I watch more TH-cam now than I do TV, prefer to spend the time I'm sat watching either learning or watching something interesting. TV mostly seems to be fake celebrity programs
@@jreg5890 Please go educate yourself, Firstly I don't pay for Netflix or Prime or any other subscription and there are no ads on what i watch so don't tell I'm paying and watching ads when I'm not. Have a nice day.
I agree - but that's easily mitigated by recording stuff and ff through the crap breaks. Often not so easy to do that with streaming content. We watch quite a lot of TV - but always record it to watch later.
I'm 53 and bought a Metaquest 3 the other day and I'm blown away with it. I'd only tried a VR Headset once before at Music Tech event (Synthfest UK) and got it to see how I can use it with Synthesizers, both Software and Hardware. Not a lot out there for it yet, but can see the potential in my niche'.
I'm 52. Was just talking to my Dad last month about cancelling my tv license. My tv (big 50" widescreen) broke years ago, and I haven't replaced it. I haven't watched tv in years, all of my viewing is Amazon Prime and TH-cam.
I remember when channel 5 came out with the gadget show, it was a brilliant breath of fresh air. Now instead of being restricted to watching it when I'm in the house, I can put on my nreal air glasses plugged into my phone, or listen to this as a podcast on the walk to work. There are easier ways to consume your favourite shows, but coming in and listening to those phat beats on the telly still warms my heart. I think I'm on the fence on this topic. For the record, I'm 42.
I think the biggest issue with tv series from America is there is too much filler episodes and adverts thrown in, so its annoying so you then want it quicker.
Streaming series or movies IS watching TV. The TV is what the picture & sound comes out of. Doesn't matter if the content is picked up via ariel, or through the internet.
Freeview and Freesat will probably be gone in 5 years or so imo. No more land based transmitters or satellite transmissions... Suzi and Jason still looking good in their mid 50's ! Where's Jon Bentley though ?!
I haven't watched broadcast TV since DVDs became readily and cheaply available online. Massive sales and movies for like £3 or something. Buying box sets of Due South or A Touch Of Frost etc. I cancelled the BBCTax 15+ years ago.
I think some people just like to sit down and watch what’s on. Rather than put DVDs on and scroll endlessly through streaming services. I know I like physical media. As well as broadcast. Just a shame that we are not seeing more channels in HD or 4K. Seems we are stuck with SD in 2024.
Even though some episodes of dramas/programmes are being released on a weekly basis, I would argue that MANY viewers are waiting until all episodes have been released and are still binging them - myself included.
Love you guys. And omg Gary Numan and the Human League. Awesome I’m with you dude. So glad I came across this. Take the gadget show back miss you it’s not the same now
Long content is still king for something you are really interested in. The crux is, short content is easy to pick up when you don't really know what you want and therefore it's easy to just binge it and we've become accustomed to it. I realised Tiktok wasn't good for my attention span post covid boom and deleted it.
The future of TV. I distinctly remember Chris Evans when he was on Radio 2 (that's how long ago it was), saying that he had been somewhere, China/Japan etc, and had visited a tech company and had been shown a hologram that in his words, was so real it looked like it was in the room. Can't believe that after all these years that hasn't been developed into something and released onto the market.
What is really interesting to me is that AR was one of the selling points of Nintendo's 3DS - and it was almost entirely ignored by developers on that platform... Nintendo really were ahead of the game there.
Jason's heros were probably Peter Molyneux, Gabe Newell, John Romero, Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima. Would his kids know them? I used to run home to see the A Team but now they queue up for Prime drinks, nothing really changes.
TV died years ago I grew up watching 90s TV shows like Gladiators, Live & Kicking, The Crystal Maze, Xena, Father Ted, Chucklevision, The Demon Headmaster, The Queen Nose. The 90s shows are undefeated. I even remember watching a show on CBBC presented by Ortis called "Short Change" probably was early 2000s though 😊
AI is making it very easy for people to make their own very short films and TV shows without filming anything, and it is just getting started. In twenty years time, people at home are going to be able to make films as long and as good as Hollywood without filming anything, they will just write the script and AI will do the rest.
Take AM radio. Or LW, or SW, or MW. To say that those radio formats are obsolete is an understatement. Yet somehow, they still exist. You'll find stations which still operate on the platforms, some exclusively. Against all logic, they remain an option and some people must still be listening. And I think that's the way in which traditional linear broadcast TV will go. In fact, we are already in that age to some extent. I believe that broadcast TV won't die completely, but its prominence will. It's curious as to what the definition of a TV set actually is, nowadays. I don't own a TV, but I own a laptop and a smartphone. They have screens. Screens ARE TV, right? I can watch TV on those devices. To foresee the future of TV, I believe that we have to redefine our perception of what TV actually is. The Gadget Show is no longer on TV. Yet here we are, watching new The Gadget Show content available to watch on a TV set, in both the traditional setup and alternative modern devices.
Live sport is the only linear content i watch, not streamed live content though. The OTA live broadcast delay exists but its far less than a streamed delay.
The conversation mixed up TV (as in the big display screen sitting in your house) and TV (as in the content you watch on it, traditionally linear broadcast but these days streaming, TH-cam, etc etc). The display tech is still evolving and, critically, getting bigger and cheaper. Screens over 100in are now being launched at surprisingly affordable prices. The only constraint is the size of your house! What we watch on these things is clearly changing. Big screens and streaming are clearly helping to kill off the cinema. My own TV spends more time displaying TH-cam than traditional TV content. It's hooked up to the Xbox quite a lot too. We don't have cable or satellite anymore.
