It's now confirmed: The Television is in Intensive Care

The television is dying, some say it is already dead. In yesterday's post there was mention of the the prospect of DVDs being displaced by download and streaming services, today the Beeb announced that they would start streaming BBC1 live on to the internet. This is not the first recently where the BBC has managed to stray into hot waters; the BBC iPlayer - the "watch later" service - has got it's fair share of attention with Internet Service Providers (ISP) whining how much bandwidth drain the iPlayer has caused lately. I think the iPlayer is a great service which allows you to watch progammes that you have missed on television.

ISPs should now brace themselves, and get a move on with upgading their networks; yesterday Apple announced full-length movie downloads via iTunes to iPods in the UK at competitive rates to DVD's. What next? Live stage performances on the Internet too?!

Currys stops selling analogue TVs

OK so this particular post (below) is not entirely about the pathfinder or e-learning but it interests me how technologies that existed for decades are being 'pushed-aside', and how this digital revolution which we're all going through at the moment is changing almost everything that our parents may have done. I think there will be at a point in the future where I'll be having a conversation with my new-born (who's only 4 weeks at the moment) that there were such things as Televisions which occupied a whole area in our living room. I bet he'll chuckle the way we do when we are told the computers as powerful as modern mobile phones used to take entire rooms! Where are we headed!!!! - [musings from a very humbled Mohamed]

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Parent company DSG International suffered poor sales at Christmas Currys, Dixons and PC World are to stop stocking analogue televisions and will instead promote "integrated" sets with built-in digital Freeview tuners.

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