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Monday, January 15, 2007

Way Over The Top: Data To Your Home

With Sony's announcement of an IPTV module for its new sets and the Media Center features built into Windows Vista™, a lot of people might soon be watching streaming video on their TV, not watching those channels that our cable companies charge us way too much for.

So what's a cable company to do? Continue claiming that its internet service is faster than the phone company's or throttle back the bitrate and charge you extra for those streaming IPTV shows? Stay tuned. (Or should I say - logged-on?)

(Remember - in our digital world its all zeros and ones: your phone call, your TV show, your e-mail. It's time to stop thinking of it as a wire and start thinking of it as a pipe.)

Posted by Techmanager at 12:14 PM
Categories: Media Divergence

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Son of WebTV

Some analysts just don't get Media Divergance, (like Todd Chanko of Jupiter Media) even though there are lots of people paying to watch last night's TV on their iPods. When asked by TelevisionWeek to comment on how Microsoft Vista will promote integration between the computer and the TV, he said: "They are searching for a problem that doesn't really need solving."

Young geeks are all over Slingbox and Xbox. Buy one Media Center PC and a bunch of Xboxes. Feed your recorded TV shows all over your house, the whole dorm, the whole world. With Sony's announcement of an IPTV module for its new sets, gee - it might be a good time to start an Ippy TV network!

Posted by Techmanager at 10:52 PM
Categories: Media Divergence