Internet Television Starts Entering Homes: The Media Center PC

"The broadcast era has peaked and the on-demand era is beginning.

The cable and telephone companies are betting this means more video-on-demand over their proprietary networks, which may indeed be the case for a while.

But I'm betting that the Web model - with the link between content and the pipes that delivers it, severed once and for all - will ultimately prevail.

And a Media Center PC is the closest thing to that you can find today. It's a glimpse of the future."