Death Of The TV Box (& Maybe The Stereo Too)

Is the future of the TV set doomed? In the 23rd issue of the Phatgnat newsletter, I invited a young person to write about a conversation we had, regarding how most of her college friends don’t own a tv and use computers as their main source of entertainment:

And that’s the difference from our generation and previous ones. No one wants a telly anymore – the [British Television] license costs a fortune and 95% of programmes are lifetstyle shows like, ‘Selling My Dusty Crap At Auction’, ‘You Look Shit In That Shirt – Go And Lose Weight’, or the ever-popular ‘Come Round My House And Decorate It For Me Because I Don’t Know One End Of A Paintbrush From The Other’. And through our savings from Morrissons supermarket (8p for tin of beans, 19p for a big bag of pasta, and a whole other Aladdin’s Cave’s worth of Betta Buy goods), we have each managed to scrimp and save (with a little help from the parentals and the double-edged sword of the student loan) for a computer. A piece of machinery that we just can’t live without it seems!

Computers are allow this student and her friends to watch DVD’s, listen to their music, chat to their friends (virtually or through VOIP). And we can all do this too – and more importantly all at our pace.

So could we be seeing the death of the TV box (and maybe the stereo)?

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