Eventough MS makes bold asumptions like these, I still wish this one to be true.
The Tv shows have becoming pretty retarted in Finland, and we need to pay our TV channel provider YLE a yearly fee eventough every1 watches commercial channels that are not owned by YLE.

International TV channels would really be something. No more need to wait for shows to air in our home country. It could even be really versatile as its not too hard to make commercials country based and multiple subtitle options are already available on digital television broadcasts.

BUt for that to happen we need faster connections and for cheaper price.

Hey Viper7 try a software called JLC it is a international TV software. I see four channels listed for you there. It is free software.
The channels it list are YLE news, TV7, The Voice, and Santa's Channel. It may show more for you because my connection to your shows are farther away.
http://download.cnet.com/30...

Darkride66
I have not seen a more douchebag comment on this article than yours. Maybe they know more than you do. Maybe the know that right NOW THERE are increasingly more and more people surfing the internet. And some from their tv, and then instead of turning to tv mode just click the show they want. And watch it when they want to without paying a fee to have a cable box. All these things are tracked right there in the operating system. From the tv (or monitor) to the web pages and tabs and which are in forground and background. To is the mouse moving and how long ago since a kep was pressed. They know! Unless they have not queried their own data they known.

If the internet companies cap, and keep the cap when BPL arrives they will put the last nail in there own coffin. As I see it. If I can get 400mb a second for less than 29 dollars a month don't need a cat cable or wireless then I'm there already. Now if the cable company which will be SLOW even if they upgrade to 50mb it will still be slow and expensive compared to a $29 400mb connection. This technology has ALREADY been tested. The government is backing it and has it on a high priority list. We are now in a race, the main players are Ambient corporation, Telkonet, GE, main.net, Current technology, Verizon, Viscis investments,Con Ed, and Duke energy In that order.

The last 4-5 years I have surfed the internet WAY MORE than I watch tv per week. So has a few of my friends. a few years ago this was not the case. It is called polls. Cookies. If they know the average person watch so many hours of tv a week think how much easier to find out how much internet! You just do a time calculation! The cable companies track this I'm sure microsoft does ACCURATELY!

RE indysurfn

If you think you are getting 400 megabits/second anytime soon, then you are mistaken.

I really cant see it happening as soon as 2013....Like some guy said above, ISP's are no way going to allow people to be downloading their daily 5-hours+ of tv every day on current price plans.

I reckon ISPs are going to start offering WEBTV packages that are unlimited downloadeds but will cost loads of money, and people wont pay it.

Same with digital downloads.

They must have some crystal ball and psychics predicting the future at MS. Pretty impressive...

If you don't agree with me you don't agree with me. I'd think you'd leave the name calling to when you're outside at recess.

I simply has tried to bank on this before and it didn't pan out for them. You really think that considering the age of the population in North America that in 4 years all those baby boomers and older that make up the bulk of the population will have really replaced their TV viewing with internet viewing? They hardly know how to use Google. Yes they're using the internet more now than ever before, but sitting in front of a computer monitor surfing isn't going to beat relaxing on a couch, switching off and switching on.

It might one day, but not in the next 4 years.

You obviously have an opinion on the matter, maybe even a point in there somewhere. Too bad you had to go ruin it by behaving like a child.

""Hey Viper7 try a software called JLC it is a international TV software. I see four channels listed for you there. It is free software.
The channels it list are YLE news, TV7, The Voice, and Santa's Channel. It may show more for you because my connection to your shows are farther away.
http://download.cnet.com/30...

Using ubuntu, and seems wine cant properly play that software, but I do have some experiences of these kinds of programs. But none of them are really all that international as it would need to be to achieve what microsoft is claiming here. There are some good channels tough. Our "loved" Yle already streams most of their media on their website and so does Mtv3 and nelonen.

Internet has a lot of potential to advance in this direction, the ability to watch what you want when you want is one, the second is ofcourse the versatility on commercials and subtitles or dubs.
But I think we need some website that really pushes things foward like youtube has done for internet videos. Unfortunately not many tv channels stream their channels online, and if they do they usualy have some sort of restrictions to ppl living outside the country.