TV Anywhere to push the borders of U.S. television

Jeff Baumgartner writes:

A Colorado-based startup plans to use high-speed connections to export live linear programming and on-demand fare from U.S. suppliers to viewers around the world.  ¶ TV Anywhere, based in Centennial, a city just south of Denver, plans to boot up a trial in early November, and, if all goes well, launch commercially in early 2007.  ¶  TV Anywhere will tap the Akamai distribution platform in order to place content closer to subscribers, and will use MPEG-4 encoding and digital rights management (DRM) systems from Microsoft Corp.  ¶  The service will be offered via a client installed to a PC, or through an IP-based set-top box connected to the subscriber's television set. ...

Link:  CED.  Thanks to Larry Bloomfield for the tip.  --Dennis