TV Technology Quotes

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

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?

I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.

I'm fired up about TV converter boxes.

Television has been a powerful medium and it has been a huge part of my life at least 15 years.

I don't think 3D television gets huge adoption until the consumer experience is no different than HD television. Until you can sit down on your couch and just turn on your TV, and it's 3D without anything else happening, I don't think it'll be a massive adoption.

Internet TV is replacing linear TV.

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

All TV is now digital. It's a platform ripe for innovation; we just haven't seen any beyond picture quality changes. That's a secular problem.

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

HD doesn't mean anything to me. It's a technical thing. It's like demographics. A lot of people know about it.

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But through the effects of TV and interactive video systems and so forth, we'll also have the freedom to pretend to be a mass murderer for the evening. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer controlledthe 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.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

My TV ain't HD, that's too real

Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.

AT&T is now offering a new service that allows you to pay your bills through your TV screen by using your remote control. So instead of saying, "The check's in the mail," people are going to say, "Hey, I wanted to pay, but I couldn't find the remote."

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

Television, nowadays, is like doing really long films.

Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year ago, so it's a very high rate of growth, and that's what's exciting about the business - more and more people are getting smart TVs, they're watching Netflix on their iPads.

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.

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

With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.