I watch YouTube videos pretty much everyday and it is, for
me, where I get most of my video entertainment. What I want to compare and
discuss is the two mediums of video entertainment: Television and the Internet.
Until the Internet came around television was pretty much the sole source for
video entertainment. There was no other place to watch a video. In the
beginning the technology for making videos was expensive and not available to
the average person. Personal camcorders came around as early as the 50’s but it
did not really explode until the digital camcorder came to be in the mid 90’s.
Digital storage and technology made it very easy for the average person to
experiment and mess around with what you could do with a video camera. If we
look at television the viewer only has a small about of variety but high
quality. And mainly is based on fictional characters that people enjoyed
finding out about. Now if we look at YouTube or the Internet video world. There
is an insane amount of variety and quality ranging from very high to incredible
low. And is mainly based on real people and events that happen on a personal
level and viewers enjoy getting to know someone that is a real living person. I
do not think either style of entertainment will be going away anytime soon. But
if we want to talk about television and the Internet in terms of a method of
distribution of the videos then I think we can say almost certainly that the
Internet is quickly taking over television. Whether or not television will ever
go away completely is hard to say but I think we can see just from the current
rates that Internet will soon be the very dominant form of video distribution.
Just to through in a little but about art. I think that YouTube has been an
amazing outlet for creativity to flourish. It’s amazing that I get to live
through this very exciting time and see the huge explosion of stuff because of
the Internet.
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