Have online videos lowered the standards of television production?

In the recent decade, online videos have came largely popular and have much so changed the way the pupil watch programmes.


Television production has increased from 5 up to 1000 channels with thousands of television programmes being produced each year. However, the internet has gave people an even wider range of programmes and videos to watch online.


For example, sites such as 'Youtube' are simply sites dedicated to sharing individuals home videos online for anyone to enjoy. 'Youtube', is a big advantage for regular people to share short feature films, music videos, individual talents and so on. It is known that 'Youtube' has been a gateway for success in the past for many people such as Justin Bieber who started out posting videos of him singing on 'Youtube'.

The programme 'Rube Tube' itself is entirely based around popular and funny 'Youtube' videos, in which home videos are shown throughout the whole show. Therefore, this programme is very cheap to produce as the TV shows inserts have already been created by the public. Other programmes similar to 'Rude Tube' would be ones such as: 'Animals do the Funniest Things'; 'You've been Framed' ect. These programmes are very popular with the producers of the show as it is cheap to produce. However, the show's contents can be low quality as the videos will have been recorded by the public, in which it is very unlikely that they would have recorded the videos on professional cameras. Also, many Jobs will not be on offer when creating the TV shows as most of the content will have been produced in advance.

Many Television shows can now be watched online through sites such as 'BBC IPlayer' and '4oD' in which many people turn to when they have missed the show on television. Also there are many programmes made just for online viewing such as 'E20', which is based on the youth of EastEnders. These shows would have to be made to a lower quality to be viewed online. 


The standards of television production has most definitely been lowered in one way, as the demand for compressed files for people to watch videos and programmes on there phones and Ipods. Another reason is because the demand for programmes such as 'Rube Tube' in which the majority is recorded on low quality cameras or phones. On the other hand, television standards are also being risen contently despite the demand for online videos, with HD and even 3D TV's being launched.