TV no more?

An interesting article from friend Bill, talking about something I've been saying for awhile now:

http://broadcastengineering.com/news/most-tv-content-moving-web-within-two-years/index.html

The article says that the major TV networks and players will be distributing 75% of their content via the internet within 2 years. That is a bit faster than I have been predicting - I'm not sure everyone has the bandwidth capacity yet for that - but I would guess within 5 years we'll be there for sure. Every device that comes out now is network-capable, and most have applications built-in to play Netflix, Hulu, or just general web browsers where you can play anything.

The big takeaway from this article is the idea that we need to stop thinking about TV shows as TV shows, movies as movies, etc. and realize that in the future they are all in the category of "video content" and the internet is content-type-agnostic. This also solves SO many technology problems of the past, where we all had to have very specific hardware for TV broadcast formats, cable formats, satellite boxes, etc. and upgrading to a newer technology took years because it meant everyone had to get new hardware. Now that this is all software (mostly) in these devices that are basically all just computers on one scale or another, rolling out something like a new HD standard or a new company like Netflix or a new network providing content will be much more open and easy.

We've been "off the TV grid" (meaning only getting over-the-air and internet-delivered content) for over a year now and we're loving it - and saving about $90/month in the process.