McFilter

Forward Thinking BBC

I think it's excellent that the BBC has people like Ashley Highfield involved. In his speech TV's Tipping Point: Why The Digital Revolution Is Only Just Beginning: PaidContent.org, he shows the sorts of exciting, out-of-the-box thinking that can carry the BBC forward into the brave new world of PVRs (Personal Video Recorders, like TiVo or Sky+), downloading over broadband, "ambient TV"... The talk is of embracing technology, rather than fighting it as the music industry is.

"We should create more programmes that come with the meta-data, the tags in the programme that allow it to be chopped up and consumed piece meal by the viewer."

The future of TV is going to be fun!