Vodcasts are the New TV

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Vodcasts are the New TV

Posted by Brusca under Apple

As the wide world of online video continues to rise in the form of vodcasts and webisodes, so does the switch from regular viewing TV to online viewing on the big screen. It’s no news that this shift has been happening for some time, but the more it progresses the more the big broadcasters have to stand up and take notice.

I have to say Australian TV does not have a lot to offer even though the ratings season has just started, I’m not all that impressed. So it makes life easier to have such a wide variety of content available online. 90% of my viewing this week has been online content, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. This has been helped along with the advent of certain hardware and software such as Apple TV and other online media centers allowing easier access to regularly updated video content, such as FREE vodcasts and renting DVD’s and TV shows online.

In any case broadcasters are now embracing vodcasts more than ever with the release of some TV episodes online only 24 hours after airing. This could be seen as somewhat of an attempt to fight the illegal download of shows and a way for the big corporates to say “we can’t beat you, so we’re going to join you” in order to please the growing audiences craving Video On Demand. A perfect example of this is The Gruen Transfer aired on ABC. I actually don’t watch this when it normally airs on TV and subscribe to the podcast to watch when I find the time.

There is a plethora of content to subscribe to, with vodcasts covering a wide variety of topics that sit within many genres. The ease of which vodcasts can be produced makes it very accessible for anyone to produce one nowadays and they don’t need to be at the standards of a TV broadcast but can be equally entertaining.