0:41 I’ve still got my Plasma TV and it’s going strong. I use it with my Apple 4k tv box and my Xbox and it’s still sharp…. I can change it as I have an agreement with the wife that will make you giggle. So to get it many many years ago the wife said you can only upgrade it when it dies so like an idiot I agreed and spent an absolute fortune and got my tv… So all my family has 4k tv’s and looks stunning but my bloody tv won’t die. It’s like my wedding vowels I have to stick to my word. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Bloody tv DIE!!!!!!!!!
Tv has tons of adverts way longer than TH-cam. You can't skip them, you have to pay for a subscription that's double TH-cam premium and there's more of them. And at least TH-cam premium turns ads off lol. Normal tv you pay to just watch it and it's mostly crap
As much as I didn't like the way Google forced more and longer ads to make Premium more attractive, I resisted and got an ad blocker on my PC. But I tried a free trial for Premium and have never looked back. Easy, ad free on every device and TV. I watch YT way more than anything else and consider the charge worth it. And at least now I'm contributing to the creators.
@stealthzi7465 I used have pay for premium for the no ads and being able to use the mini player while screen is looked to listen to videos in background or youtube music when when screens locked amd phone is I'm my pocket. Honestly no point in paying for youtube premium when you can download "Brave Browser, been using g it for few months now and not a single advert and I can use the mini player while phone screen is locked and listen to my music in background 😎🙏🤟 should give it a go saves alot now that it's at £12.99 a month for premium I started of when I was a student only getting charged £3.90 believe ot was . Hope helps
Attention spans are 100 percent declining. Family members, friends started acting completely differently once iPhone became standard. I mean when you are talking to them, interacting with them.
To regurgitate the old Google slogan, streaming has taken TV from tens of channels of millions to millions of channels of ten. For me the main appeal of streaming is that online channels can do treatments of subjects in a lot more depth then TV ever could. Because of commercial TV channel economics, TV content on specialist areas has to retain at least some appeal to a non-specialist audience. That means it seldom (if ever) does more than superficial coverage and it has to keep the pictures really pretty. There has always been that contrast between BBC content and commercial TV content (watch a BBC documentary on a subject and then watch an equivalent Channel 5 cover of the same subject to see exactly what I mean) - but there is a similar difference between streamed content and BBC stuff. Attention span - dumbing down etc? Depends where you're looking. Streaming platforms carry an awful lot of facile dross, content which makes broadcast TV look positively cerebral - but if you want serious long-format treatments of specialist subjects - they are there to find. I frequent streaming channels like dronebot workshop and Rick Beato's excellent music channel - and those both treat their subjects in a depth and format that would be unthinkable for broadcast TV and - unlike a lot of streaming channels - they speak to their audiences like grown-ups.
TV has been dead for me since 2004. So this issue celebrates it's 20th anniversary for me. Social media videos are so much more interactive, where people can chat and leave comments, and is much more social than stone cold telly. TV is also mostly mind-numbing or doom and gloom, who needs it? TV Sucks!
My favourite streaming service at the moment is Apple TV precisely because there's a limited selection compared to Netflix and it feels much more like watching broadcast telly from 20+ years ago..
cant stand headsets... im only 38.. cough cough ... 😅what about new led projectors? thanks @ The Gadget Show loving the podcasts and keeping me sane! keep warm n dry all . love from cornwall uk
Thought the Gadget show had been cancelled years ago. Not watched Freeview TV since 2015 or had a TV licence. Remember when Suzi Perry did the Commentary for BBC Grand Prix coverage & Motor GP back in the 2010's & here she is still on the Gadget show on YT. Then the F1 went over to Channel 4 & then Sky got the Live Races. I must admit I much preferred Jake Humpries presenting the F1 coverage.
Great comments. I do still think AR/VR is a bit of a “wish” for most people until the cost vastly reduces. AR won’t become mainstream until it’s built into smartphones. In terms of TV, mainstream tv is dead, but also so is streaming to some degree, too many channels, too much cost to subscribe to them all so I think we will see some merge or fail in the next couple of years. Also, human league up close on Vision Pro, count me in!
I'll quite often watch ad free versions of TH-cam app content 1+hrs long - personally, I don't watch mainstream live TV im not interested in what they produce here in the UK for the most part. TV shows and films are great - and yes I will also watch the shorter clips too sometimes! different times I guess
I’ve lost my way a bit with PC hardware but always go in a look at the TV’s in say PC world. £8k TV’s the December next December are £4k, then they hit a £2k and before you know it that spec and same make and size is £800. Got to laugh as we only have a 32” that was about ten years old😢😂. I have always wanted something like a 89” 4k just sitting in its own TV room.
