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Old 08-27-2010, 08:19 AM  
DamianJ
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Are you ready for the fall?

IPTV has been being talked about for years now. But this fall, it will start to happen. Why? Google TV and Apple's iTV, my friend. Yes, them.

September 1st Apple are set to announce their 'iTV'. A small storage-less, screen-less iphone 4 that will plug into your HDMI telly and be controlled via your iphone/ipad/magic trackpad. It will have apps. Those apps will be TV stations. So rather than pay a monthly fee to your cable company, you buy - say - the HBO app. And bingo bango bongo you've got HBO content wherever you want, whenever you want. All using cloud storage. Brilliant. But this is Apple and Mr Jobs says porn is wrong. Indeed...

But Google TV will be Android-based with no such porn restrictions.

And boxee has just released a new version with a FILM section with all streaming free, ad supported movies. They already have plenty of porn boxee apps. Most of the big tubes are ALREADY IN THIS SPACE.

Why aren't the content producers preparing for this next evolution of TV? That's not a rhetorical question. If I made content I would so have a boxee porn app already running and be ready to port it over to google tv. Your reason you don't do this is...?

Maybe pushing apps could be a new aff revenue stream? So you get a kickback for every New Sensations app you get someone to activate.

The battle ground is going to be so interesting. Google Vs Apple on your phone, your TV, your tablet, your PC, your media supplier...

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