Vint Surf predicts death to television

    One of the Internet's founding fathers, Vinton Surf, said the entire television industry is approaching the “iPod moment,” that is, an irreversible bifurcation point, followed by an inevitable era of massive change.

    The inventor of TCP / IP, now vice president of Google and chairman of ICANN, spoke at an international conference of broadcasters and shared his vision of the future with them. In his opinion, the television industry is approaching the same stage that the music industry went through after entering the market of MP3 players.

    “85% of the entire video that we watch is recorded in advance, so you can configure all systems to download via the Internet,” said Vint Surf. “We still need a live stream for some things like news, sports, and emergency cases, but more and more TV will be used as an iPod: you download content to watch it later.” In the future, most TV shows will be distributed on the Internet — this revolution will lead to the death of television as a broadcast service. Instead, the next generation of interactive services will appear. "In Japan, you can now download an hour of video in just 16 seconds ... And we start mixing the information together ... imagine that you can pause the TV show and click on different objects on the screen to get additional information about them."

    Some telecommunications companies believe that backbone channels will not be able to cope with the increased flow of video content on the Web, but Winton Surf strongly disagrees. He says that in thirty years the Network has grown a million times, and the limit has not yet been reached.

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