Will Tv Succumb to the Internet?

Piracy has become a major issue in the United States. For every motion picture that has been featured in theaters also has been pirated onto the Internet the next day, and for every new musical album that is released, yet there is a free torrent file of the album within the same hour. Even though these online pirates steal music and movies from other companies and make a drastic profit, yet these “rogue” websites receive 53 billions visits a year from across the globe according to Creative America. The persistence of the thieves that break copyright laws of the productions has lead the entertainment business to place a definitive complaint to the U.S. government of the constant notion of piracy. While the notion of piracy was not left

However, in the era of the Internet, the market has changed. Cable television has been challenged by many alternative venues of media consumption, most notably in the form of the Internet. "There has been some competition from satellite TV players and (in a few areas) TV over IP" (Masnick 2008). "Thanks to the rise of Netflix, Hulu and hardware like the Roku box and Apple TV, cutting the cord to cable TV doesn't mean cutting yourself off from your favorite shows and channels" (Glaser 2010). However, most high-speed Internet consumers receive their Internet connection from the cable company, which indirectly funnels money to support cable TV.

The advancement and development in delivery of media content has also affected the audience’s behavior in certain manner. In distant past, families use to gather around the only television screen in home and enjoy the prime time programs aired by these limited broadcasters. “Millions of households already have cancelled pay-TV subscriptions - up to 10 million U.S. households are currently broadband-only. And about 45 percent of Americans stream television shows at least once a month, according to research firm eMarketer. That number is expected to increase to 53 percent or 175 million people by 2018.” Anderson, Mae, and Michael Liedtke. "HBO Unleashes Streaming from Cable Contracts." The Charleston Gazette, 16 Oct. 2014. Web.

As an individual who is looking to cut cable and pursue a streaming service, I believe that Hulu’s $39.99 Live Stream subscription, as described in the case, could be a strong supplement for pay TV. Although margins for this offering are predicted to be low, I believe that the development of such a subscription illustrates Hulu’s ability to complete market research and listen to consumers. This package indicated that Hulu understands that consumers want Live TV, but wishes to avoid costly bills and wasted

Video on Demand: Video on demand has already had a huge impact but it will continue to grow. The more shows they manage to get for video on demand, the more people will possibly sign up. There are already millions of people who use Netflix all around the world and with it coming to more devices (Including game consoles like PS4 and the Xbox One) video on demand is one of the biggest emerging technologies out there

In addition to more programming, this could impact regulations in the media industry. Comprehensive studies will

We’re told that Piracy and counterfeiting are wrong, but how bad are they? When you think about it, we all want the same things; Whether it’s to see the newest episode of that hit TV series or watching a new movie, we want just that! Theater prices are already ridiculous and cable companies are nickel and diming customers monthly making it almost impossible to afford TV entertainment. I say, go for that new streaming device and I can guarantee you that you will find someone who will offer a counterfeit, also known as an imitation of a good not consented for re-distribution , device that’s equipped with pirated downloads for a small fee and you’re all set to cut those cable ties. We live in a technological world and people are eager to explore

Acclaimed actor and social commentator, Will Rogers, once quipped, “It costs so much to run for office, most people can 't even afford to lose.” Rogers’ quote rings true, even in the almost eight decades following his death. It was estimated that both President Obama and Mitt Romney topped $1 billion during their 2012 presidential bids, a monstrous number, even when discussing campaign finance. Ever since our democracy began, politics has been equated with money, and election winners were generally wealthy. Since the rise of technology, the one way to get the attention of the voting public was to appear on TV, either through televised debates and town hall meetings, or through political advertisements. However, time slots for things like that cost money, and a lot of it. Because television has become such a large political platform, should candidates get free airtime for their ads or debates? Such legislation has been debated for years, the first of which being proposed by John F. Kennedy in 1962. The most recent being the Political Campaign Broadcast Activity Improvement Act, co-sponsored by John McCain and Russ Feingold. Even though no major leaps or bounds have been made in amending this aspect of campaign finance, several notable politicians have realized that our system is broken, and something needs to be fixed.

Summarise the future of the sectors of free-to-air television, retail and exhibition due to the rise of

Thirty years ago, if somebody wanted to listen to music they would have to power up their record or cassette player. If they wanted to watch a movie they would either have to break out a VHS tape or go to a movie theater. Ten years ago, however, it became slightly easier: the listener could simply pull up a song on their personal computer saved from a CD or insert a DVD to watch a movie. Today, things are drastically different. Where buying or consuming media needed some tangible form in the past, it now only requires an internet connection. With the advent of websites such as YouTube and services such as iTunes that allow anyone to disseminate their media, it is not only easy for people to find either videos or music they like, but with

Today, digital technology and the Internet are deeply reshaping the motion picture industry with a trend toward the digitalisation and disintermediation (Zhu, 2010). Media streaming services are an example of this current restructuration. Providing an access to a wide collection of entertainment online at a cheap price, they have penetrated the monopoly that cinema once enjoyed (Herberg, 2017). A significant example can be found in the US company ‘Netflix’, source of nearly a third of all North American downstream internet traffic at peak hours (Hallinan & Striphas, 2016). Once a small DVD subscription service created in 1997, it offers today to its subscribers to watch its own produced movies and shows as well as content of other

There are new opportunities for the industry. With the advancement of technology many companies can take advantage of the Internet. Currently Netflix expects to spend $7 million-$14 million this year on its Internet Video-On-Demand offering, which it will launch during 2005. Along with opening more distribution centers, this will cut down on delivery costs and time. They expect Internet VOD to have little

An impressive push to extend intellectual property by the entertainment industry may result in the development of new technologies and revolution in the way people watch TV, access information at home, experience interactive TV. But at what cost?

Many years ago, people gathered around the TV-sets and later on families together with friends met up and watched their favourite shows. Nowadays, due to the availability of low-priced technology as well as various channels and programmes, people lock themselves in a private space watching TV. (Harboe cited in Nicole C.Stephan W.Brenda B.Christine G. 2015). As a result, people have multiple preferences in TV programmes but nowhere to express their opinions. “One-way” communication in television industry is facing a big challenge. Web 2.0 comes out and provides a revolutionary opportunity for television industry, after that, social television is born at the right moment.

What do we really mean by television? The way we watch television has drastically changed over the last fifteen years due to new technologies such as digital television and services providing on-demand access. These drastic changes have had a huge effect on viewers and have “allowed online streaming platforms to dominate and revolutionize the way the audience consumes” (Aliloupour) media, ultimately allowing the viewer to be in total control of how, when and where they want their content. The idea of only being able to watch television on a television set is now a thing of the past. Due to technology, the audience now has a vast variety of options on how they can access content. By using scholarly articles, research in new media and Internet sites I will be analyzing current television and where the future of television will be heading.