Decline of Television as a Medium of entertainment

well...what annoyed me for years about the television are those shitty commercials. That, and the majority of TV shows don't interest me anymore.

There's also the fact that I can watch just about everything I want on my PC, without the nuisance of commercials. The only thing I watch on TV now is Hockey. That's it.

Yeah, not really son. Television is still the main medium for advertising for companies, why is that?

Because television has never been on the decline, sure younger generations don't watch television as often as they use to, but can you tell me who does? That's right the focal marketing target range for most products/services, adults/families. When was the last time you saw parents or people over 30 spend more time on their computer than television?

Companies get most of their revenues from people 30+ and don't give two shits to teenagers as a viable market. What better place to advertise than the television, the medium in which adults, their target market, spend the most time on.

A problem with advertising on websites is namely applications like adblock. Without advertising the countries whole economy would slowly collapse. So without advertising you wouldn't even be able to watch those hockey programs on a TV or online because the network broadcasting the programme gets it's revenue from companies wanting to advertise on their network.

This is a very good point. Even if my family had a dozen computers, my parents would never watch anything on them, and I know a lot of other parents that are the same way.

I watch a lot of stuff on my computer, and I love the freedom I can have. I'd rather pay so much a month for internet than cable television, because it'd be a better use of my money. However, I watch a lot of TV. Why? Because when I watch stuff on my computer, I have to sit within inches of a tiny screen, in a not-too-comfortable chair. When I watch TV, I get to lay back on my bed and stretch my legs. Comfort is very important. I hate commercials, but I get around it by recording the shows (on a VCR, 'cause I'm old school like that) and watching them later, skipping the commercials as they come on.

Enough about my life, and onto the issue. While television isn't on its way out the door, it is suffering, thanks to the internet and widespread downloading and all that. (I suppose people could also be spending their time on other things, too. Video games, for instance, take up a lot of time in a lot of people's lives now, no longer being just for 12-year-olds or those without social lives.) I don't know if anything can even be done about this. Culture continuously moves on, regardless of how successful something has been in the past. In thirty or forty years, when the tech-savvy people of today are older, TV may not exist the way it does now. Since a lot of people are using the internet to watch things, TV stations may integrate with the internet. Perhaps when you turn on the TV, it'll connect to the internet, and a live feed of a show from a network's website. Who knows?

A lot of networks are already trying to appeal to the folks that prefer the internet over a TV. CBS, for example, lets you go onto its website and watch the latest episodes of their popular shows. While you're watching, ads come on when the show would normally go to commercial, and they are impossible to skip (as far as I know). This way, the network gets money from ad companies while hopefully deterring would-be pirates that would download the show because they dislike commercials or having to tune in at a certain time or whatever. That's the idea, at least.

TV wont die.Like how home phones are still used even though there are many handphones out there.

Its just not the same watching stuff on computer and on TV.

For me anyway. Sort of like watching a comedy online and on TV. A comedy online chances are you be watching it alone and laughing at it alone while on TV there could be a family member or friends watching it too and it be twice more funny.

I still watch a lot of shit on T.V, so I really wouldn't say that it's done. I mean sports for one thing are something I really don't think you stream on the internet.

My parents still watch it everyday and I usually put stuff on in the background when I'm doing ...Well anything by a T.V. Oh and don't even get me started on my roommates they leave the T.V on all day long if it wasn't for me that thing would never be off even if no one is in the apartment.

So I could never say that it's declined when most people I know even myself watch it every fucking day. Go History and Military channels!!!!