Anne Sweeney Quotes

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the television set.

I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.

People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.

I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.

WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko.

I remember one of my writers on 'Weeds' got a new apartment and didn't get cable or a dish. He just hooked his computer up to the TV. I was like, 'This is it. This is how it's happening.'

We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

Digital makes things feel more real, like you could reach out and touch them.

I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience.

Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.

Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

I want to make smart television.

A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.

People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser?

We no longer have to capture the 'real world' and recreate it online. We simply live and communicate at the same time.

If Apple, Amazon, Netflix, or somebody else can ever blast away all the ridiculous vestiges of decades-old TV content and technology we live with today, I'll buy whatever they come up with. Until then, I'm settling for a Caavo.

Augmented reality will change the world more than a lot of other technologies. Traveling around to meet people will be much less important when you can stand in a room and chat with a virtual representation of a person that's so close to reality - it'll be a whole new level.

I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.

TV is very mass, especially now that boxes are shifting to small towns.

Television is obviously changing; the way we consume media is changing, so I think it's natural that we are going to try different styles.