as much chance of dying out as cock sucking.

Biggins

bryaner wrote: »

About as much chance of dying out as cock sucking.

Poor farmyard bird but whatever your into!

IM0

I thought Tv was already dead

OutlawPete

There will always be a TV in people's homes and if anything they will become even more important than they have been.

I think the will just become more hide-away-able

I'd say they will be so thin they will roll up.

A portion will be visible and when you want to watch TV, you will just extend it out along a wall.

I think most people will have a wall in their home for these gigantic fold-away-able screens.

You will of course have a bluetooth (or other information sending signal) keyboard type tablet thingy, that you will just sit on your lap and access the internet on.

You will then bring this from room to room and use it on whichever screen in your home you wish to (most homes will have many fold-away-able screens).

There will no such thing as DVDs, CDs or any type of recording as you will just have anything you wish to watch on demand.

Memory cards will still be around though, just to transfer media from different devices and such.

The biggest change to mutimedia viewing in the home with the Hologram coffee tables than will come out in 2017.

Initially there will be a slow take up on them and people will resist them, but with the introduction and release of life size porn projected holograms, they will be snapped up like hot cakes.

In the summer of 2018 there will be a short time when Sony coffee tables will be recalled after 43 people die while viewing pornographic holograms.

This will all turn out just fine though, as Sony will promise that in future they will include warnings that electrocution is a a distinct possibility if the tables come into contact with any excess bodily fluids.

So, no .. TV is here to stay, thank the lord

K-9

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Frankly, it should be dead already. I don't know why people hold on to them - I'd much rather decide what I want to watch than leave it in the hands of a bunch of programming directors. If studios would just get their act together and start an internet-based rent/buy scheme for everything, then everyone would win and, if 4OD and the BBC I-Player are anything to go by, it'd reduce piracy too.

Frankly, I'm still waiting for Steve Jobs to come along and fix this, but the Apple TV was a flop, largely because people just don't seem to be willing to trade in a whole bunch of useless channels for the choice of what to watch and when.

I'd say Google TV may be the start of it.

Apple? Jaysus, it's hard enough to get people to pay the TV licence, never mind over priced TV's, though Sony do well at that.

bonerm

♪ Internet killed the Video Star ♪

johndoe99

bring on the holodeck.

zenno

brummytom wrote: »

The Television's been around since the 1930s, gradually appearing in more and more homes from the '50s. For the past 50 years, people have grown up, unlike previous generations, more devoid of any real culture than ever.


But... do you think TV (in some form) will still be the focal point of every living room in the country in a hundred years; or will people eventually get bored of it?

I got bored with the idiotbox 2 years ago because of the adverts and repeats every day, dumped it in a neighbours skip which she allowed me to. i really don't think it's going to last as more and more people are opting for the pc interaction instead. unless the idiotbox turns all these people into idiots then they will be screwed. go on people dump that brainwashing box in the bin.

amacachi

"TV"s will have "died out" by and large in 15-20 years, already I could just connect a Skybox to an old PC screen, or more likely another screen that is LCD and really a computer screen but happens to have a TV tuner built in. TV as it was known is already dying and will be gone in 10 years among the under 30s.

thetonynator

thetonynator wrote: »

It will be there, but it won't be broadcast like usual. It will be internet, where you chooso what you want to watch from one of a variety of websites. . . Channel flicking will become extinct, and we'll be much less likely to watch old repeats and films from years ago. . . And ' ads by google' will take over our ad breaks! It won't die yout for cultural reasons, just advance and change form.

Hell yeah I will :cool:

Mike 1972

brummytom wrote: »

For the past 50 years, people have grown up, unlike previous generations, more devoid of any real culture than ever.

Prior to TV "real culture" was largely the preserve of the well healed urban elite

TV has made "real culture" available to the masses although whether many of then choose to actually avail of it is another matter