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Story of tele …

To me tele- has always associated with television. I can still remember how bad weather didn’t let me watch MacGyver from Finnish TV or how evening news gathered whole family around the TV set. On the one hand, it was a very nice tradition but on the other, TV schedule is a very annoying invention - when some of your favorite shows begin, you have to sit next to TV set and stare it until first commercial brake. And when you don’t own a recorder (and I don’t) then it’s a bit frustrating.

What could and will change in a near future?

Or maybe it’s better to say that it’s already changed? For a some time now tv.ee has offered TV shows and films for watching them for free (Estonian channels only) and ETV Pluss is concentrated for national television. And world-famous YouTube well known for all anyway. One common feature of all those services is that you can browse and watch your favorite shows when and where ever you want and that is certainly future of televison.

For those, who are more interested in future TV, Joost (formerly known as The Venice Project) is the project to keep eye on.