If you watch TV on the internet, is it still TV?

Does “televised” count?

If you watch a DVD at home, is it still a movie?

@gailcalled Of course. A movie is a movie no matter whether it is on a movie screen, broadcast, or played from a recording.

TV seems to refer to specific form of delivery of content, rather than to the content itself, but perhaps people disagree. Perhaps some feel that TV is a certain type of content, no matter how it is delivered. Is it a TV show if it’s on a DVD? Is it a TV show if it comes over the internet? Or is it merely a “show” if it comes on DVD or Internet, and a “tv show” only if broadcast and only when it is broadcast over a network of some kind?

Linguistically, everything that we see, whether it is in a (movie) theatre, on a telly, on your pc’s monitore, or in real life could/should be called television, I would think.
The images/scenes that we are being shown should be viewed from a distance (but how far probably is debatable).
Tele = distant.
Vision = viewing.

Hmmmmmm, ok. Now I have to think.

If you watch live TV on the Internet in the UK you still need a TV licence .

It is most definitely still tv. The difference is, you don’t have to wade through 39 different channels to see the show you want to watch.

Cable, fibre optic, the internet, satellite, antennae, etc. are all means of delivery of content.

Content can be news, movies, scripted shows, reality shows, game shows, amateur movies, situation comedies, etc.

Content Providers are Verizon, AT&T, Netflix, Roku, Apple TV, etc.

Content Producers are NBC, ABC, HBO, CBS, etc. plus dozens of movie and media studios.

Television simply refers to how you are viewing the content (as explained by @rebbel).

The confusion comes in that the word “television” has also come to be known as the box with the screen in your house. But really, it’s a “television set”.

Same as a “radio” is really a “radio receiver” that translates “radio waves” carrying content to the listener.

So (short answer) – YES it is still television in my opinion.

@cprevite You’ve lost me. Is all video content I view on the internet television? Or is it only certain kinds of content? I.e., content from certain producers or providers? Is all video television?

So what is it if I watch YouTube on my TV set through an Apple TV connection?

@wundayatta & @zenvelo: Based on @rebbel‘s definition (which I really like), I say yes, it’s all “television”.

from the Oxford English Dictionary
television
tel⋅e⋅vi⋅sion /teliviʒn/
noun
1) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects

2) a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points

3) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen

ORIGIN: From tele- (at a distance) + vision.

The programming comes from television programming stations. The actual content may then become available on the internet, but it is initially televised over airwaves purchased by the broadcasting networks.

Did you know that the Mandarin word for “movie” is just the characters “electric” and “shadow” smushed together? I thought that was cool.

If I display it on my TV I think it is. Maybe from the iPad it’s TP.

Yes… And no