one of the troubles of reading old technology books is seeing how things were projected and knowing how they turned out.

The reason is that computers are becoming more and more video enabled, equipped to process and display video as a data type. For teleconferencing, multimedia publications, and a host of simulation applications, video is becoming part of all, not just many, computers. This is happening so fast that the snail’s pace of television development, albeit digital, will be eclipsed by the personal computer.

"being digital" by nicholas negroponte (copyright 1995)

so is it isn’t hard to believe that, though television has become pretty cool with hd technology, it might actually be lacking in its user ability to control and create that has brought about the trend that youth are watching their tv online. funny too, that grainy youtube videos are the industry standards and okay by most/all web users.