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TIVO and ReplayTV introduced us to a new way of watching television, conveniently time-shifted watching. A disposable recording of previously selected content allowed us to consume the TV broadcast whenever we wanted; maybe just 15 minutes delayed, to skip over commercials, the next day, or whenever we felt was a good time to watch it. Anyway, time-shifted watching has changed the way we watch TV today and with the exception of sporting events, long gone seems the time of appointment TV, were millions would tune in to the same channel at the same time to consume the same broadcast.
An even greater change is just beginning to unfold, what TIVO did to the time of TV consumption, devices like the announced Apple iTV will do the the content that we are going to watch. While TIVO and ReplayTV were put between the cable-box and the TV-set, iTV connects your TV-set to the Internet and thereby enabling your TV to display content not governed by TV Networks or cable providers.
Watching TV may soon involve subscribing to a show (not available on any broadcast or cable channel, like a video Podcast for instance), which is then downloaded regularly to a computer at your home and available for you to watch whenever you like.
A couple of days ago, I had the chance to pick up one of the first Intel-based Apple MacMini, which come with an Intel Core Solo processor, 512 MByte of RAM and a 60 GByte Hard-drive; the perfect machine to be converted into an TV-Internet Connector and to try out, how Subscription-TV would work for me.
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