Jeremy Charette
07-30-2005, 02:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20050729/tc_usatoday/andrewkantorcyberspeakthefutureoftelevisionliesontelevisionnotthenet' target='_blank'>http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20050729/tc_usatoday/andrewkantorcyberspeakthefutureoftelevisionliesontelevisionnotthenet</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Now imagine that CBS decided to archive all its shows at cbs.com a month after they aired on traditional television. You could access these shows through your PC, which was connected to your TV. Or imagine that a company produced a show or movie that they couldn't get a network interested in, so it they post the video on its Web site. You could watch it not by changing TV channels, but by telling your TV to go to that site. This is where we're headed - away from the notion of channels."</i><br /><br />Andrew Kantor poses some interesting thoughts concerning the convergence of the internet and television, but haven't we seen this before? What he's proposing seems to be alot like TV-On-Demand, which most US Cable providers already offer. Personally I hope that Kantor's vision <i>doesn't</i> come true. The internet is already overloaded, and bandwidth is at a premium as it is. Can you imagine if millions of households were downloading and watching HDTV quality video over the internet at once? It's a recipe for disaster.