Nobody is going to send you one for free so you can put that to bed However just by a 30 pound projector from Amazon And it will change your life Doesn't have to be a white wall it could be a cream wall In your front room but it will change your life. Their is 16 and 32K in Japan we could go on and on and on I told my relative 15 years ago about 8K he told me he will not watch any of the reconditioned Blu-ray Bond movies until he gets a 4k tv Well they're on at the Imax in London in 8k every month or so, I just bought him a HD 1080 projector 50 quid and he's very happy with that, the Cheapest 4K projector is around £200 Every kid at my son's school 99% of them have projectors in their bedroom. TV to them is like The old black and white Portable television your mum would have in the kitchen Or if you were very lucky the one she would pass on to you to place in your bedroom as long as you didn't watch channel 4 late at night with the triangle on the screen OR Perhaps the old wireless or transistor radio that our grandmas used to have and listen to round the Horn on` When you went round to visit. Buy a projector It'll give you 100 inches on the wall others will give you 150 -200 inches ,set it in a spare room with a couple of chairs trust me it'll change your life You're feel you're at the cinema foget what your mates have got Technologies changing so fast Here in the twenty twenties it'll be archaic in a month
Both of you, I thought of this last year how technology has changed and how the next generations will cope with TV viewing. A lot to think about now…. Yes the future of tv viewing is changing that’s why the tv licence went up because they are struggling
Suzy said binge watching makes you forget what has happened in a previous episode? You've only just watched that episode? Now, waiting a week to watch the next episode, you will definitely have forgotten what happened in the previous weeks episode.
The observations about short form video content is right. But, in order to actually learn something substantial, short form video content just doesn't cut it. So there's a disparity between short bite sized pieces of 'entertainment', and anything more detailed, that requires attention and focus. I've noticed recently a different trend amongst YT channels. Vloggers that routinely post content, usually 10-20 mins or so, whilst travelling through a particular country lets say, are, at the end of that series, editing together all of that series into one 2-3 hour long video, AND they are getting views, myself included. Time will tell what the long term effects are on the TikTok generation. I saw it recently in my nephew (13) and niece (10) face down, watching their smart phones constantly, watching nothing in particular, swipe, view, swipe, view, and learning absolutely nothing in the process. When I asked my niece if she watched anything specific, she was following over 300 channels, but of nothing in particular.
You know how people go to the gym to get a better body and some go a little bit further and want to be leaner again with more muscle but fast forward, some get super massive and freaky looking, I think the 8k maybe be the latter, very impressive but too far gone
TH-cam is full of watchalongs.....trying to time a film on dvd and watch the film together. I see vr changing all this...a watchalong in vr sitting with your mates and experiencing together. It's just a great way to watch and I view my 3d films this way now with no dark active lens glasses. A shame for cinema though of course. The future can be exciting. Excelsior
VR and AR will get better, with better headsets and lenses etc. Once content providers have some imagination and forward thinking it will happen, its inevitable. It wont take over the TV or our lives for a long time, but cannot thinknof a future where will be keeping a big large screen TV.
We stopped watching Terrestrial TV about 6 years ago, we use an old Apple box to watch TH-cam and Amazon Prime. I have learnt more stuff watching you tube for the last few years than 50 years of watching TV. All the best stuff has gone off the tele. And as for adverts……….at least I can skip most adverts on TH-cam, all though that’s becoming harder. I’m only going back to terrestrial if we can take the whole world back to 1982 again.
I agree that a lot of people's attention span is shortening with the likes of tiktoc but I do think we are seeing a return to longer form content in some places. There's a hunger for podcasts like never before, most of which are an hour plus, some that I listen to even run up to 4 hours. Even here on TH-cam I'm seeing more and more creators making feature length films / videos, maybe these will be their "specials" but the audience is there. It's obviously platform dependent. I do wonder if these longer formats is driven by the gen x and millennials, the middle generations if you will. Are the younger generations consuming this content? I honestly don't know but I doubt it.
It’s true it’s a generation thing and that is where the divide will always be both in audience and revenue At my age it is TV for films etc but TH-cam is iPad etc and would never think of watching an immersive film via a headset regardless of how good it is as it’s simply not a shared experience. It’s insular and there is no way of sharing the experience with your partner .
The only reason to play episodes weekly is to keep subscriptions rolling in. Your right kids and tick tok is ruining TV I'm was a tv engineer for 35 years I saw the writing 9n the wall for conventional tv 10 or more years ago.
The only Live TV I watch these days is sports, which is annoying as this is classed livestream broadcasting meaning I have to pay a £15 TV licence even though I don't watch the BBC, ITV etc, and that's on top of what I pay for Sky Sports, TNT etc.
I can't believe HD, 2k, 4k, 8k are even being created. There is no content to watch. Most live TV is either standard or compressed HD. All uhd is behind ever increasing pay walls. Atmos is all pay extra. Even the standard definition is ultra compressed on free TV.
The attention span IS there… if you’re watching good quality entertainment. There are loads of great long form documentaries on TH-cam and beyond. This short form TikTok stuff is dopamine fuelled instant gratification hit that can fill five minutes of your time so you can move on quickly.
Weekly TV sucks! I want to watch in gluts, several episodes a night so I can get through a series in a couple of days. I just don't watch the weekly stuff now, I wait until the whole lot are available then stream. We have choice now, we don't need to be tied to the broadcasters schedules and I refuse to be.
Im watching this on You Tube using a 13inch iPad Pro m4 and if I lift it up and put it between me and the tv it’s equivalent to watching an eighty inch tv but better quality picture.
Well terrestrial TV is dying. I hardly ever watch it. However, I’m still watching TH-cam and Netflix on my TV. In fact I’m watching this on TV. I will always watch movies on a large TV. I think VR has as much chance in replacing TVs as 3D did with replacing 2D. As for low attention spans, people are still listening and watching 3 hour podcasts.
