Let's Talk About: Internet Media

So after hearing an interesting theory on this weeks episode of Gamebreaker After Dark I got to thinking about the whole "internet media" sensation thats been popping up over the last few years and what this could mean for media in general. With things like Youtube, Twitch.tv, and Netflix, will there still be a place for companies like Directtv, Dish Network, and Time Warner in 5-10 years?

My answer to this is, "no, not really". I think that as more people start to watch stuff online, we will see a steady decline of regular television just because it's about 100x more convenient to watch things online. I think the biggest thing holding the internet media industry back is that there is no one platform for everything that's really gone "main stream" I think that Netflix is the one thing that's bridging the internet/ tv gap, but as crazy as this is, I think it needs to be something bigger. Something that encompasses literally everything. Something where you go to it and you can watch real world news, or a movie. Something that has a great user interface, that it really easy to navigate, that really just catches on, and people go "Hey, I like this, I'm going to use this for everything now." I also think that this currently unknown thing will happen eventually.

Until then we need pioneers that take the media format seriously, and really step and prove that this is a valid format that should be taken seriously. I showed a friend gamebreaker.tv like a week ago and he was blown away by the quality of it all. He could never really get into the whole "Internet media" thing because he figured that it was a bunch of people sitting around in their bedrooms playing video games. He had no idea that people are actually taking it seriously, at least in the video game community.

Anyway, yes to wrap it up, I think it's only a matter of time before internet media surpasses regualar television, I know that I for one already prefer it. All it's going to take it a shove in the right direction, and I think that that shove is in the process of happening right now.