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When will Internet TV fully arrive?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
January 9, 2010

When I was 19, I visited a college friend in Goodland, a town literally in the middle of nowhere on the western plains of Kansas.

I was amazed to find her family had something called cable TV. While we were making do with four over-the-air stations in varying degrees of fuzziness in the capital city of Topeka, they were enjoying about 20 crystal-clear channels. That's because cable first served to provide television reception to remote regions where broadcast transmissions couldn't reach.

Since then, cable TV swept the nation. Now, 30 years later, Internet TV is poised to revolutionize again how we consume video.

Advocate multimedia editor Robert Zavala is one of those so-called early adopters of technology. He explains in Sunday's edition how he and his wife made the switch to getting their TV entirely through the Internet.

In the next few years, look for manufacturers to make this conversion easier for the rest of us. In a Newsweek article, Daniel Lyons explains why cable giant Comcast bought NBC to anticipate this coming change. "The next generation — today's teenagers — will likely never sign up for cable TV at all," opting instead for Internet service, Lyons writes.

When wireless speeds increase to the point of being able to handle the nation's video demands, look for even bigger change. We live in dizzying and exciting times.

Who knew such change was sweeping across the Kansas plains 30 years ago?

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  • RedXIII RedXIII Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    internet tv has arrived with with hulu and other sites making daily commitments...there is also, software you can download to view channels from all over the world

    January 11, 2010 at 10:36 a.m.

  • AltonEaston AltonEaston Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    It is indeed a time of wonder; life is a wonderful adventure. We never know what will be over the hill.

    Here in Port Alto, we can not get decent radio reception. We have acess to a land-line through the last independent phone service in the United States--LaWard Communication. Thank God, we can receive DSL service from them. When it comes to television, we are limited to DirectTV or DishTV.
    Maybe LaWard will expand there Internet service to include TV.

    January 10, 2010 at 1:07 a.m.

  • tafoer tafoer Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    This is a wonderful thing for town folks, but I'm sure us country folks will be at the end of the line.

    January 9, 2010 at 2:32 p.m.