Craig Birkmaier wrote: > There is no misuse of the Internet here. The abuse is the current medium > of TV that is controlled by a handful of companies propped by politicians > at all levels of government. So, you would feel it perfectly okay that your PC vendor would collude with certain web sites, so that your PC would only have access to those sites? There is no reason why a TV vendor should have to be in collusion with Google or anyone else. If they are worried about providing conditional access, Internet Protocols already have a standard solution. The user, the owner of the equipment, buys a time-limited PKI certificate. You can have any number of these, for any number of sites. Just take a look at your web browser now, and see how many certificates you have installed. No reason why a TV cannot do exactly the same thing. > For the next few years nobody is going to solve this puzzle; The puzzle is easily solved, and Sony did so in its Vaio STB already. These supposedly "Internet-connected" TVs are not going to flourish as long as they try to wall up the Internet. The vendors can differentiate themselves on how intuitive and simple they can make the user interface for this TV over Internet service. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.