[mythtv-users] Boxee/Hulu?

[jedi]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:13:22PM -0600, Mitch Gore wrote:
> >> What I don't understand is what Hulu is hoping will happen instead.  Do
> >> they really think the wave of the future is people huddled around computer
> >> monitors, with a keyboard and mouse, to watch content?  Or are they hoping
> >> to spin off their own STB, to get another revenue stream?
> 
> Well, NBC made Hulu to compliment TV.  They found a way to take
> material they already own/produced and get some more revenue with it
> on a different screen (computer).  What they don't want is this new
> method cutting into the primary revenue stream.  Digital
> Downloads/Streams will not take over the standard method of Moves/TV
> (DVD, Blu Ray, Cable, Sat, OTA) for some time because the studios are
> not comfortable with the technology yet.  They dont want the "new
> thing" taking people out of what they are comfortable with.  Instead
> they are experimenting.  Boxee puts this content on the TV. So many
> people may stop cable and just use Boxee...
> 
> Its really not that big of a deal.  90% of the material on Boxee can
> be recorded on a PC with a $20 Tuner and antenna + 100 times better
> quality...HEY this is the MythTV mailing list for goodness sake!

     Any good jukebox solution (MythTV included) also opens up the 
possibility of the user making their own Hulu or iTunes and slowly
getting to the point where the broacasters and cable companies are
permanently irrelevant. The price of cable buys a lot of DVDs.