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I bumped into a mate from CityLink yesterday who has moved onto the Terrace and has his home connected to Gigabyte Citylink ethernet. He now streams TV onto computers and into his TV’s anywhere in the house.
With the US pushing HDTV the gap between NZ and the US will be significant. New TV hardware will be HDTV (HiDef) but we won’t have content available through our regular broadcast channels in NZ for some time yet.
As Tivo and media center products break the synchronous broadcast model, so the gap between US TV and NZ TV will accelerate the adoption of Internet TV here.
Under this model you’ll pull down the shows you want to watch over the Internet, in HD format, to watch on your HD compatible kit.
With NZ TV unlikely to quickly invest in HDTV broadcast, the central control model will break down here quickly.
This is an industry that must be about to change significantly.
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