Sites like youtube.com and myspace.com recieve millions of hits from viewers everyday. Watching music videos and shocking stories to funny homemade videos and unfound talent. Obviously though, people producing these videos whether professional and rich or not will not need proffessional equipment used by shows such as Jools Holland or in 'Film' production. So resolutions will not be as clear, sound may not be as crisp and certainly with cheap editing software they may be jerky or mismatched parts.
So obviously straight away standards will drop. Also, it's very unlikely that anyone who produces an home video or drama series has much, if any knowledge of techniques and characteristics of certain genres or productions. Whenever then, this is consumed, which in some peoples cases is more accessible than proffessional films and TV, their level of expectations and standards for productions such as these will drop severely. Argueably most people may be able to seperate the two levels of quality, but younger generations will definetly have their thoughts influenced by the online videos.
Also when, if ever they come to attempt something themselves, they may aim for that standard, which could see the quality dropping lower and lower. Another part is that some TV programmes and internet only channels produce their videos specifically for the internet, so they will be made for a much smaller screen. Therefore there may be budget cuts in the programme. For example large sweeping crane shots will become less neccessary because on a small screen you do not feel such a large movement and impact, basic shots may be used and using the least amount of sound/video or colour and other elements which add to the amount of memory of the finished video may be cut down to save space and upload times. Creating a video of a lower standard.
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