[mythtv-users] Boxee/Hulu?

[David Brodbeck]

Jon Bishop wrote:
> That is ideal. Each content provider could have their own Hulu-Like 
> website with RSS feeds of all the available shows (with the single 
> embedded commercials) and we could use a system such as boxee or myth to 
> connect and view all these shows directly from the content provider. I 
> don't see this undercutting local brodcasters (they're already free to 
> watch) as much as it will cable and sattelite. Cable will have to become 
> a basic utility company - providing broadband, which will allow for all 
> TV and Communications. Until they figure it out though, it's just going 
> to be a battle.

This will happen at precisely the moment someone figures out how to make 
more money off it than they're currently getting from the cable 
companies.  Right now the battle is between "giving people on the 
Internet something for free" and "getting paid by cable operators to 
give people something."  Since these aren't charities we're talking 
about, the choice they're making is obvious and logical.