Broadcast Paradox

Roku Channel Store; Myka; WD TV Live HD

The race to see who can get the most programming on their internet box is on. Roku opened it's "Channel Store" today with ten free channels, including Blip.tv, FrameChannel, Motionbox and Pandora. At the begining of the month Myka announced it's HD box with Boxee and Hulu. (Thanks to David Tanklefsky of Broadcasting & Cable for the Roko part of the story.)

And last week Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg said that Hulu "is in for the next eight to twelve months and in two years it won't matter because the world will have moved on." (Thanks again to B&C.)

UPDATE: (12-05-09) A firmware update has made paperweights out of Western Digital TV Live HD media boxes that owners chose to upgrade. (Via engadget.)

IPTV Ideas for Life

Panasonic announced on Monday (1/7/08) that it will work with Google to develop TVs that will allow users to watch Internet content such as photos and videos. (Think YouTube and Picasa...)

(From Reuters)

And from Search Engine Journal - more details.

Here Come the CES Announcements !

Sharp and Samsung do deals for limited internet content on their TVs.

Streambox will introduce a software-based product for mobile use and as well as other products.

(Thanks to Lost Remote and NewTeeVee.)

What's Next for IPTV?

I was driving my son back to his apartment last night and we got into a discussion about how disappointing the sales of Apple TV boxes has been. Frank Capria sums up the situation here. (You also may want to take a look at the BusinessWeek article "I Want My iTV".)

Looking forward to MacWorld, my son and I are betting that a revised Apple TV box will sport some flavor of High Def DVD player. Can't wait to see if we're right...

And Business Week reports there is increased buzz that Apple and the big studios are close to agreement on downloadable movie rentals.

Web-to-TV Update

The Wall Street Journal does a nice update of my blog entry "What's All This About Ippy TV?"