If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.