Eric from Appvee.com reviews the ABC Player iPad App and give it a big thumbs up. I think the ABC iPad App is great as well but it reminds me of the early days of TV.

If you remember your television history, radio was still king and television was looked at as a passing fad. Much the same way the iPad is looked at by many right now. Back then, radio shows were show on TV the way they were broadcast on the radio, people stood in front of microphones and acted out the radio show. Television formats had not yet been developed. It wasn’t till the 1950s when Desi Arnaz developed a muti-camera format for the sitcom I love Lucy that TV shows stopped being broadcast live in the large markets and shown as kinescope images around the country later. His format is still in use today.

As for web video and now iPad video, we are doing the same thing. We are taking television shows and things that look like TV shows and putting them on these new platforms. We have yet to develop new interactive programming.

I’m hopping that this year we will see some iPad Video Apps that are more than just radio shows on TV. I’m hopping we get to see some new interactive shows that take our minds in new places and give us joy the way I love Lucy did and still does today.