{"id":11705,"date":"2010-11-23T10:14:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=11705"},"modified":"2010-11-23T10:15:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:15:05","slug":"from-dsc-the-topic-below-will-eventually-provide-an-additional-channel-for-how-we-consume-educational-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/11\/23\/from-dsc-the-topic-below-will-eventually-provide-an-additional-channel-for-how-we-consume-educational-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"From DSC: The topic below will eventually provide an additional &#8220;channel&#8221; for how we consume educational materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/insidedigitalmedia.com\/cutting-the-pay-tv-cord-chapter-5-unlimited-internet-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cutting the Pay TV Cord, Chapter 5: Unlimited Internet TV<\/a> &#8212; <\/strong>from Phil Leigh<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1698\" href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/02\/23\/looking-back-at-learning-technologies-2010-from-hans-de-zwart\/1696-revision-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"philblueheadshot\" src=\"http:\/\/insidedigitalmedia.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/philblueheadshot.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"philblueheadshot\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In short, often there is no reason why modern flat panel TV screens cannot function as giant monitors for up-do-date computers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Thus a growing number of us are attaching computers to our TVs.\u00a0 The  trend is especially prevalent for WiFi enabled computers because they  can connect over a home network and thence to the Internet. In such  configurations computers \u2013 commonly dedicated laptops \u2013 function as  Internet gateways for televisions. They transform TVs into dual function  devices normally controlled from a comfortable viewing distance with  ordinary TV remote units.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also see:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/insidedigitalmedia.com\/cutting-the-pay-tv-cord-chapter-4-broadcast-reception\/\">Cutting the Pay TV Cord, Chapter 4: Broadcast Reception<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/insidedigitalmedia.com\/cutting-the-pay-tv-cord-chapter-3-televisions\/\">Cutting the Pay TV Cord, Chapter 3: Televisions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/insidedigitalmedia.com\/cutting-the-pay-tv-cord-chapter-2\/\">Cutting the Pay TV Cord, Chapter 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/insidedigitalmedia.com\/cutting-the-pay-tv-cord-chapter-1\/\">Cutting the Pay TV Cord, Chapter 1<\/a><br \/>\nIf you\u2019re tired of paying for television service you\u2019re not alone. The number of domestic pay TV subscribers declined for the first time  ever at the end of the June, 2010 calendar quarter. The drop was about  200,000. It declined again at the end of the September quarter by an  estimated 100,000. Since there are over 95 million pay TV subscribers,  the industry publicly minimizes the significance of the trend reversal.  But they are wrong to do so. It\u2019s been a growth business for half a  century. It\u2019s run its course and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Future-of-Television-ebook\/dp\/B00480OKN6\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1288989254&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Internet video is the successor<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting the Pay TV Cord, Chapter 5: Unlimited Internet TV &#8212; from Phil Leigh In short, often there is no reason why modern flat panel TV screens cannot function as giant monitors for up-do-date computers. Thus a growing number of us are attaching computers to our TVs.\u00a0 The trend is especially prevalent for WiFi enabled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,208,8,286,252,18,275,346,373,180,55,408,14,23,256,62,133,219,130,188,40,299],"tags":[355,19,570,578,704,571,183,677,749,661,597,767,575,580,700,240,430,601,635,682,634,665,42,666,422,572],"class_list":["post-11705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-av-audiovisual","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-digital-audio","category-digital-learning","category-digital-photography","category-digital-storytelling","category-digital-textbooks","category-distance-education","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-innovation","category-internet","category-mediafilm","category-mobile-learning","category-multimedia","category-music","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-online-tutoring","category-podcasting","category-teaching-online","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-workplace","tag-av","tag-cloud-computing","tag-digital-audio","tag-digital-storytelling","tag-digital-textbooks","tag-digital-video","tag-distance-ed","tag-emerging-technologies","tag-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","tag-innovation","tag-internet","tag-mediafilm","tag-mobile-learning","tag-multimedia","tag-music","tag-new-publishing-models","tag-nontraditional","tag-online-learning","tag-online-media","tag-online-tutoring","tag-podcasting","tag-teaching-online","tag-technologies-for-the-home","tag-videoconferencing","tag-vodcasting","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11705"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11717,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705\/revisions\/11717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}