Reuters Finally Notices TV on Internet Trend
Those folks at Reuters sure are perceptive:
The widely hyped merging of the PC and TV is finally taking shape in a way that only a few people imagined in the late 1990s Internet boom.
From independent producers like Mondo Media to big media companies like MTV, and even kids who post videos on community sites like YouTube.com, the World Wide Web is becoming a sort of worldwide TV network for audiences seeking offbeat entertainment not shown on mainstream television.
Where do we even begin? During the dotcom boom years, full-motion video over the internet was so overhyped as to be a self-parody.
But we’re glad that Reuters takes the time to correct themselves:
...the late 1990s when the dot-com boom fueled the notion that eventually all TV would be delivered on the Web, on-air broadcasting would become wired webcasting and computers would be the TV sets of the future.
“Really, I had this vision 6 years ago,” said Mike Tuinstra, chief executive officer of Joecartoon.com Inc. “It’s just now kind of happening.”
So remember that you read it at Reuters first: TV is coming to the internet. If only we listened to Mike Tuinstra in 1999!
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