I have oscillated between having a cable connection and disconnecting it all over last year. My primary objection to TV, besides the fact that most of the show are crap, is that there is no control over the experience. Fine – so you can record shows on DVRs , external or built-in, but I’m still being fed a stream of data that I don’t care about; And that rankles at a fundamental level.
TV in the form of force-fed signals and channel packages has served its purpose (zombifying entire generations) and there is no future for it. Last week my Tata Sky connection lapsed and I’ve taken the approx 400/ month and redirected it into more internet bandwidth. To make full use of this, Apple TV is going to be essential. Its going to allow me to stream stuff off my laptop / iPad onto the TV Screen.
And that is what it will boil down to. My TV is simply a monitor for media streams that I source independently. I wish the Xbox could do this better, as it already sits there like a big lump, but Windows Media Centre is quite honestly a piece of crap.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/09/think-small/
