changing face of TV

I've become addicted to a new podcast, Ask A Ninja. You can find it on iTunes or on their blog. Its a nice bit of humor that really challenges you to follow just what the ninja says. Adult humor at its finest.

But what the creators are doing is pushing the envelope of how content is being delivered. With the growing number of households adopting broadband as their way of getting electronic information, the number of people who are getting their content on their computers is on the rise. Couple this with the ease of storing that data on external hard drives (which are really cheap) and you've got a demographic that is getting their content (shows) instantly and watching them whenever they like. I am a part of this demographic - the nerds who download stuff to watch cuz they do want to be tied to a tv.

And that's just what is happening. Ask A Ninja's goal is to start breaking down the mold of today's content delivery (mainly tv) and to get a new business model in place for the new way that content will be delivered. I remember seeing a program given about a year ago called "Piracy is Good!" that I downloaded from Bit Torrent and the gentleman's presentation talked about how tv as we know it today can/will be totally different in 10 years. If you get a chance to see this presentation, I highly suggest it.

So Ask A Ninja is trying something new with content and Bit Torrent is a new way to deliver content. How long before tv figures out that they aren't the only source for video content any more and tries to adapt? Hmmm, sounds like we are about to see the beginning of something completely different. I wonder where this is gonna go...