For myself, watching tv shows on a tv is becoming less and less of an importance. When I was living at my parents house during high school, my family bought a DVR system, requiring me to set up what shows I wanted to watch. This system changed my devotion to watching tv shows on their original air time. But often I was too busy with my schedule or simply forgot to record my shows (especially ones that weren’t in a series), and I would miss my shows. There are now apps that fix the “forget to record” problem by allowing one to set up their DVR systems from their phones, but they weren’t around at the time. When I moved to college, I began streaming my shows online, requiring me to not have to recorded the show, and with less commercials. But I still had to be at a computer with the internet to watch my shows. Many iPhone apps like tv.com and the upcoming hulu app will allow streaming to the iPhone, allowing me to watch my shows on my own time, anywhere. I noticed that the tv.com app streams to the iPhone in small packages, which interrupts the show every 5 or so minutes. But I have found a new useful feature on the YouTube website (not the app), the shows feature. With this feature, I can watch legal shows and movies streamed to my iPhone. This works because the iPhone can play YouTube videos of any size. I see the future of tv shows becoming more and more about the user watching their shows in a system similar to rss feeds, allowing the user to watch their shows anywhere anytime (at least where there is phone service).
