Television is a screen mode: a bit is just a bit, as time goes by

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The technologies which will shape TV in the near future are already in place. Yet despite the claims of futurologists there is no real appetite for change among the viewing public. Rather, people are learning to cope with the multichannel digital world that has been thrown at them. Bill Thompson explores…

Bill Thompson “Once television is just another sort of data transmitted over the Internet little of the existing industry will survive unchanged.” - Bill Thompson
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