They don’t want to block their product, they want you to pay cash for thier product. There goal is 100,000,000 customers, not 100,000,000 freloaders.
They just haven’t figured out how to separate you from your cash yet.
Roku is nice, but still not as full featured as a pc based solution.
Hit geeks.com etc pc up a cheap pc with decent video card (dvi or hdmi preferred) and a wireless mouse/kb its a good soution too
I think eventually there will be serious production companies which intend to produce top-quality shows for Internet audiences. They will make money off add revenue just like the broadcast networks do now, but at lower ad rates. If the major networks ignore this, they will be doomed in the long run. The days of charging 20th century ad rates for TV commercials are ending. NBC, CBS, and ABC seem to think they are still the only 3 channels around.
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