2008 - The Year Internet TV Became Mainstream
Will 2008 be the year we can finally drop our expensive cable bills? It’s sure looking like it with Joost constantly adding content, ABC announcing it will stream shows in HD, and media boxes such as the Apple TV becoming popular. Television networks finally seem willing and ready to distribute their shows on the web, telecommunication companies like O2 broadband are developing a faster internet connection, and hardware manufactures are finally making easy-to-use media boxes that will bring the web to the living room.
Google’s purchase of YouTube for $1.65 billion made YouTube a household name. The large deal also brought internet video into the mainstream. While YouTube is great for everyday people sharing their videos, its low quality stops it from streaming broadcast quality TV shows. Joost gets around the low quality and low bandwidth issues by using a peer-to-peer (P2P) network structure. Once the user base is large enough, the P2P network should lower Joost’s server costs and allow it to stream HD video.
Now that video content is available online and in broadcast quality, how are people going to bring it to their living room TVs? The answer is found in media boxes such as Apple TV, Netgear’s Digital Entertainer HD, and the Home Theater PC (HTPC). Apple TV and Netgear media boxes make it easy for the average Joe to form a home theater network between their TVs and computers. More tech-savy users can connect a PC to their TVs since new HDTVs come with VGA or component inputs.
The content is there, and the hardware is there. The year 2008 might just be the year people start dropping their expensive cable bills and start watching TV through the internet.
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The picture is of Joost on my 52″ HDTV. The picture quality isn’t that bad for standard def and internet tv.
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