On 1/10/07, Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org> wrote:
On Wed Jan 10, 2007 at 09:43:11AM +0000, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
And it is difficult to plug Internet TV into your existing TV setup.
Can your average person plug a cable / satellite / terrestrial (in the UK, the only mainstream option here for self-install is terrestrial)? Power, TV, and antenna? Then why can't they plug in Power, TV & phone line? That's where IPTV STBs are going...
Simon
Especially as more and more ISPs/telcos hand out WLAN boxen of various kinds - after all, once you have some sort of Linux (usually) networked appliance in the user's premises, it's quite simple to deploy more services (hosted VoIP, IPTV, media centre, connected storage, maybe SIP/Asterisk..) on top of that. Slingbox-like features and mobile-world things like UMA are also pushing us that way.