With the holidays looming and the credit crunch biting, is now the time to cancel your expensive electrify subscriptions? After many false starts, now seems to be the time you can seriously use the internet for TV viewing.
No longer do you have to use a laptop or pc in the corner of the room, you can now use your big flatscreen HD TV set . By using hardware and wireless services such as Roku, Boxee, Apple TV and Netflix. You can easily set yourself up and be watching the newest movies and hit Live Internet TV shows directly on your TV.
Cut Your Cable TV
Although millions are already watching television and video Pours via the Internet, only now is it becoming accessible to everyone. Websites like Hulu show streams and catch up tv from NBC, ABC, and Fox with a viewing figure number of over 40 million every month, this is more TV audience than every Time Warner convey put together, including CNN, TBS, and TNT.
If you look around the average house, you will have more and more devices that are internet enabled and capable of streaming tv and video. The next generation games consoles from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are all internet enabled and ready to stream. Most have services available right now so you can start watching online now. Add to the mix the plethora of set-top boxes such as Roku and AppleTV systems.
The real exciting development that opens internet tv to the mainstream are the new generation of Internet enabled TV sets complete with wireless Wi-Fi built in. These new gizmo enabled televisions come from all the big manufacturers such as Sony.
When you look at whats available for free, how long can you justify paying that expensive monthly cable TV subscription?
Rumours have been afoot that Apple was negotiating with TV networks for a subscription service for TV shows via the iTunes store. up to now, the imminent Comcast buyout of NBC may well kill the idea.
iTunes Subscription Service
Analyst of Diffusion Group, Colin Dixon commented that if Apple comes to a Comcast-owned NBC looking for a content-related deal, he believes “they’ll just say no.”
In other course, this could present a potential scenario where Apple could offer a subscription TV deal lacking one of the four big US networks. And still, there is no batten that CBS, Fox and even ABC are willing to deal.
Through the NBC deal, Comcast will also gain control of a number of prominent cable channels that produce original content, including USA Network, SyFy and Bravo. Content from all three cable networks, along with broadcast NBC, is currently available on iTunes.
But in 2008, the allure of 65 million viewers at iTunes proven too much for NBC Universal to stay away. After a year of petit mal epilepsy from iTunes, the network brought its content back.
