Traditional TV will die

Maybe people would like to think so and that was the original intention given that "You" suggests personalization however due to the attractiveness of offers and opportunity in the commerical sector it's now becoming "ThemTube".

You only have to take a look at the new channel layouts without even touching upon all the commerical programmes and adverts to understand this. Everything that made YouTube "personal" has been eliminated. YouTube attempted to justify making channel comments redundant in a bid to channel focus towards the videos themselves rather than create a sideline social media platform however, as I'll go onto explain, they completely contradict themselves:

Originally YouTube channel pages had an attractive, functional grid of videos with a featured video up top serving to do exactly what the site suggested - showing videos. They then changed the layout to a design which squashed 4-5 videos in an iframe to the right hand side forcing a scroll which was totally and utterly impractical. The final nail in the coffin (or maybe not) was the most recent channel layout update which seen the default page showing 1 (featured) video with the rest of the user vidoes hidden on a completely different page accessible by clicking "Videos". If a user wished to display their collection of videos they need to change settings. Many are unaware of this and thus, many channels are not showing collections of videos which is, I'd assume, to be the very function of a video channel.

I usually feel obliged to just agree that Google are utterly terrible at usability strategies however it's clear now that there's a clear agenda in place to firmly steer people towards the commerical videos and YouTube partners. That's all well and good given it's a business, but don't be fooled by thinking "Change is good, just roll with it!" because that certainly isn't true. Youtube is becoming more like TV every day - or a TV "on demand" service at least and it will continue to grow that way.

To be more accurate, "TV" is a device to show a broadcast.

TV will become popular by way of Internet media.

Yep, l agree!

Reality tv shows, in Australia, are pretty horrible. I think that if England stopped making them, most reality shows would disappear, including some of the horrible ones.

Although AU, has it's share of crap, and the TV stations in AU are starting to play some dirty tricks.

The Apprentice is a good example, they are running the AU, version which l tried to watch, but thought that it was crap, after a few shows and turned it off.

Then next series of it, they play the AU version, in prime time when, the American version, which l enjoy watching is on late at night, then it disappeared?

I thought since l couldn't find it in the TV guides, that they got rid of it, but after stumbling on the end of the series, that they were still playing it, but they just removed the listing in the TV guide l was using.

They did the same with Survivor, no listing, after stumbling over it, probably after the public got into them, they started listing it, and playing some ad's.

Always use the online TV guide, to get around there dirty tricks! But if they keep this sort of crap going in AU, it will just drive more people online, some may go to paid tv, (which they are probably hoping for) but with the uncertainly in AU, at the moment, more likely they will just download the lot, as l did!

Shane

P.S. does this nonsense happen in your country, l would be curious to know?