Watch Out Broadcast TV, Here Comes Online TV

It's good to see tv finally catch up to the new century

I've been watching TV exclusively on Hulu for the last few months now. It's the best! At least, it will be until they decide their users are hooked enough that they can up the number of ads they show significantly. I've already seen signs on Hulu that they plan on showing many ads in a row eventually. In rare cases at the start of a program, it'll say "Advertisement 1 of 2" at the top during the "this program brought to you by..." spiel. I'm pretty sure they already worked out how to ad as many commercials as they please based upon this.

i dare you guys to try and watch tv on the net over dialup.  There are still to many people that dont have fast enough internet to do this, and what is worse is that the more that people watch crap online, the more likely ISP's will want to go and bill people for bandwidth used.  From a IT standpoint, i clearely hate it.  I dont like stuff sucking down bandwidth, and this streaming tv stuff really hogs bandwidth.  At work we have this traffic blocked, and when people find other sites not filtered the entire network gets affected for internet speed since everyone shares the same internet speed.

It is nice to see this but it is to far ahead of its time for the avg person since the US is the worst in the world for developed countries for adequate internet access.  The city slickers have it best, and those that live in rual areas get the shaft.  Can you believe this, the fastest internet i can get where i live is dialup.  NOTHING else is offered sides satilite, and there are so many trees where i live  it makes that 10x worse than dialup. DTV is crap as well, the signal cuts out and voice and images are lost/garbled while analog has worked fine for years.  If i could watch stuff online i would but with dialiup i cant so come the time when analog tv goes away im just going to boycott TV since i refuse to have to pay money for something that has been free and to get a worse product in the process.

Yikes Drago, sounds like you need to plan a move! You sound like you're getting the cabin fever.

 While I feel your pain Drago I still believe this to be a good thing. IMO the more demand the more apt these isp's are to spend the money to keep up with technology and the demand. It also may have an impact on cable providers and they're ridiculous prices. The more people are watching online and the more competition the better the qaulity and the lower the prices. I could be wrong though it wouldn't be the first time.