The Future of TVs. Literature & Language Essay Paper

The Future of TVs
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There has been a lot of technological advancements over the past century. These changes have affected the cultural ways of people regarding the access to internet services. The world of using TVs well demonstrates this. In the past, a Tv used to be a luxury owned by the rich. However, given the current changes, they have become easily affordable by most of the people in the world. The TVs used to be the best method of passing across news and other entertainment programs to its viewers. However, this seems to be changing due to the availability of other ways of making those programs available to the users. Also, the types of TVs sets used are also changing over time. People have moved from black and white television sets to multicolored ones. Also, the availability of streaming services has reduced the number of individuals who watch programs from television sets. Subscribing to the streaming channels seems to be expensive as compared to the subscription made on TVs to watch a variety of programs. Some of the TVs have also joined the world of streaming hence making it easy for an individual to access the programs without a TV.
We have almost completed a century since TVs had been implemented. There are plenty of new ways through which individuals can watch TV programs. Therefore, the digital era has become a threat to the survival of TVs due to the availability of services such a Netflix and Youtube. Research shows that TV s might be losing some of its viewers to these services. Is TV a leftover from the past that will soon be outdated, or is TV keeping up with the times and attracting new viewers?
"Streaming media devices, which are a type of connected TVs, are reshaping the meaning of the watching TV experience" (Yang & Lee, 2018). Such devices include phones, iPod and tablets among others. The devices have replaced TV because an individual can walk around with them and still be able to carry out other activities across the internet. In the case of TVs, an individual has to use it from the house and hence, it becomes inconvenient especially for the working-class people. Also, streaming services have taken advantage of the availability of such devices to provide users with programs that are an equivalent of what the TVs are showing. Besides, the streaming sites have developed user-friendly applications which the users can easily maneuver to watch any program of their preference. This is a challenge to TVs because they are gradually losing some of their viewers especially the young generation.
Also, viewers prefer to watch uninterrupted content because it is more entertaining as compared to content that is full of advertisements. TV programs have taken advantage of advertisers to make money out if it and hence, their content has many advertisements which might be boring to users. "The author assumes the reason behind the change is because of television advertisements that continuously interrupt audiences' viewing experiences" (Chang, 2015). As a r...