{"id":725,"date":"2007-11-28T17:35:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T17:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/28\/when-will-you-buy-your-last-tv\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T13:06:09","slug":"when-will-you-buy-your-last-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/28\/when-will-you-buy-your-last-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"When will you buy your last TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/326820913\/\" title=\"You must protect yourself from those evil marketing rays by Unhindered by Talent, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/136\/326820913_ac438a1ed2_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"You must protect yourself from those evil marketing rays\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe ever enlightening John Naughton is suggesting that <a href=\"http:\/\/memex.naughtons.org\/archives\/2007\/11\/25\/4546\">TV execs perhaps have their heads in the sand<\/a> about the changes in how much we watch TV.  Sadly, this isn&#8217;t terribly surprising, and could no doubt be extended to include almost everyone in the &#8220;old school&#8221; entertainment industry (RIAA, MPAA).<\/p>\n<p>At the end, however, he has this brilliant bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBill Thompson has a vivid way of expressing this: no child entering primary school this year will ever buy a television set, he predicts.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow &#8211; doesn&#8217;t that just nail it?  I shared this with WeatherGirl (who was probably being productive instead of just surfing the net for random crap), and she pointed out that our family may well have purchased our last TV several years ago.  We&#8217;ll certainly buy video display systems in the future, but probably not TVs in the classic tuner+display form.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/change\/\" title=\"change\">change<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/future\/\" title=\"future\">future<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/tv\/\" title=\"TV\">TV<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/02\/24\/its-worth-10-minutes-of-your-time\/\" title=\"It&#8217;s worth 10 minutes of your time (24 Feb 08)\">It&#8217;s worth 10 minutes of your time<\/a> (1)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/05\/20\/it-doesnt-pay-to-underestimate-the-kids\/\" title=\"It doesn&#8217;t pay to underestimate the kids (20 May 10)\">It doesn&#8217;t pay to underestimate the kids<\/a> (2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ever enlightening John Naughton is suggesting that TV execs perhaps have their heads in the sand about the changes in how much we watch TV. Sadly, this isn&#8217;t terribly surprising, and could no doubt be extended to include almost everyone in the &#8220;old school&#8221; entertainment industry (RIAA, MPAA). At the end, however, he has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/28\/when-will-you-buy-your-last-tv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When will you buy your last TV?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[74,72,69],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":412,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/12\/18\/evil-marketing-ray-guns-are-eating-my-brain\/","url_meta":{"origin":725,"position":0},"title":"Evil marketing ray guns are eating my brain!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"18 Dec 06","format":false,"excerpt":"pink Christmas, originally uploaded by ahyc. 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