I’ve found sites that allow you watch some tv on the internet, but it is all channels you don’t want to watch (city hall, religion, weather). Plus, you can watch the news on AOL and in other places. But why can’t you get TV on the internet? I mean they can stuff commercials in there, so why not?
Low demand coupled with the small percentage of users who currently have high-bandwidth connections.
I don’t think this is the case, QED, because if you look at:
There is a very long list of websites that have internet TV.
A lot of US tv stations broadcast local news over the internet! Talk about low demand! But you can’t watch a network TV program like ER or Friends via the internet. I don’t know what the percentage of users who have high bandwith is, though.
I think there is some fear that if you put somethign on the internet, you loose control, so they are steering clear until it becomes apparent that they can benefit from it. Obviously low demand isn’t such a factor, becasue people are airing local news over the internet, and not Friends. (not that I like the show anyway)
With all the WiFI tech in cafes and thousands (millions?) of households that have DSL, I’d think demand for using your computer as a little tv while doing other work would be high. We’re the multi-tasking generation. (There are about 105 million households in the US, what percentage have reached cable or DSL?) Also the wwitv stations were what I mentioned when I said all I could find was news, weather and religion, etc. Oh well, at least I can avoid Fox/CNN news this way!
Maybe corporate America is conspiring to keep us from having yet another way to goof off at work! : )