Will television survive?

Monkeynut wrote: »

I have 2 sons. One 8 the other 4. They do not know is what rte is. Only thar the late late toy show is on once a year. I barely watch television only the football. Is anyone else in the predicament? How will TV continue?

Will football survive?

Nope. I listened to the European cup matches during the week on the interwebz radio broadcast and was just as what I saw the day afterwards on the youtube highlights. Was better craic too

pleas advice wrote: »

video killed the radio star

Music videos were great. Do they even make them anymore?

Yes, there will continue to be a 'main screen'.

There is a need for a central screen for group gawping at low quality nonsense, and for viewing each others boring cringey pointless recordings and photos.

The tv screen will just adapt to information tech, so smart-tv's doubling as computers.

tl;dr hybrid computer-televisions will become the norm. youtube, amazon, etc, and desktop apps on the big screen in your sitting room.

Monkeynut wrote: »

I have 2 sons. One 8 the other 4.
They do not know is what rte is.
Only that the late late toy show is on once a year.
I barely watch television only the football.
Is anyone else in the predicament?
How will TV continue?

Like seriously, if everyone is watching streams and the what not. how will any channel manage!!

The channels will have catch-up streams as well as live tv channels options. I recently got in Sky Q which has the apps like Netflix, YouTube and Spotify all integrated into a sort of a “hub” as it were, with the live channels and the catch-up tv services. It’s all a fairly seamless experience, and that’s exactly the point - broadcast channels will still make their revenue from advertising as they always did, and premium services will make their money from subscriptions, as they always did.

TVs themselves won’t be going anywhere any time soon either even given the rise in popularity of viewing content on mobile devices, there’s still a huge market for bigger screens, thinner TVs, higher definition etc. They’re still generally the centrepiece in many people’s living rooms.

I think a lot of people are misunderstanding the OP's question. It's not whether we will still own physical screens in our living rooms, it's pretty obvious that we will. It's whether the channels like RTE and Virgin (and to a lesser extent BBC - much bigger market and license fee) can survive to provide for the box in the face of competition from digital.

My own feeling is that while most things that TV channels do is now being done better on subscription services like Netflix and Amazon Video, there is still a massive market for news and sport with some local entertainment (like the Toy Show) on live TV, so that's why we'll continue to have live local Irish channels.

Of concern for TV channels would be the recent development of Amazon moving into live sport in America, and matches are among the highest-viewed programming on Irish television. It's possible we could be watching our Premier League, GAA or Six Nation games on Netflix or something similar in the years to come, which would shrink the usefulness of our local stations to just news and The Late Late Show.