I think you may be underestimating the current capabilities that are out there. I\’ll be admit that I\’m a little dorkier than the average person when it comes to home electronics and am willing to but some time into my setup. Right now I am able to download HD content (movies(9-12gb)) to my home PC server over the internet using newsgroups. This fully saturates my Comcast connection at 3.5mbps and is encrypted using SSL. I can stream it over a wired LAN(while still downloading) to a souped-up laptop (I am lucky enough to have a high end laptop from work, but devices such as SageTV media extender could do the trick) and from there to HDMI and surround sound. Sure I only get a couple movie\\shows a day but who has time for than much content anyways? Of course this isn\’t very \’on demand\’ but with a days notice I can have a movie which beats Netflix. And I can store it forever on a hard drive. I of course still have Netflix for hard to find stuff but went from 20-5$ a month there and now pay $30\\month for giganews. I know people who have 30mbps residential FIOS service which theoretically could speed things up to download an hour of HD content in less than an hour.

My question is: when will the media companies offer a competitive service? Sure it will take 3-5 years to mature but why wait? It would sure take the hassle out of dealing with the cable companies or at least give leverage in negotiating with them. I would gladly take my money there if they offered a similar capability.

Cheers!

–Nick

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Tivo helped somewhat to fix this to opt. B
and the handhelds will also help us get information when we want it..think the tv networks are getting the picture just by offering programing to watch online they realize information is heading in a new direction. Investors want the same options online when they decide what choices they want that is why we offer plenty at http://orlandoavenue.com/investor.htm

Now we just need to address how this all will look on handheld asap like the networks information is finding alot of new ways to present itself we can chose when and where.

Back in the mid-to-late nineties, they used the same argument to talk down Ethernet and IP in the world of industrial control (e.g. automated production lines, high speed printing presses, and, in my particular experience, entertainment automation).

Many customers were told that they could only solve their problem of predictable delivery (in this case of control messages – stop, start, go faster etc.) using deterministic networks such as Profibus, CANbus, RS485.

Nowadays (and for some years now), that argument doesn\’t hold any water any more. Mainstream and highly reputable engineering firms, such as Siemens and the like, have solved the problem using Ethernet and IP with their inherently non-deterministic approaches. Even using WiFi.

I see no reason to assume that the same won\’t play out for Internet TV. The advantages of a standards-based protocol such as IP are simply too great to resist in the long run.

Traditional ways of broadcasting video cannot measure up to the internet\’s flexibilty. That\’s why I believe the internet will win. CBS could never broadcast the entire NCAA Men\’s Tourney via old media. What about the Olympics? I think future media will become more interactive and enhance our way of veiwing programming.