It's stupid really because If I put 2 HD TV's in a open fronted tent in the middle of a city centre shopping pricinct and the TV's were identical models, size and make then stuck a small label in the top corner of each one saying 4k & 8k on them respectfully. I guarentee most people would choose the 8k one just because of the sticker 😊 and you would get loads of people choosing 4k just because they like to act differently and go against the norm!! it is possible you might get at least one person who might say I can't really see a difference 😊
I watch my Xiaomi Pad 6 tablet much more now than now than my TV. First I can watch what I want to watch, when I want and without disturbing other people in my household but also because the screen technology is so much better for the price point. I would have to get OLED to be better but my family budget just can't stretch to that. If OLED ever gets to £500 then that's different. The motion clarity on my tablet is just so much better than my mid range LG 4K TV. I honestly can't watch the TV for sports anymore.
What killed tv is the quality of it all , the fact youtube channels are now better to watch due to youtube channels becoming better quality due to cheaper tech and better editing software for these channels and finally streaming , streaming was a good thing years ago but now everybody wants to have their own , paramount disney , HBO ( US only I think ) is now those shows are no longer on mainstream channels or the channels they were on like fox tv dont exist, I used to love skyone had some great shows but thats been watered down by sky placing all the HBO on sky atlantic which limits people or now tv but people are beginning to be fed up paying for all these different services so now people resort to dodgy sticks or not watching anything now but youtube like me
I don't think we will see much innovation in screen technology in the coming years. 8K TVs have been on the market for the best part of a decade and they haven't been embraced. What is telling is how little content is available in that resolution. Regarding broadcasters and over the air linear TV. I can see in the next decade the amount of channels available on in the UK Freeview shrinking down to single digits.
Last time I watched the gadget show I was still being breast fed by my mother So it's strange to see them on youtube Where they can make a fair amount of money if they took the time to build a good podcast I think the word gadget show is probably owned by Channel 5 TV is dead I can even watch live bbc From America streamed With a 15 second delay into my living room In old blightly
Depends on how old you are.......elderly ....children....you will find the hole being bettween 14-30 will be phone freaks.....get a tablet...so people can't call you
TVs as objects, yes, absolutely they still exist. High end TVs yes. Now for TV content itself terrestrial TV is dead. The TV license is a joke, outdated and ridiculous. I do not watch live TV and removed the BBC from my devices. Interactive headsets, hmm, will it be a thing, sure. Would I watch Slow Horses through a headset. No. What purpose would it serve. But there will be content created specifically for watching in a headset but will ALL content become like that. I very much doubt it.
No. Far from it. The content itself/ways of accessing/streaming is changing but nothing beats a big OLED set with surround sound system to view/hear stuff.
The rise in diagnosed ADHD and the introduction of Tik Tok… not a coincidence. Then when said guinea pigs move into real life then that’s when the anxiety and depression hits.
Are movies dying? Why have a glitzy premier and hype it up in the media for a movie that's an hour and a half? Most people would prefer to watch a series that's 10 hours long and it's a better story
I watch more TH-cam now than I do TV, prefer to spend the time I'm sat watching either learning or watching something interesting. TV mostly seems to be fake celebrity programs
For me TV is dead, I still watch shows and films online but never watch TV anymore. To many ads
The content is so meh ugh, that’s the main issue, disinterested
The ads are already here with online streaming content, Netflix and Prime, and you are still paying a subscription to avoid ads
@@jreg5890 Please go educate yourself, Firstly I don't pay for Netflix or Prime or any other subscription and there are no ads on what i watch so don't tell I'm paying and watching ads when I'm not. Have a nice day.
I agree - but that's easily mitigated by recording stuff and ff through the crap breaks. Often not so easy to do that with streaming content. We watch quite a lot of TV - but always record it to watch later.
I honestly didn’t know if The Gadget Show still existed as I haven’t used “Live TV” since Summer 2017.
I miss old school Gadget Show
It's crazy that we use to get more entertainment from 5 tv channels than all these 100s on freeview.
I'm 53 and bought a Metaquest 3 the other day and I'm blown away with it. I'd only tried a VR Headset once before at Music Tech event (Synthfest UK) and got it to see how I can use it with Synthesizers, both Software and Hardware. Not a lot out there for it yet, but can see the potential in my niche'.
How fabulous to see you both back on screen - found you by accident, and then subscribed immediately!
I can't wait for the next vid
I'm 52. Was just talking to my Dad last month about cancelling my tv license. My tv (big 50" widescreen) broke years ago, and I haven't replaced it.
I haven't watched tv in years, all of my viewing is Amazon Prime and TH-cam.
talking about 80's i just brought the new retro spectrum. going back 40 years :)
I remember when channel 5 came out with the gadget show, it was a brilliant breath of fresh air. Now instead of being restricted to watching it when I'm in the house, I can put on my nreal air glasses plugged into my phone, or listen to this as a podcast on the walk to work. There are easier ways to consume your favourite shows, but coming in and listening to those phat beats on the telly still warms my heart. I think I'm on the fence on this topic. For the record, I'm 42.
I think the biggest issue with tv series from America is there is too much filler episodes and adverts thrown in, so its annoying so you then want it quicker.
Streaming series or movies IS watching TV. The TV is what the picture & sound comes out of. Doesn't matter if the content is picked up via ariel, or through the internet.
