English Post And You

01 - Hello. how are you?

02 - Hi. How are you doing?

03 - Good morning! How´s everything?

04 - I haven´t seen you for ages.

05 - It´s been a while since I saw you.

06 - We´ve missed you.

07 - How have you been?

08 - Great, thanks.

09 - I´m very well, thank you.

10 - It´s all going really well.

11 - How about you?

12 - It´s lovely to see you again.

13 - I´ve been looking forward to seeing you.

14 - How´s everyone at home?

15 - Susan sends her regards.

16 - Give your mum my love.

17 - You haven´t met my neighbor, have you?

18 - I don´t think you know each other.

19 - Let me introduce you.

20 - I´d like you to meet my cousin.

21 - This is John, a colleague of mine.

22 - How do you do?

23 - Pleased to meet you.

24 - It´s getting late.

25 - I must get going.

26 - We must be on our way.

27 - I´m afraid I have to leave now.

28 - It was very nice meeting you.

29 - It was lovely to see you again.

30 - The pleasure is all mine.

31 - Do keep in touch.

32 - Let me know how you´re getting on.

33 - See you again soon.

34 - Catch you later.

35 - Take care.

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Streaming the Small Screen

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INTRODUCTION

Cable channels, broadcasters and plasma flat-screens have got some competition. Streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime are creating more and more original content, featuring box office draws like Kevin Spacey, Ricky Gervais and John Goodman. Meanwhile, a new digital antenna is promising Web access to broadcast television. Is it time to throw out the sets? What will the next television era look like?

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The Television Will Be Revolutionized

$Descrição: C:\Users\Ederson\Desktop\Tristan_LouisRFD-thumbStandard.jpg$ Tristan Louis is a technology writer and entrepreneur who is currently in charge of Keepskor, a service that allows users to create multiplayer games on mobile devices. (UPDATED JUNE 12, 2013, 6:59 PM)

The Internet has eaten television up. In the past, TV offered a steady stream of live and taped shows, either on a subsidized (advertising backed) or paid (subscription) model. Netflix and Amazon have followed the traditional premium channel model, offering original programming on a paid subscription basis with a small twist: you can watch anything they offer at any time and on any device you want.

In a world where content is consumed in either short or binge form on a variety of devices, the show is now central and the network has taken a backseat.

Meanwhile YouTube and Vimeo provide ad-supported user-generated short-form content. This follows the traditional advertising-supported model while reducing the cost of production by providing a marketplace where amateurs, "prosumers," and professionals compete alongside each other for eyeballs in another any time and any device model.

What has arisen is a world where content is consumed in either short or binge form on a variety of devices, with little regard to which network it was created for. The show is now central and the network has taken a backseat.

If it is to survive, traditional television will need to adapt itself to this new reality, offering an increasing amount of ad-supported “live” content (news, sports, awards) to capitalize on its dominance in real-time broadcasting, while granting subscription-based access to its back catalog across many devices so that it fits in a world where consumers are looking for a TV experience that is personal, portable, and always on.

Television advertising models are also about to be upended as the digital era will provide more granular demographic and geographic data on audiences, leading to more efficient but more price-pressured ads.

Those who can position themselves quickly and more efficiently in this new world will thrive while the rest of the industry will contract.

It’s a Work in Progress

$Descrição: C:\Users\Ederson\Desktop\Ron_SimonRFD-thumbStandard.jpg$ $Descrição: C:\Users\Ederson\Desktop\David_BushmanRFD-thumbStandard.jpg$ David Bushman and Ron Simon are television curators at The Paley Center for Media.JUNE 12, 2013

Television is constantly evolving. The values of live programming and public service that informed so much of network television in the ’50s are mostly absent from a contemporary audience’s expectations. In fact, it seems that every 10 years or so there is a major upheaval in what television means to most viewers: from live programming out of New York City in the ’50s to Hollywood entertainment and variety shows in the ’60s to socially conscious programs reflecting modern life in the ’70s to a magazine, niche model of cable in the ’80s and ’90s to the wave of reality television that has overtaken every network since 2000. But most people really never have spoken of television in the abstract; they have always been more interested in its programming.

Despite the dazzling pace of technological change, it is our belief that content will continue to drive viewer interest.

Despite the dazzling pace of technological change, it is our belief that content will continue to drive viewer interest, and thus play the dominant role in shaping the future of television, just as it has throughout the medium’s history. Content is the reason people rushed out in the ’40s to purchase television sets, to watch "Texaco Star Theater" and "Your Show of Shows," or turned to "Friends" and "Seinfeld" and the rest of NBC’s “Must-See TV” Thursday-night lineup in the ’90s, or ponied up extra dollars for addictive, buzzed-about cable shows like "The Sopranos" and "Mad Men," or are now purchasing subscriptions to Netflix for "House of Cards." The bottom line is economic viability: as much as they might bask in the glory of offering acclaimed, award-winning shows, programmers need these shows to work financially to stay in business, and that will be just as true a decade from now as it is today.

Of course how and when people watch will continue to evolve – the democratization of video on demand is helplessly enticing – but what people watch will continue to be driven by the quality of the content itself, just as it always has.