"Sure my kid watches primetime TV. Only he doesn't watch it in prime time and he doesn't watch it on his TV"
When my daughter was five, we walked by a house on garbage day with an electric typewriter on the lawn ready to be thrown to the trash. She walked right up to it with a quizzical look on her face and turned to me with one hand in mine - and simply asked - what's that mommy?
Boy did i feel old.
And I guess that's how people feel when they start to debate about if people want Internet on their TV.
TV? What's that? Oh you mean that flat panel screen on our living room wall?
Richard Bullwinkle, chief evangelist at Rovi, says that an entire generation is going to have to stop watching TV before app enabled TV's cross the chasm. It's true that most people haven't really figured out how to get the wireless in their devices to synch and up and running.
But this isn't going to be a ten year proposition.
With the ubiquity of smartphones finally becoming a reality (more kids own a cell phone than a book), the always on pervasiveness of the network will finally have people realizing that their focus should no longer be device specific - because there won't be three screen strategies over at the cellular and cable companies anymore -
There is only one strategy:
- the single screen strategy -
Meaning whatever screen i happen to be looking at in any given moment - be it my cell phone, my book reader, my ipad, or that thing formerally known as the TV screen on my living room wall.
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