Shelly Palmer writes:
... Both Comcast and Time Warner Cable are working quickly to deal with the reality of Web-based broadband content providers. Their solutions don't go quite as far as one would ultimately predict, but the future path is fairly obvious. Within a short period of time, people will be able to watch content from the Internet in a convenient, emotionally satisfying, "lean-backward" way. This is opposed to the "download it to something, burn it to something or route it somewhere and watch it on your computer at your desk (or on your TV if you've spent the time and energy to set up a media center PC and an A/B switch)" mode. Sure you can do it now, but most people can't. And, truth be told, even the people who can won't bother very often; it's just too time-consuming. ...
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