How true. Computers won. The so called TV is now a big flat screen monitor.
Why TV Lost: “About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they’d produce when they converged. We now know the answer: computers. It’s clear now that even by using the word ‘convergence’ we were giving TV too much credit. This won’t be convergence so much as replacement. People may still watch things they call ‘TV shows,’ but they’ll watch them mostly on computers.”
(Via Paul Graham.)
IMHO computers have won long time back, even before the onset of flat screen TVs and streaming videos. The set-top box is a computer for all practical purpose; its just that the transport through which the media is delivered is not TCP/IP.
May be the TV networks hoped they could build a parallel network like internet just for TV and get you hooked on to that. However thank god, it didn’t happened.
Speaking of which the new Mac Mini looks compelling. It would suite the HTPC that I am longing for.