Could TV as we know it be dead?

Television has existed for more than 60 years, but like all mediums of communication, there comes a time when the model just doesn’t fit in with new release technologies. The writer’s strike could very well be the death of the format known as television. As we speak, Venture Capitalists and Writer’s are meeting together to discuss a variety of ideas to launch new ways of pushing entertainment into the home. Money quote:

“Dozens of striking film and TV writers are negotiating with venture capitalists to set up companies that would bypass the Hollywood studio system and reach consumers with video entertainment on the Web.

At least seven groups, composed of members of the striking Writers Guild of America, are planning to form Internet-based businesses that, if successful, could create an alternative economic model to the one at the heart of the walkout, now in its seventh week.

Three of the groups are working on ventures that would function much like United Artists, the production company created 80 years ago by Charlie Chaplin and other top stars who wanted to break free from the studios.

“It’s in development and rapidly incubating . . .”

Stirring the beehive of entrepreneurial innovation in America is just asking to get stung. Its not like they couldn’t find someone with the capital to launch these ideas. I’ll make a bold prediction; within 15 years, television as we know it will not exist. A hybrid internet style digital broadcast combining both elements of entertainment variety like the internet, but with similar production standards as current broadcast television. All it’ll take is one genius to come up with a strong advertising model, and any barrier still left in the way of progress will cease to exist — unblocking the future.