The wonderful thing about reading for entertainment, as opposed to video is that we each fill in the background details in our minds, based on our individual experiences. With video the director has to fill in those (visual) details for you. Of course there are some subtle individualization happening but not nearly to the same degree that books allow. This means that we each are taking in a slightly different story. Actually when we reread a book years later, we find that it is slightly different from our original reading.
Some day in the future a kid will come to their parent and say something like, "Daddy, look at this portable TV. It doesn't have any pictures or sound - just words. Isn't that neat?" Or words to that effect.
