[Steedeel]

Bear with me as this is something that has been bothering me for sometime now. To many, this may sound far fetched and crazy but here goes.

As a film fan I love my big screen experience! In the last few years the tablet and smartphone have become consumption devices for streaming video. I hate smaller screens for movies but it is what it is. TV sales are struggling and I started to wonder if the next gen will abandon TV sets for smartphones and tablets? Say 8-10 years time? That alone is worrying enough to a home cinema fan like me but then it dawned on me that smartwatches could replace tablets and smartphones in future, this would mean consumption of video would be on minuscule 2 inch screens. In turn, that could mean we get our entertainment in small 'nugget sized' chunks such as five minute news clips and much shorter tv shows with movies virtually unwatchable on such a small screen. To give you an idea of the screen size it's about the same as the little preview box you get of a currently playing youtube clip when you let it play in the bottom corner while searching for something else (on ipad at least). My eyes are not great now and I'm not that old. It bothers me that years from now I may not be able to enjoy a movie because the screen is too small. Is that complete madness or does anyone believe this could be the future? No TV sets in our homes, no tablets and only minuscule smartwatch screens of 2 inches?