Was at IBC in Amsterdam, saw all the high tech wonders and marvels. Just about everyone is now an IPTV company or pretending to be, and there was booth after both showing complex diagrams and costly gear.
Came home and hooked up my dsl laptop to my big flatscreen TV, connected the PC headphone output to the stereo and dialled up YouTube - and watched 2 hours of old rock videos.
Priceless...you (literally) can't buy this old stuff, or I would.
And then it hit me - this *is* real time, real life VoD. No IPTV, no iTV, no TiVO.......just a pure IP pipe, a PC, and a TV. The content quality is not HDTV - far from it - but boy was it relevant. Just have to do a bit of fiddling to get the remote to work as a mouse and my couch potato existence can continue.
Sitting on my Long tail, have I invented the newest "new Media"......?
(Oh - and you can keep the Darkness...Mott the Hoople still rocks!)
