Steve Gillmor says TV is dead

Wow. That’s quite a prediction, Steve. But I’m not buying it - just yet. In his latest blog, Steve claims “YouTube, Digg, and MySpace took out TV a few months back”. I don’t exactly agree, because unless we all get Media Center PCs, cheap broadband access for all as well as huge LCD displays, quite frankly I’ll stick with the tube.

Now I will admit that when my TiVo failed to record this week’s episode of Lost, I actually knew that I could go over to ABC.com’s new streaming media section and catch it at my leisure. But nothing quite beats watching TV in HD format on a large screen without all those annoying pixellations, stuttering audio, and annoying commercials that you can’t fast forward through.

But I will admit I dream of a day when TV will be dead. It is coming, and sooner than you think if providers don’t get too greedy. Dream on, Steve… I think you’re ahead of us all.

[tags]Gillmor, TV, Blog[/tags]