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To: StanX Long who wrote (54752)	10/28/2001 5:21:53 AM
From: StanX Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

More driving tech demand. :0) Stan The Future of TV By Mark Fischetti November 2001 Coming soon to the small screen: technology that will enable you to watch anything you want, anytime, anyplace. All that's needed is a magic box. Illustration by Stuart Bradford United States Trails Japan, U.K. It's 8:30 in the evening. You sit on your couch, grab the remote control and click through your 42 cable TV channels. Same old stuff. So you suffer through the slowly scrolling program guide. Finally, you find a good movie—but it doesn't start till 10:00 p.m. Darn. It's then that you realize you could be watching that big soccer match in Rio de Janeiro, but your cable company isn't carrying it. A Richard Pryor movie would brighten your outlook, but you'd have to rent a video. One of those amateur Internet movies might be interesting, but that means sitting in your stiff desk chair staring at a small screen...and, oh yeah, the movie will take an hour to download. You smirk. After a half-century of television, you're still hostage to a few tired broadcasters. technologyreview.com