Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Wk 9 EOC: Trends in TV

Today in what appears to only be the beginning of the digital age TV viewing trends differ from the past immensely. Households a couple decades ago had one television set with three channels available to them and today we have so many options to choose from on how to view television. “Growing internet connectivity, advent of smartphones and live streaming apps, social networking are fast transforming the TV experience.” We love our technology today and we always have some sort of device on us at all time, for some it’s just a cellphone/smartphone, others carry a cell, tablet, and laptop, so the option to have TV viewing apps on these devices wasn’t a bad idea. These alternatives that the millennial generation have embraced are slowly but surely killing cable. “The trend, then, is that younger consumers are increasingly likely to consume content on platforms besides television, and to use more other multimedia mobile devices while watching television.” It’s all about easy and fast access to content, young people choose what they want to watch and would like to access it immediately. The young generations today want instant gratification and this is seen through their TV viewing choices. Smart TV’s give us the ability to use TV viewing apps in place of the cable box that gives us thousands of channels.




 

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