Pass the remote

The Economist has an insteresting and informative collection of articles Survey: Television available to non-subscribers.

This survey will look at where television is going, and who stands to benefit. It will concentrate on America and Western Europe, because together they account for the vast majority of the world's television market, and others are likely to follow where they lead. The survey will argue that, despite all those costly efforts to transform it into an all-purpose multimedia device, the television set will remain primarily a screen to keep people entertained. Although the digital era will vastly widen the choice of entertainment on TV, it will leave its potency as a mass medium undiminished. It will, however, overturn the way television is consumed.

18 Apr 2002 at 1:02, Helsinki