The death of traditional television

Amerion · Post by **Amerion** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:09 am

On October 20^th 2014, Adobe published the Video Benchmark Report which suggest that traditional cabel providers are losing audience to online video streaming.

After examining data from over 1,300 media and entertainment outlets, the tech giant found that while television consumption increased by 388 percent year-over-year, programmers also recorded an increase of unique monthly viewers by 146 percent YoY across browsers and TV apps.

It is futile to deny the emergence of Internet video streaming and the subsequent rise of such services as Netflix and Hulu, the former with an average of 34.7 Million UVs (unique visitors) per month (in the United States of America). The question I pose is whether the rise of this service represents the gradual death of traditional television.

Seker · Post by **Seker** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:30 am

Netflix began this, honestly.

Impossible Girl · Post by **Impossible Girl** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:39 am

This is an interesting situation. I no longer have a cable TV subscription and I'm able to watch most of the content that I'm interested via Netflix, broadcast and torrent feeds. Recently our local fiber optics content provider introduced something closer to a la carte programming but it is still bundling, just smaller more focused bundles. It will be hard for a lot of programming to continue that is propped up by the old model and doesn't get the viewership to stand on its own.

Post by **Severisen Montresor** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 9:11 am

SlingTV seemed like an interesting option.

Impossible Girl · Post by **Impossible Girl** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 9:37 am

And then it didn't?

Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:03 am

I just haven't used it, I suppose. It certainly looks appealing.

Impossible Girl · Post by **Impossible Girl** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:55 am

A friend uses it and is happy with it.