昨日の勤労感謝の日はどんなテレビを見ましたか?

アメリカはThanksgiving Dayでお休み。それでこんなコラムが送られてきました。

+++++

EDITOR'S PERSPECTIVE

When TV isn't TV
By Dan O'Shea

Like everyone else within a 3000 mile radius, I will be watching the TV in my living room at some point tomorrow, whether it's during a Thanksgiving parade or a football game or during that mid-day marathon of "Sanford & Son" episodes on TVLand (This will, of course, occur after my wife and I have equally shared the Thanksgiving Day cooking and pre-company house cleaning duties).

We'll all be watching TV at some point, and during what is a long weekend for many of us, we may be watching more than usual, maybe more than we have in a while. And given how much we've all been talking about YouTube and the ever-increasing influence of Web video and user-generated content lately, it may occur to us more than once that what we are viewing is an entertainment experience that is in the throes of great change.

At the TelcoTV conference and expo in Dallas earlier this month, speakers and other attendees were name-checking YouTube like they were getting paid to do it. I'm convinced that many of them wouldn't have uttered the "Y" word at all had Google not acquired the user-generated content juggernaut for $1.65 billion. But in any case, telcos, their vendors, their partners and their advisors are quickly trying to understand what kind of effect YouTube-like content will have on their IPTV plans and how to somehow integrate this content into their IPTV services--or at least not look like they're not willing to integrate it.

If they succeed, they will help change the way we watch TV. But if nothing else, the success of YouTube reminds us that not everything worth watching easily fits into a traditional TV model. How will consumers use their TVs to search for interesting online content? Will they have access to online content that doesn't come from the couple of big-name online firms that telcos choose to partner with? They will have to tread carefully in answering these questions, or risk disappointing a whole generation that is growing up on user-generated content, but to this point hasn't been sitting in the living room watching it on their parents' TV.

E-mail me at doshea@telephonyonline.com.

+++++

一時期はテレビの代わりにGyaOを見る? という話が日本でもありましたが、いまや YouTubeの前にGyaOも色あせて見えるのでしょうか。

しかしどちらにしても
動画投稿サイト「テレビ映像なければ利用減る」が６割――日経リサーチ調査
という記事を読むと、テレビがもう少しネットでコンテンツを出せば、事情は変わるのよね・・・なんていつもの独りごとになりそうで。

でも
ラジオ番組をネットで同時配信、J-WAVEが元旦に開始へ
という動きは、要注目ですかね。
私は東京在住でそのままラジオが聞けるからいいけど、このネット配信がスタジオの様子を伴ったら、とかテレビでも同様の試みをしたら、とか色々考えるネタとして。

ちなみに、私は日中出かけていたので朝、夜はいつもの勤務日と同じ感じだったのですが、夕方早くに夕食を終えたので、余った時間でいつもは週末に行う趣味のブログ更新をしておりました。あら・・・