http://wekti.com/2009/01/07/the-internet-is-the-future-of-television-part-trois/ Geek stuff... Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:09:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://wekti.com/2009/01/07/the-internet-is-the-future-of-television-part-trois/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Greg Glockner Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:09:46 +0000 http://wekti.com/2009/01/07/the-internet-is-the-future-of-television-part-trois/#comment-75 Personally I find this to be a terrible idea. IPTV is changing much faster than most people replace their TVs, especially since these are the expensive large-screen HDTVs. I'd rather see a plain monitor that makes it easy to connect my external box. Let the external box - TiVo, cable box, satellite, Apple, Windows, whatever - support the flavor of the month for IPTV. Let me replace the box or upgrade its software. But please don't make me reboot the TV! Personally I find this to be a terrible idea. IPTV is changing much faster than most people replace their TVs, especially since these are the expensive large-screen HDTVs. I’d rather see a plain monitor that makes it easy to connect my external box. Let the external box – TiVo, cable box, satellite, Apple, Windows, whatever – support the flavor of the month for IPTV. Let me replace the box or upgrade its software. But please don’t make me reboot the TV!

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