Freeview and Freesat will probably be gone in 5 years or so imo. No more land based transmitters or satellite transmissions... Suzi and Jason still looking good in their mid 50's ! Where's Jon Bentley though ?!
I haven't watched broadcast TV since DVDs became readily and cheaply available online.
Massive sales and movies for like £3 or something.
Buying box sets of Due South or A Touch Of Frost etc.
I cancelled the BBCTax 15+ years ago.
I think some people just like to sit down and watch what’s on. Rather than put DVDs on and scroll endlessly through streaming services. I know I like physical media. As well as broadcast. Just a shame that we are not seeing more channels in HD or 4K. Seems we are stuck with SD in 2024.
Build a home cinema and watch what I want when i want how I want
Even though some episodes of dramas/programmes are being released on a weekly basis, I would argue that MANY viewers are waiting until all episodes have been released and are still binging them - myself included.
Waht's the point in that? Short attention span?
Love you guys. And omg Gary Numan and the Human League. Awesome I’m with you dude. So glad I came across this. Take the gadget show back miss you it’s not the same now
Long content is still king for something you are really interested in. The crux is, short content is easy to pick up when you don't really know what you want and therefore it's easy to just binge it and we've become accustomed to it. I realised Tiktok wasn't good for my attention span post covid boom and deleted it.
The future of TV. I distinctly remember Chris Evans when he was on Radio 2 (that's how long ago it was), saying that he had been somewhere, China/Japan etc, and had visited a tech company and had been shown a hologram that in his words, was so real it looked like it was in the room. Can't believe that after all these years that hasn't been developed into something and released onto the market.
What is really interesting to me is that AR was one of the selling points of Nintendo's 3DS - and it was almost entirely ignored by developers on that platform... Nintendo really were ahead of the game there.
I stopped watching live tv in December 2019.. Stream only now. And I save over £150 from not having a tv licence..
Having a tv doesn't mean you need a tv license. I haven't payed for years as I don't watch live tv.
@ Yes that is true..
I’m a 65 year old man and the BBC ended TV for me, I mostly watch what I want on TH-cam now or Amazon prime.
Jason's heros were probably Peter Molyneux, Gabe Newell, John Romero, Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima. Would his kids know them? I used to run home to see the A Team but now they queue up for Prime drinks, nothing really changes.
TV died years ago I grew up watching 90s TV shows like Gladiators, Live & Kicking, The Crystal Maze, Xena, Father Ted, Chucklevision, The Demon Headmaster, The Queen Nose. The 90s shows are undefeated. I even remember watching a show on CBBC presented by Ortis called "Short Change" probably was early 2000s though 😊
AI is making it very easy for people to make their own very short films and TV shows without filming anything, and it is just getting started. In twenty years time, people at home are going to be able to make films as long and as good as Hollywood without filming anything, they will just write the script and AI will do the rest.
Take AM radio. Or LW, or SW, or MW. To say that those radio formats are obsolete is an understatement. Yet somehow, they still exist. You'll find stations which still operate on the platforms, some exclusively. Against all logic, they remain an option and some people must still be listening. And I think that's the way in which traditional linear broadcast TV will go. In fact, we are already in that age to some extent. I believe that broadcast TV won't die completely, but its prominence will. It's curious as to what the definition of a TV set actually is, nowadays. I don't own a TV, but I own a laptop and a smartphone. They have screens. Screens ARE TV, right? I can watch TV on those devices. To foresee the future of TV, I believe that we have to redefine our perception of what TV actually is. The Gadget Show is no longer on TV. Yet here we are, watching new The Gadget Show content available to watch on a TV set, in both the traditional setup and alternative modern devices.
Very interesting conversation 👍
Live sport is the only linear content i watch, not streamed live content though. The OTA live broadcast delay exists but its far less than a streamed delay.
TV has totally changed in last 20 to 30 years.
The conversation mixed up TV (as in the big display screen sitting in your house) and TV (as in the content you watch on it, traditionally linear broadcast but these days streaming, TH-cam, etc etc).
The display tech is still evolving and, critically, getting bigger and cheaper. Screens over 100in are now being launched at surprisingly affordable prices. The only constraint is the size of your house!
What we watch on these things is clearly changing. Big screens and streaming are clearly helping to kill off the cinema. My own TV spends more time displaying TH-cam than traditional TV content. It's hooked up to the Xbox quite a lot too. We don't have cable or satellite anymore.
0:41 I’ve still got my Plasma TV and it’s going strong. I use it with my Apple 4k tv box and my Xbox and it’s still sharp….
I can change it as I have an agreement with the wife that will make you giggle.
So to get it many many years ago the wife said you can only upgrade it when it dies so like an idiot I agreed and spent an absolute fortune and got my tv…
So all my family has 4k tv’s and looks stunning but my bloody tv won’t die. It’s like my wedding vowels I have to stick to my word. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bloody tv DIE!!!!!!!!!
Plasma is still great for SD content. But honestly with today's TV's once in a decent picture mode, they look outstanding.
Only use the TV these days for watching 4k movies, You Tube and gaming.
Tv has tons of adverts way longer than TH-cam. You can't skip them, you have to pay for a subscription that's double TH-cam premium and there's more of them. And at least TH-cam premium turns ads off lol. Normal tv you pay to just watch it and it's mostly crap
As much as I didn't like the way Google forced more and longer ads to make Premium more attractive, I resisted and got an ad blocker on my PC. But I tried a free trial for Premium and have never looked back. Easy, ad free on every device and TV.
