The Future of TV? "3D is a Proven Failure & 4K is Dead on Arrival"

HBO is planning for the future of television, & they don't think it's in 3D or 4K. The article's writer believes TV's future is online. Which might bring a vast improvement over current ratings systems with their limited sampling size.

What say you?

Here in the UK we have a massive problem in relation to the future of TV. And that is the ancient setup of the BBC.

In my opinion the BBC are capable of producing the best content in the world, that I have witnessed anyway.

But the way it is payed for is immoral, it is a license fee. Back in the early day of TV the license fee was for use of the airwaves, as also used by the police/ambulance etc, but today that’s nonsense and the license fee is just a payment method.

And it’s a payment method that isn’t bringing in enough money for the worlds most experienced broadcaster to work properly. And some of that is internal affairs.

But it goes greater than that.

If, for example, I wanted to watch all channels except for the BBC today I still need to pay them for the privilege of watching their competitors broadcasts.

If only my, or your, business worked like that.

I cancelled my Virgin Media TV subscription, and my National TV Licensee, in favour of being able to watch what I want when I want online.

The BBC is restricted, their old fashion nonsense license payment can only apply to watching live broadcasts. So I can even legally watch old, or any not live programs on their website without officially paying them for doing so.

I don’t know how it is elsewhere, but outside state TV the future must definitely be in some form of online viewing.

Maybe live broadcast is fairer in other parts of the world but here the BBC have been shaking up their internal finances and have forgot all about where the financing is coming from.

Or so it seems, I’m hoping for a big change.

I have not read the article yet, with will but for know I am going ahead and say... yes he is right the TV signal will come from the Internet outlet not over satellite maybe cable in form of the internent.
Hint that is why industries already reacted with smart TV.
Sure don't agree that 4K is dead on arrival. I will have to read why this statement...

I know more and more folks already getting 100% of their television via Internet services such as Apple TV, Netflix, Hulu Plus, etc. I'm one of them. It isn't the future, it is today. Broadcasters are just slow to catch on.

4K is just around the corner, too.

If google fiber can be setup throughout the country, the Internet would probably be able to stream 4K. 1Gb/s is damn fast. If google ever wants To be a real video content provider they will need to be able to supply it themselves. To prevent the cable companies from pricing things too high and keeping speeds too slow. All google really needs to do is break even on the investment. The main goal is just to get more people faster Internet so they can sell more advertisements. The future of video on the Internet is going to explode if google fiber really spreads.