2009/12/15 Ian Stirling <[email protected]>: > Mo McRoberts wrote: >> >> Discuss. > > TV is live simultaneous transmission of pictures,
I'm not sure "live" transmission is definitional; most TV isn't live, although it started off that way AIUI. > where you can have a large > number of people over a significant distance watching one event. I'm not sure broadcasting "events" is definitional. For me, TV is broadcast video, which is to say, TV is video that a mass audience watches simultaneously. To paraphrase McLuhan, as the medium of our time - computer networks - is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life, the way video is disseminated is changing. TV is still possible with the internet, but it is a very minor way for video to be published. Just as theatre is still going, but in a very minor way compared to the prominance it had because electric technology. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
