The Future of Television

About a week ago I read an article about TV succeeding on the Internet.  I don’t totally agree with the author, however I don’t think cable or satellite is going away anytime soon.  What I do think will happen though is that everything will be fed through the Internet.  I can see a day when you have one cable come into your house and everything is broadcast over IP.  You as the subscriber can still decide what services you want like you do today Internet, cable, phone, but they will all be broadcast over IP.  The way I figure it will work is similar to At&t’s U-verse, you will have one line coming into the house that connects to a terminal, which is just a router of sorts.  From the terminal everything would be broadcast to the other TVs either Wifi or some other wireless protocol.  I would like to think that the converters would be built into the TV, so the need of an individual converter box would be a thing of the past.  All you need is an internet connection and all your content is there.  Currently the Samsung Led TVs already have a feature like this, and you can build a myth tv box that like wise will do this.  Though what I would like to see are premium channels like HBO, Showtime etc., allowing online subscriptions, Netflix has this service called Starz Play which allows you watch the Starz channel live on your computer.  A service like this will really take off when people can broadcast these services to their tv.  I could see something like this would beneficial to TV stations as they could track in real time the amount of viewers for a particular show which they could then in turn use to get advertisers, though I would think that advertisements would have to be more like Hulu or something.  I can’t imagine that the traditional way of commercials and the like would work on a computer tv terminal as a third party ad remover would be available quickly.  I know that there have been some similar products proposed, but as far as I know nothing has actually made it to market that does what I am suggesting, at least not out of the box.  What do you guys think?

-mikey