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silica

join:2004-05-20
Duluth, GA

Re: It will be a hard sell

I agree completely. I have only one program per week that I really want to see. Otherwise, I just want to channel surf to see what's on and stay on what strikes my fancy.

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Re: It will be a hard sell

What if you could see a breakdown of every program being watched internet wide, it's popularity, a vivid description, and watch a quick preview with a few clicks of a living room keyboard or remote?

There are ways to implement a system like this that I think would appeal to the channel surfer segment.
older dog
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join:2005-06-09
Norwich, NY

Re: It will be a hard sell

I had questions, on how the channel surfer segment would be accommodated.
I also had a concern on how a new show would get noticed.
Your system would work for both of these
Your method would be a step up, from the system we have now.

Karl Bode
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Re: It will be a hard sell

I think to see a real-time view of what everyone else is watching, ranked by popularity, would revolutionize TV (kind of what already exists via Bit Torrent). Users would dictate quality, not marketing departments.
older dog
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Re: It will be a hard sell

I have this image of Edith Bunker, asking Archie whats on, since we can get, all the best shows now.
Archie replies: Its all crap, always has been, always will be, dingbat.

This could make enterainment production explode around the world.
I can see where big media has a reason to be scared.

chaser7016

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Monthly Bandwidth Allotment could be the solution! Consumers pay for X amount of bandwidth per month(various plans would be offerred) and any overage consumer would pay a la cell phone bills.

P2P could become legal n profitable as any n ALL copyrighters would get paid for each download from consumers bills. The net neutrality issue would be null n void, as the ISPs make their dough off consumer monthly bandwidth activities and dont care what IP service run on their network, the more the better! This scheme would create a new and more profitable free market for the US economy and in turn the global economy as other countries follow our lead!

Channel surfing will evolve where it will go from channel to channel to surfing categories that are webpage like with thumbnails that come to life when the remote puts them in focus. Viewer then clicks thumbnail to go full screen.

Could this be the future?

Karl Bode
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Re: It will be a hard sell

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Channel surfing will evolve where it will go from channel to channel to surfing categories that are webpage like with thumbnails that come to life when the remote puts them in focus. Viewer then clicks thumbnail to go full screen.

Could this be the future?
I really think you've nailed it. If the incumbents don't develop this system, someone else will. I know they're terrified of being "dumb pipe" providers and nothing more, and frankly I think they should be.
peerimpact

join:2005-11-07
Londonderry, VT

Re: It will be a hard sell

P2P is legal and NBC\Universal is about to launch a movie andd TV show download service .

»www.peerimpact.com/nbc.html

Kxpuc

join:2004-05-04
Houston, TX
could easly even make promo commericals for shows by genre you can stream, then aftewards, or even below the stream, have links to the shows
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