I watch YT way more than anything else and consider the charge worth it. And at least now I'm contributing to the creators.
@stealthzi7465
I used have pay for premium for the no ads and being able to use the mini player while screen is looked to listen to videos in background or youtube music when when screens locked amd phone is I'm my pocket.
Honestly no point in paying for youtube premium when you can download "Brave Browser, been using g it for few months now and not a single advert and I can use the mini player while phone screen is locked and listen to my music in background 😎🙏🤟 should give it a go saves alot now that it's at £12.99 a month for premium I started of when I was a student only getting charged £3.90 believe ot was . Hope helps
Attention spans are not reducing. It's just there's more there to distract us.
Attention spans are 100 percent declining. Family members, friends started acting completely differently once iPhone became standard. I mean when you are talking to them, interacting with them.
@@curiositytax9360 Go and read some articles and by that I mean journal articles by academics, not Internet stuff.
I never watched TV for 20 years only watched video/DVDs box sets, then last 10-15 years streaming services and TH-cam
I'd be very keen to experience a VR seat in the Vegas Sphere. I'm not likely to get there, so that would good experience.
A TV is now just a propaganda device that you have to pay for
My TV was gathering dust in the corner so I hoofed it out. Don't need it and I no longer need a license!
To regurgitate the old Google slogan, streaming has taken TV from tens of channels of millions to millions of channels of ten.
For me the main appeal of streaming is that online channels can do treatments of subjects in a lot more depth then TV ever could. Because of commercial TV channel economics, TV content on specialist areas has to retain at least some appeal to a non-specialist audience. That means it seldom (if ever) does more than superficial coverage and it has to keep the pictures really pretty. There has always been that contrast between BBC content and commercial TV content (watch a BBC documentary on a subject and then watch an equivalent Channel 5 cover of the same subject to see exactly what I mean) - but there is a similar difference between streamed content and BBC stuff.
Attention span - dumbing down etc? Depends where you're looking. Streaming platforms carry an awful lot of facile dross, content which makes broadcast TV look positively cerebral - but if you want serious long-format treatments of specialist subjects - they are there to find. I frequent streaming channels like dronebot workshop and Rick Beato's excellent music channel - and those both treat their subjects in a depth and format that would be unthinkable for broadcast TV and - unlike a lot of streaming channels - they speak to their audiences like grown-ups.
TV has been dead for me since 2004. So this issue celebrates it's 20th anniversary for me.
Social media videos are so much more interactive, where people can chat and leave comments, and is much more social than stone cold telly.
TV is also mostly mind-numbing or doom and gloom, who needs it? TV Sucks!
Tech wise - Higher framerate is where things will become even more realistic.
The only thing I now watch on live TV is the snooker
i used to watching the gadget show even starting with the first one
My favourite streaming service at the moment is Apple TV precisely because there's a limited selection compared to Netflix and it feels much more like watching broadcast telly from 20+ years ago..
TH-cam is becoming TV for everyone !!!!😂😂😂
Immersive devices are great, but you don't want to watch in a solitary manner which is why the meta version exist. It needs to be a social thing
cant stand headsets... im only 38.. cough cough ... 😅what about new led projectors? thanks @
The Gadget Show loving the podcasts and keeping me sane! keep warm n dry all . love from cornwall uk
Thought the Gadget show had been cancelled years ago. Not watched Freeview TV since 2015 or had a TV licence. Remember when Suzi Perry did the Commentary for BBC Grand Prix coverage & Motor GP back in the 2010's & here she is still on the Gadget show on YT. Then the F1 went over to Channel 4 & then Sky got the Live Races. I must admit I much preferred Jake Humpries presenting the F1 coverage.
Great comments. I do still think AR/VR is a bit of a “wish” for most people until the cost vastly reduces. AR won’t become mainstream until it’s built into smartphones. In terms of TV, mainstream tv is dead, but also so is streaming to some degree, too many channels, too much cost to subscribe to them all so I think we will see some merge or fail in the next couple of years.
Also, human league up close on Vision Pro, count me in!
If ever there was pointless technology, it's domestic 8k TV. It's big tech's idea of the next big upgrade. They need to think harder. 😅
I'll quite often watch ad free versions of TH-cam app content 1+hrs long - personally, I don't watch mainstream live TV im not interested in what they produce here in the UK for the most part. TV shows and films are great - and yes I will also watch the shorter clips too sometimes! different times I guess
I watch more Physical movies than anything.
Next to that TH-cam .
I refuse to pay for streaming services, I do love the gadget show .👌👌👌
I’ve lost my way a bit with PC hardware but always go in a look at the TV’s in say PC world. £8k TV’s the December next December are £4k, then they hit a £2k and before you know it that spec and same make and size is £800. Got to laugh as we only have a 32” that was about ten years old😢😂. I have always wanted something like a 89” 4k just sitting in its own TV room.
Nobody is going to send you one for free so you can put that to bed
However just by a 30 pound projector from Amazon And it will change your life Doesn't have to be a white wall it could be a cream wall In your front room but it will change your life.
Their is 16 and 32K in Japan we could go on and on and on I told my relative 15 years ago about 8K he told me he will not watch any of the reconditioned Blu-ray Bond movies until he gets a 4k tv Well they're on at the Imax in London in 8k every month or so, I just bought him a HD 1080 projector 50 quid and he's very happy with that, the Cheapest 4K projector is around £200
Every kid at my son's school 99% of them have projectors in their bedroom.
