The Future of Television: Tired and Lonely (Part 1)

By Marc Fenigstein - February 16, 2009

This is actually a piece I initially wrote but never published more than a year ago. I’ve resurrected it, because with the emergence of Hulu and Boxee, in the midst of the national (now-irrelevant) transition to digital, it feels as if we are poised for a sea change in what constitutes the television (or more broadly, home entertainment) experience. I think it’s a useful exercise to test these new entrants against the same criticism I had then. But let’s start with then….

At the time, I had attended a talk hosted by the Churchill Club, "The Future of TV: Connected and Personalized." The vision I saw and heard was “The Future of Television: Tired and Lonely:”

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