Now, I download episodes of the series I watch, and watch them whenever I feel like it. I either send them wirelessly to my Xbox so I can watch them on the flat screen, or I watch them straight on my computer. My sister and mom stream them on their computers, and I don't think my dad really watches TV anymore. He's talking about cutting off our television service because none of us use it anymore.
I think it's an interesting change. I guess it's similar to the change in the way I use phones. When I was a teenager, I used to actually talk on the phone! My friends would call, and I'd lie on my bed with the phone pressed against my head—twirling the chord in my fingers! Now people don't even call our house. Everyone in my family has a cell phone, and my sister and I don't even talk on those—we just text. Now my dad is talking about disconnecting our land line!
I guess we're at some kind of technology crossroad.
"Downloading" you, and "stream" others. Is not the same.
ReplyDeleteI know, my sister and I access the programing differently, but the point is, neither of us use the digital cable service that is running through our house.
ReplyDeleteInteresting post Nabil. A consequence of all this is the isolation of people within the home. As you noted, the days of the family get-together around the TV are gone. We retire to our private environments to consume media as we choose. I also like to count the number of people on public transportation who have tuned their fellow riders out with music. These days it's over 50%. Private worlds brought to you by technology.
ReplyDeleteThis is very true, and I'm guilty of that one myself :(
ReplyDeleteI do wonder where it's all leading, especially with the next generation raised on this as the norm.
ReplyDeleteWe still watch tv together... I only watch things online that I miss during the week. There are still certain shows that I watch with my whole family. And we still use the landline in the house alot. I don't use my cell phone if I'm at home, its to much money and I have a perfectly good free landline people can call me on! Maybe I'm just in a weird house.
ReplyDeleteThose are reasonable reasons to keep using a land line. I think part of the reason I stopped using it was because I moved out at one point, and only used my mobile. Then when I moved back in with my parents, I never went back to using theirs because I still had my mobile, and it would have been inconvenient to tell everyone a new number.
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