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A YouTube TV Channel...Coming to a TV screen near you?

As if there wasn't enough garbage on TV as it is......
 
I'm already seeing some TV's with facebook & youtube apps built in, and you plug an ethernet cable into the TV in order to use those apps. If enough people take advantage of this, I could see this taking off. I sometimes find more stuff I like on Youtube than what the major networks put on TV. Google is also doing the right thing to find programming that isn't on the major networks. There might be something worth watching from the independent producing companies. Weigel Broadcasting is already planning something similar with one of their subchannels on WCIU in Chicago. Since they don't have as much brokered ethnic programming left on FBT, they're eliminating FBT by creating U Too, which will be an extension of WCIU by carrying some existing programs in different time slots, but also carry programming not seen anywhere else.
 
I think this was bound to happen. And it's another step of the internet and tv eventually combining on a tv screen near you. Any bets on when this will be mainstream? 2020, 2015, or sooner?
 
searadiofreak said:
I think this was bound to happen. And it's another step of the internet and tv eventually combining on a tv screen near you. Any bets on when this will be mainstream? 2020, 2015, or sooner?
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From what I've experienced the 'Net is light years away from the quality and simplicity of TV (even those of us with converter boxes).
 
This might end up harming youtube in the long run because of the copyrighted material issue. New stricter policies on the use of copyrighted material would have to be enforced. If that happens, I imagine user activity on youtube goes way down and gets shifted around to other video sharing websites. Similar to how people left myspace for facebook.
 
Arsenio Hall had a weekly hour-long series on My Network There were sites other than YouTube (which I don't think was mentioned as a source), and people sent in content directly to the show as well.
 
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