Craig Birkmaier wrote: > NO BERT. This is NOT the bigger picture. > > This is the bigger picture for the cable industry: > http://blog.comcast.com/2009/06/on-demand-online-and-tv-everywhere.html You're confused, Craig, conflating two different discussions. Being able to get your cable programming anywhere, by making it available over IP, is a totally different discussion from the one of hyping up a cable remote iPad app. > The iPAD is a multi-function programmable device that will > be used for MANY applications. Yes, and every home will have a central music and TV server, and spectrum shortage is a thing of the past, thanks to UWB, and whatever else happens to be the hype du jour. Déjà vu, all over again. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.