TV to them is like The old black and white Portable television your mum would have in the kitchen Or if you were very lucky the one she would pass on to you to place in your bedroom as long as you didn't watch channel 4 late at night with the triangle on the screen OR Perhaps the old wireless or transistor radio that our grandmas used to have and listen to round the Horn on` When you went round to visit.
Buy a projector It'll give you 100 inches on the wall others will give you 150 -200 inches ,set it in a spare room with a couple of chairs trust me it'll change your life
You're feel you're at the cinema
foget what your mates have got Technologies changing so fast Here in the twenty twenties it'll be archaic in a month
With the exception of TV on the internet, such as the BBC, I have not watched TV at home in twelve years. I use my big flat screen as PC monitor.
Both of you, I thought of this last year how technology has changed and how the next generations will cope with TV viewing.
A lot to think about now…. Yes the future of tv viewing is changing that’s why the tv licence went up because they are struggling
TV tied when the PSBs were incapable of broadcasting UHD via terrestrial
But you still watch streaming and TH-cam through a telly - the things thats changing is the concept of 'CONTENT' the scourge of entertainment.
Suzy said binge watching makes you forget what has happened in a previous episode? You've only just watched that episode? Now, waiting a week to watch the next episode, you will definitely have forgotten what happened in the previous weeks episode.
She's getting old so she cant remember everything unless its written down on a script for her..
The observations about short form video content is right. But, in order to actually learn something substantial, short form video content just doesn't cut it. So there's a disparity between short bite sized pieces of 'entertainment', and anything more detailed, that requires attention and focus.
I've noticed recently a different trend amongst YT channels. Vloggers that routinely post content, usually 10-20 mins or so, whilst travelling through a particular country lets say, are, at the end of that series, editing together all of that series into one 2-3 hour long video, AND they are getting views, myself included.
Time will tell what the long term effects are on the TikTok generation. I saw it recently in my nephew (13) and niece (10) face down, watching their smart phones constantly, watching nothing in particular, swipe, view, swipe, view, and learning absolutely nothing in the process. When I asked my niece if she watched anything specific, she was following over 300 channels, but of nothing in particular.
You know how people go to the gym to get a better body and some go a little bit further and want to be leaner again with more muscle but fast forward, some get super massive and freaky looking, I think the 8k maybe be the latter, very impressive but too far gone
4k movies on physical media only here guys
Try raising the volume - it's a simple gadget, it goes up and down!
TH-cam is full of watchalongs.....trying to time a film on dvd and watch the film together. I see vr changing all this...a watchalong in vr sitting with your mates and experiencing together. It's just a great way to watch and I view my 3d films this way now with no dark active lens glasses. A shame for cinema though of course. The future can be exciting. Excelsior
TV is dead. This youtube video currently has 11,000 views which a bigger audience than the gadget show has ever had on television
Are Jason and Suzi back on the Gadget show?
Thats gone now, they changed it into a crappy lets save you money consumer electronics show
Everyone wanted big TVs with the best picture and people seem to spend more time watching a TikTok video on a 6.5" phone screen
VR and AR will get better, with better headsets and lenses etc. Once content providers have some imagination and forward thinking it will happen, its inevitable. It wont take over the TV or our lives for a long time, but cannot thinknof a future where will be keeping a big large screen TV.
We stopped watching Terrestrial TV about 6 years ago, we use an old Apple box to watch TH-cam and Amazon Prime. I have learnt more stuff watching you tube for the last few years than 50 years of watching TV. All the best stuff has gone off the tele. And as for adverts……….at least I can skip most adverts on TH-cam, all though that’s becoming harder. I’m only going back to terrestrial if we can take the whole world back to 1982 again.
I agree that a lot of people's attention span is shortening with the likes of tiktoc but I do think we are seeing a return to longer form content in some places. There's a hunger for podcasts like never before, most of which are an hour plus, some that I listen to even run up to 4 hours. Even here on TH-cam I'm seeing more and more creators making feature length films / videos, maybe these will be their "specials" but the audience is there. It's obviously platform dependent. I do wonder if these longer formats is driven by the gen x and millennials, the middle generations if you will. Are the younger generations consuming this content? I honestly don't know but I doubt it.
Normal TV is such poor quality now, it's cringe inducing, Corrie, Emmerdale, EastEnders and Hollyoaks every single day, it's bile.
Propaganda is rife on terrestrial TV. Unplugged from that format almost 10 years ago.
Propaganda is also rife, even more so, on youtube. And social media. 👍
It’s true it’s a generation thing and that is where the divide will always be both in audience and revenue
At my age it is TV for films etc but TH-cam is iPad etc and would never think of watching an immersive film via a headset regardless of how good it is as it’s simply not a shared experience. It’s insular and there is no way of sharing the experience with your partner .
The demograph for vr adoption is a lot older than you expect eleven table tennis real vr fishing attracts an older clientele.
The only reason to play episodes weekly is to keep subscriptions rolling in. Your right kids and tick tok is ruining TV I'm was a tv engineer for 35 years I saw the writing 9n the wall for conventional tv 10 or more years ago.
Don’t have a tv not for the last 4plus years youtube for me is where it’s at.
