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Seedersandleechers

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Fri Feb 3, 2012, 01:28 PM Feb 2012

Internet TV faces big obstacles

You say TV, I say Internet. Toe-mate-o, toe-maht-o.

Technology increasingly blurs the lines between computer, television, phone and tablet. Online video options grow almost by the hour. A screen, in the era of cyber choice, is a screen is a screen.

You can now plug the Internet straight into the newest TVs. You can buy gadgets that will bring the Web to your old set. Or you can use your phone, tablet or other electronic gizmos to tap into the Internet to give you TV on the go.

Still, to fill your screen with popular sports, comedies and dramas from the brands that dominate your television, generations-old economic models will have to be rearranged for the wild, wild Web.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/02/3407319/internet-tv-faces-big-obstacles.html#storylink=cpy


I don't even own a tv and watch everything on my mac. Here's the real obstacle:

"Commerce, meanwhile, hasn’t fully figured out the best way to make a buck off Internet video."




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Internet TV faces big obstacles (Original Post) Seedersandleechers Feb 2012 OP
or maybe the real obstacle is people who want something for nothing nt msongs Feb 2012 #1
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