This is the future

I don't normally watch baseball, my favorite sports are basketball & soccer, but this World Baseball Classics got me going hot hot! Korea is beating pants off everybody, emerging as the most likely winner against all odds. US? Let's say I'm very disappointed and embrassed.

Funny thing about this is that I'm watching the games on the Internet, more specifically Yahoo! Korea. The game is in LA, feeds off to a Korean TV station which broadcasts in Korea. Next, Yahoo! Korea gets the real time feed from the TV station and broadcasts all over the Internet, to my home, on the east coast, because I would have to get premium ESPN package to see the games. Normally, TV is ideal medium for live news, sports, & shows, but now that I've watched the games, I'm not so sure anymore. Unofficially, more than 1.5 million people tuned in(!) to Yahoo! broadcast. People in Korea has more options, catch it on traditional TV, but for some other people, they can watching it on a DMB-enabled phone as in this photo.

The future is here, on the small screens. And on the big screens. The web pioneered how the information can be displayed without specific constraints. Now, the other media will have to learn how to deal with every changing, and increasing choices of screen sizes. The choice is, as always, yours.