With the advent of wideband Internet access on the order of 24 megabits persecond in many metropolitan areas, it might signal the death of television as we know it.
At the moment, digital video cameras take poor quality stills, and digital still cameras take poor quality video (largely because they have to compromise quality in order to perform all that interpolation on several frames persecond).
To make sure the transmission would make it back to Earth, the images sent back by the astronauts were recorded at 10 frames persecond (fps), and had to be converted to 60fps in order to be broadcast.