http://www.dijitcommunity.com?src=blog_rss <p>Articles on Smart TV, Social TV, Connected TV, and the Future of TV in general.</p> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:00:14 GMT admin@dijitcommunity.com DijitCommunity 60 http://www.dijitcommunity.com/brand/dijit/community.gif http://www.dijitcommunity.com?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110261/Smart-TVs-have-a-serious-communication-problem/?src=blog_rss <img align="right" hspace="10" src="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/imagelib/contentitem/110261/39e706a46ad531be-38f86300-13ccd1a5e21--1a9-1783821491.jpg">Smart TVs are the new fashionable thing for popular TV-manufacturing companies to push on consumers. But we've still yet to see a really compelling, easy-to-use product trotted out-from CES or anywhere else. The more rounds that smart TVs go on the shelves at electronics expos, the more they seem to suffer from the same fundamental problem: a failure to communicate, or more appropriately, a failure to receive communication.<div><a href="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110261/Smart-TVs-have-a-serious-communication-problem/">[Read more]</div> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:12:18 GMT The Future of TV http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110261/Smart-TVs-have-a-serious-communication-problem/#discussion?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110261/Smart-TVs-have-a-serious-communication-problem/?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110260/Binge-Programming-How-Netflix-s-House-of-Cards-Changes-the-Game/?src=blog_rss <img align="right" hspace="10" src="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/imagelib/contentitem/110260/39e706a46ad531be-38f86300-13cb37e34cd--34051650219703.jpg">More than anything, the debut -- all 13 episodes -- of Netflix's &quot;House of Cards&quot; raises questions about what the binge viewing approach to programming will mean for TV as we know it. For those who haven't experienced binge viewing, it's what happens when you have an entire season of TV shows on DVDs or a streaming service and can watch as many episodes as you want.<div><a href="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110260/Binge-Programming-How-Netflix-s-House-of-Cards-Changes-the-Game/">[Read more]</div> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:09:07 GMT The Future of TV http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110260/Binge-Programming-How-Netflix-s-House-of-Cards-Changes-the-Game/#discussion?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110260/Binge-Programming-How-Netflix-s-House-of-Cards-Changes-the-Game/?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110257/The-TV-Business-A-Primer-For-The-Uninformed/?src=blog_rss <img align="right" hspace="10" src="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/imagelib/contentitem/110257/39e706a46ad531be-38f86300-13cae36242e--f2f1317850696.jpg">It's a relentless drumbeat: the TV industry is dead. It's just like the music industry. 20somethings are avoiding the cord. I want HBO a la carte. YouTube will kill cable. The TV industry is dead.<div><a href="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110257/The-TV-Business-A-Primer-For-The-Uninformed/">[Read more]</div> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:23:13 GMT The Future of TV http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110257/The-TV-Business-A-Primer-For-The-Uninformed/#discussion?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110257/The-TV-Business-A-Primer-For-The-Uninformed/?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110198/Prediction-Cord-Nevers-Become-Cord-Getters/?src=blog_rss <img align="right" hspace="10" src="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/imagelib/contentitem/110198/39e706a46ad531be--7b6a775e-13c6649e9d4--4c15-1419330428.jpg">As the phenomenon of predicting the death of TV via cord cutters is waning, it's being replaced by a plausible (at first) sounding theory: cord nevers. ?Whereas a cord cutter is one who cancels their Pay-TV service for free/streaming alternatives, a cord never is, roughly, a person under the age of 22 who, upon renting their first apartment after college, never subscribes for TV services in the first place. ?My theory at this point is these people may live happily cable-free for a year or few, but sooner or later, they'll pay.<div><a href="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110198/Prediction-Cord-Nevers-Become-Cord-Getters/">[Read more]</div> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:59:27 GMT The Future of TV http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110198/Prediction-Cord-Nevers-Become-Cord-Getters/#discussion?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110198/Prediction-Cord-Nevers-Become-Cord-Getters/?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110197/Why-TV-everywhere-will-kill-what-s-best-about-TV/?src=blog_rss <img align="right" hspace="10" src="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/imagelib/contentitem/110197/39e706a46ad531be--7b6a775e-13c6649e9d4--4c1e-1492526733.jpg">As the primary way of watching TV shifts from a traditional broadcast, linear, scheduled, single-device mode to one that is all on-demand, on all devices, available at any time, anywhere, the consumer's TV watching world is suddenly filled with a curse of choices. If everything we watch requires us to navigate menus, pick from lists, and choose, choose, choose - TV watching is in danger of losing its primary function: escapism.<div><a href="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110197/Why-TV-everywhere-will-kill-what-s-best-about-TV/">[Read more]</div> Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:49:47 GMT The Future of TV http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110197/Why-TV-everywhere-will-kill-what-s-best-about-TV/#discussion?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110197/Why-TV-everywhere-will-kill-what-s-best-about-TV/?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110196/Navigating-What-Intel-Did-And-Did-Not-Announce-About-TV-at-CES/?src=blog_rss <img align="right" hspace="10" src="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/imagelib/contentitem/110196/39e706a46ad531be--7b6a775e-13c6649e9d4--4c24173074371.jpg">I've been trying to complete an opinion piece about Intel and TV. Unfortunately, the news landscape keeps making right turns and I'm having to rewrite this as it does. Hopefully, I can bring a bit of clarity to the news of the last couple weeks and describe why Intel's virtual MSO plans are going to find a hard road ahead.<div><a href="http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110196/Navigating-What-Intel-Did-And-Did-Not-Announce-About-TV-at-CES/">[Read more]</div> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:21:43 GMT The Future of TV http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110196/Navigating-What-Intel-Did-And-Did-Not-Announce-About-TV-at-CES/#discussion?src=blog_rss http://www.dijitcommunity.com/blog/entry/110196/Navigating-What-Intel-Did-And-Did-Not-Announce-About-TV-at-CES/?src=blog_rss