Oh, they have the Internet on TV's now!

Last night, I was being a gobby prick as usual, blabbing on and on about one day TV would be broadcast from the Internet to save with all the that satellite dish nonsense. Complete ramble really, had no evidence to back it up. I just thought that it made sense.

So you can imagine my surprise when I stumble upon this little video



It's the fucking future, man! Internet on your TV. Turning your entire TV schedule over to you so you can only watch the programs you want to watch. Fantastic, yeah?!

Well, yes and no really. Yes, because you can just watch the programs you want whenever you want to. Meaning that you don't have to plan your life around the TV schedule. Something that I absolutely avoid doing and thus missing out on so-called 'Great TV'.

But no, because I think it's the randomness of the TV schedule that helps us discover new TV shows. I've found some great TV just by channel hopping through the sea of bollocks that is the digital TV listings. You can't tell me that seeing 'Giant Squid vs. Mega Shark' in the listings doesn't fill you with interest.

There is also the argument that great TV is spread via word-of-mouth. Which most of it is, but I get recommended so much TV everyday it's just impractical for me to make time for it. Because if I looked up '24' on Google TV and suddenly every episode is available right in front of me, that's my day gone straight there. I've seen the first episode so I must finish the series immediately. 18 hours of life given to Jack Bauer and his brooding demeanor (For the record, I have never seen '24'. I just assume he is brooding).

So although I think this is great for the consumer as it means we can watch the TV that suites us, at a time that suites us. But it may initially hurt the struggling TV networks that rely on channel hoppers to hop onto their channel. Yes, it may force networks to create more quality programs but if there isn't enough money to do that then it's probably goodbye to traditional low budget programming and hello to 'Jack Bauer's Torture Tips'.