The only Live TV I watch these days is sports, which is annoying as this is classed livestream broadcasting meaning I have to pay a £15 TV licence even though I don't watch the BBC, ITV etc, and that's on top of what I pay for Sky Sports, TNT etc.
I can't believe HD, 2k, 4k, 8k are even being created. There is no content to watch. Most live TV is either standard or compressed HD. All uhd is behind ever increasing pay walls. Atmos is all pay extra. Even the standard definition is ultra compressed on free TV.
The attention span IS there… if you’re watching good quality entertainment. There are loads of great long form documentaries on TH-cam and beyond. This short form TikTok stuff is dopamine fuelled instant gratification hit that can fill five minutes of your time so you can move on quickly.
Weekly TV sucks! I want to watch in gluts, several episodes a night so I can get through a series in a couple of days. I just don't watch the weekly stuff now, I wait until the whole lot are available then stream. We have choice now, we don't need to be tied to the broadcasters schedules and I refuse to be.
Im watching this on You Tube using a 13inch iPad Pro m4 and if I lift it up and put it between me and the tv it’s equivalent to watching an eighty inch tv but better quality picture.
Does anyone remember 3d TV’s
I do Along with the Horseless carriage !
They didn’t take on just a gimmick not enough people were interested in them to be successful
Well terrestrial TV is dying. I hardly ever watch it.
However, I’m still watching TH-cam and Netflix on my TV. In fact I’m watching this on TV. I will always watch movies on a large TV. I think VR has as much chance in replacing TVs as 3D did with replacing 2D.
As for low attention spans, people are still listening and watching 3 hour podcasts.
I only ever watch TV for sport or an occasional movie,everything i do and watch is on TH-cam
But what do you watch it on?
It's stupid really because If I put 2 HD TV's in a open fronted tent in the middle of a city centre shopping pricinct and the TV's were identical models, size and make then stuck a small label in the top corner of each one saying 4k & 8k on them respectfully. I guarentee most people would choose the 8k one just because of the sticker 😊 and you would get loads of people choosing 4k just because they like to act differently and go against the norm!! it is possible you might get at least one person who might say I can't really see a difference 😊
Singing "internet killed the video star"
Depechee mode 😂😂😂
I watch my Xiaomi Pad 6 tablet much more now than now than my TV. First I can watch what I want to watch, when I want and without disturbing other people in my household but also because the screen technology is so much better for the price point. I would have to get OLED to be better but my family budget just can't stretch to that. If OLED ever gets to £500 then that's different. The motion clarity on my tablet is just so much better than my mid range LG 4K TV. I honestly can't watch the TV for sports anymore.
What killed tv is the quality of it all , the fact youtube channels are now better to watch due to youtube channels becoming better quality due to cheaper tech and better editing software for these channels and finally streaming , streaming was a good thing years ago but now everybody wants to have their own , paramount disney , HBO ( US only I think ) is now those shows are no longer on mainstream channels or the channels they were on like fox tv dont exist, I used to love skyone had some great shows but thats been watered down by sky placing all the HBO on sky atlantic which limits people or now tv but people are beginning to be fed up paying for all these different services so now people resort to dodgy sticks or not watching anything now but youtube like me
I don't think we will see much innovation in screen technology in the coming years. 8K TVs have been on the market for the best part of a decade and they haven't been embraced. What is telling is how little content is available in that resolution.
Regarding broadcasters and over the air linear TV. I can see in the next decade the amount of channels available on in the UK Freeview shrinking down to single digits.
Absolutely correct tv today is 90% rubbish
Last time I watched the gadget show I was still being breast fed by my mother So it's strange to see them on youtube Where they can make a fair amount of money if they took the time to build a good podcast I think the word gadget show is probably owned by Channel 5 TV is dead I can even watch live bbc From America streamed With a 15 second delay into my living room In old blightly
I use tv to play console games and watch netflix. So I'll always need a t.v. nothing beats a 77 inch oled.
I only watch TH-cam with some Netflix
Now I watch more Suzi Perry as she still gorgeous 😍
Depends on how old you are.......elderly ....children....you will find the hole being bettween 14-30 will be phone freaks.....get a tablet...so people can't call you
TVs as objects, yes, absolutely they still exist. High end TVs yes. Now for TV content itself terrestrial TV is dead. The TV license is a joke, outdated and ridiculous. I do not watch live TV and removed the BBC from my devices.
Interactive headsets, hmm, will it be a thing, sure. Would I watch Slow Horses through a headset. No. What purpose would it serve. But there will be content created specifically for watching in a headset but will ALL content become like that. I very much doubt it.
why are you saying soccer match?
No. Far from it.
The content itself/ways of accessing/streaming is changing but nothing beats a big OLED set with surround sound system to view/hear stuff.
I’m watching this on a iPhone… and watching dune prophecy on my 15” 4K laptop. I haven’t turned on my tv in ages.
The rise in diagnosed ADHD and the introduction of Tik Tok… not a coincidence. Then when said guinea pigs move into real life then that’s when the anxiety and depression hits.
joe rogan is the biggest podcaster in the world and he does about 2 hrs per podcast and the young men love them.
Are movies dying? Why have a glitzy premier and hype it up in the media for a movie that's an hour and a half? Most people would prefer to watch a series that's 10 hours long and it's a better story
I only have skyTV for the f1, if I could stream direct off F1 I would leave sky and terrestrial TV.