[TriLUG] OT- The death of TV?

[Kevin J.]

I'm being facetious, of course. There is a strong argument, however, that the Internet is not ready for IPTV so it's probably a few years away yet. Programs such as miro, Joost and ooma (a p2p voip phone system still in beta) are getting around the infrastructure (and cost) issues by using p2p architectures. 

Cable programming isn't going away for a long-time, but for folks who want more than the crap being passed off on cable TV, the Internet is the next evolutionary step in video.

News is so pitiful in this country that I don't bother watching any news programming on TV outside of The Daily Show and an occasional BBC broadcast. I can get much better news from the miro video player (www.getmiro.com) and YouTube. Check out www.blinkx.com to get a sense for what IPTV might look like in the future. 

Kevin
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:03:22 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT- The death of TV?

Yeah, I suppose death of cable TV would equate to death of decent Internet
over cable as well.  Regardless of how fast someone might get fiber to the
house in the RDU area I won't be in the first wave.  So I hope cable lives
on.

Greg

On 7/31/07, Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
>
> Kevin J. wrote:
> > Given the lack of any compelling content on cable TV, and the VHS(or
> higher)-quality
> > of streaming video, I'd give cable TV programming another 5 years at
> most (IPTV anyone?).
>
> You'll give cable TV 5 years to do what, exactly?  I hope you're not
> silly enough to be predicting it's demise.
>
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