Media More and More Television Term Paper

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This is perhaps even more likely as the home system becomes larger and more realistic, as is seen in High Definition television, with larger screens to emulate the experience of watching a film in a theater. There will probably be competition between the two, with smaller films and films with certain types of content being more commonly accessed by hand-held devices, while the large-scale spectacle film will be more readily viewed on the larger screen system. As noted, delivery by computer is more a method than a defining feature, and delivery by this means will one day tie directly to the television set, allowing for greater flexibility as the consumer can order what he or she wants online and watch it immediately. This can be done today with most cable systems, but the system of the future will not be tied to a given system for such services.

Other regulatory issues will be fought over these new systems, as they have been over other systems in the past. Congress has been considering ways to protect children from material their parents do not want them to see, for instance, and this battle will be carried over to the new devices, a task that will become even more difficult when the material involved is sent anonymously to users who cannot be identified as to age. Laws will also be needed to protect content providers fro various forms of piracy and from the resale of the material they provide, though as past experience has shown, this is largely a losing proposition when dealing with a technology that has an infinite reach and few controls.


Developments are being made in this area every day, and new ideas for how to provide service are also being developed. It is likely that in the near-term, hand-held devices will be used most for content created just for this purpose, meaning short films with broad appeal to be sold to consumers for immediate viewing. The television networks have been dong just that with added short material from their hit shows, for instance, and these short films may create a demand for something more substantial. Such limited content has particular value to the consumer because watching a hand-held device is not that easy to do for a long period of time and because the experience with the i-Pod has accustomed people to wanting shorter pieces similar to the music they listen to on the MP3 devices......

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