[opendtv] Re: News: What Convergence? TV's Hesitant March to the Net
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:34:20 -0500
BTW, I was debating this past Christmas whether to dedicate a PC for
just this purpose, to act as a set-top box for the TV/audio system. As
of today, you'd need a keyboard with IR remote to make it work
reasonably well. There might be a better way, though, e.g. a way of
storing the Internet sites ahead of time, and then selecting them via a
more normal TV remote gizmo.
Also:
If TV ads are annoying, then Internet TV ads are less annoying only
because they last about 30 seconds. If Internet ads become minutes long,
like regular TV ads, then the simple answer is, use a PVR to store the
Internet TV show, or PVR software on the PC itself, and fast forward
through the ads.
So we will have gone full circle.
Bert
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