Smartwatch may lead to less tv/films in future (my theory)

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Originally Posted by chip75

Japan was enamoured with making TV screens as small as possible in the '70s and '80s (their tiny TVs often pop-up in US movies from that era). It's probably the same with other technology today, they and other tech providers will push the boundaries but it won't be for everyone.

Watching movies on small screens can be considered a diversion, something to eat-up the time. Watching on the big screen is the opposite, it's an event, a thing to savour, something to look forward too.

But Japan never got rid of their larger TVs. Watching a movie on a smartphone is fine, but it will never replace the larger screen. Steel was suggesting that the smartwatch would replace TV screens altogether, which I said is insane and would never happen.