This pre beta test site has the look and feel of a mature myspace but is still lacking all the bells and whistles. It does have some very sticky features that get addictive and fast. I spoke with some testor from over seas and says that full commerce will be joining after the bugs are out and that this was the bigest secret in all of tech hungy Asia. I am on and keeping a close eye out. New features come on daily and beta launch (I’m told starts in early Dec. I will be curious to see what anyone thinks about his one. I am there and can be easily found by my name Kim Jolly.

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you would not need anything to watch TV but a single device - that device would be your choice. It could be a mobile device, a traditional looking TV like you see in your house today, or your PC.

that’s the idea behind it. big guns are not pushing for this for no good reason - it’s what is coming your way. you will eventually adapt to it as you adapted to the end of casette tapes and the entry of CDs or any other change in your technology.

it really has nothing to do with the actual content or what channels you get. but companies like this one are seeing the inevitable progression of this and therefore making solutions that fit in.

wireless, telecom, etc. are all progressing toward going over the IP channel. this is just another form of convergence we are seeing.

maybe you guys are hicks; but i live in san francisco, and for free..i get to watch german, itallian, russian, korean, mexican, spansih, whatever…plus the normal American tv stations.

second…if you want 600 channels, get a satelite dish.

what makes the internet special, is, that its not TV. Why do you think its becoming more popular than TV? cause people don’t give a shit about TV anymore.

i think this is like fan-boy gone wild.

This is from the website. Are these clowns pretentious or what?

But a lot of TV companies are working to create internet ready tvs - not “surf the web via your tv!” styles as in the past, but where your tv’s connected right into the IP channel and you watch stuff as you’d watch it traditionally - creating a familiar user experience (aka, tv versus watching it on your PC) is the key to increasing adoption. The features and capabilities with this are endless and going to be so cool. We’ve been doing this via our xBox for at least a year.

This space has been jumping for some time - major players like comcast have made announcements, rainbow tv (who makes bravo) has something in place - it’s where i feel you’re going to see a big disruption to interactive entertainment (aka, social networking) and an increase of passive entertainment users, which nobody seems to be focusing on right now. As more people are given choices on how to use the Web, things will change. Search services like this and CriticalTV are smart - Critical’s leveraging it to monitor global tv activity and provide it to the government, politicians, networks, etc. - it’s a smart move to generate revenue while we all wait for consumers to evolve and adopt.

As consumer acceptance of the length of internet video goes up, and the deployment of internet tvs comes in, this’ll all come together. It’s a smart place to play right now.

You have to try it out to understand why PC TV is compelling……connect your PC to your TV and fire up YouTube on the big picture, and then sit and imagine what this might be with a bit of development.

If you then try something like this TIOTI system, which is a bit more on the way to being an EPG, you start to get a view to where all this is headed.

We have done some of this stuff, I blogged about our experiences here

The Web will go to video as bandwidth goes up…it went from text to pictures to moving pictures to audio….

Whether TIOTI is “the thing” or not is too early to tell, but I’m sure someone will buy them

Jake, I agree that, at the moment, Internet is not yet a full-fledged substitute for TV. However, the keyword here is “yet”. I concede that there are a lot of people out there (indeed, billions of them, as you correctly pointed out) who do not have access to the bandwith speeds required to actually replace TV with Internet - however, I’m quite confident that as technology improves, the situation will improve as well.

With all that said, there is a market for streamed videos already, and that market will, I believe, grow in the future, so anyone investing into the sector now is probably making a fairly safe bet.

I personally barely watch TV (an hour a week tops) but one shouldn’t forget that some people in first world countries still don’t have internet, nevermind the developing countries which account for the majority of world population.