Craig Birkmaier wrote: > Yes Bert, we've all heard of Windows Media Center. But the fact > is that you are one of a very small and elite (or is it extinct) > group of users. You missed the point. I only mentioned Windows Media Center to demonstrate to you that you DO NOT need a truckload of remotes for TV and Internet TV. And I would never insist that you need Windows either. The only point I was making is, the problem of using the Internet for TV, and of bringing together any number of other sources, is solved/solvable. If Microsoft can do it, surely the CE vendors can hire their own Kon Wilms' and do it as well? People seem perfectly happy to do TV this way on the tablets. They can do it the same way on connected TVs, if the manufacturers would quit being on the take. > As Synofsky reports, viewing Media Player and content via IE are > very popular, but these are desktop, not living room experiences. Which is a totally inane comment. I've made it into a living room experience, and so can the CE companies, if they would wake the h*ll up. Flash Player, WMP, any kind of player, any kind of plug-in the congloms want to add. No problem. In the living room (den, actually). Hardly ever needing the keyboard. > But for some reason, the American TV viewer choose to pay for > first run and early access to content via an MVPD subscription. > Shame on US! And even that is available, with or without subscription. For content that is cable-exclusive, as long as that lasts, the congloms have allowed the MVPDs to stream it, right? If viewers long on with their MVPD username/password. Obviously not a good scheme, as these username/passwords seem to have been passed around freely. So my bet is, the congloms will keep trying to find ways of streaming online. The days of walled gardens are numbered. Again, do your own searching for online content. You seem to be stuck on this MVPD dependency, unable to think beyond it. Try! It's fun! 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.