Vint Cerf’s address at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival gets coverage in a number of UK media outlets. The talk covered a range of technology issues including the future of television. With 85% of all video pre-recorded, Cerf said the time is coming where content apart from news, emergencies and special events (eg, sport) will be downloaded for watching at the consumer’s leisure. Recent concerns about the increase of downloading video via the web bringing down the internet were dismissed as “scare tactics” and that “We’re far from exhausting the capacity.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/27/news.google
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2898444.ece
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10460083
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1358612007
Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we know it
Talking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Vint Cerf said that the television industry would change rapidly as it approached its “iPod moment”. Cerf told an audience of media moguls that TV was rapidly approaching the same kind of crunch moment that the music industry faced with the arrival of the MP3 player.