Broadcast Paradox

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.)