When will we see internet TV instead of cable TV?
internet is changing our life, and will change our life forever. Just as internet phone makes the phone-calling price much cheaping, internet TV will also makes tv channels much lower cost. Compared with classical cable TV channels, internet TV has following advantages:1. internet TV can be connected together with PC. Now we begin to replace CRT TV sets with Plasma, LCD or LED TV sets. All the new TV sets have high (1365×768) or full definition (1920×1080) resolution. For this high resolution, it’s enough to be used as a PC monitor. More and more families use this display as outputs of both personal computer and cable TV. So we can save money, just using only one LCD TV to watch TV and surf on the internet.2. Internet TV can be easily recorded. When your watch internet TV, you can record it immediately into your harddisk. And now harddisk price is very cheap, less than $100 for 1TB. 1TB memory can record totally 3 months’ TV programs! Do you really need to record that long time TV programs? 
3. With internet TV, you can watch the same TV channels you like wherever you travel all over the world. When you travel to China, you can still watch favarite US TV channels through internet, though they’re not broadcasted in the country.4. internet TV can offer cheaper price. Because internet TV can be watched by all the people in the world, so the cost can be cheaper if shared by more people.5. internet TV is more interactive. You can easily click on the program, to vote for or against the TV channels or programs.6. internet TV can help to unite the world. As the cultures and education introduced in the internet TV are watched by the people from different countries, people will understand each other more, and have more similar education and culture. Now in internet there’re some free internet TV websites. I’ve tested but I think low speed and instability maybe the major obstables to make them popular. One internet TV program may be hopeful, though it’s not free. The link is: http://tv.1000000p.com It’s called satellite TV and has over 3000 TV channels. And it’s cost only one-time fee of $49.95. I believe that as the internet speed becomes faster, the time that internet TV replaces cable TV will becomes more closer. I guess the time is in less than 5 years.
