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Wow, that sounds really neat.

The downside is that it's unlikely that all of the 50 million Americans that use an antenna for broadcast television can afford a computer and internet access. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, and what content is on the public airwaves in five or ten years.

I think the problem there is not that those people will be unable to get their entertainment, but that they are being excluded from the Internet age. The solution is not to hold back the wheels of progress for the sake of their entertainment, it is to deploy Internet access in ways that are affordable and which are not locked down to any specific vendor. This is about more than television; people without Internet access are excluded from an increasing number of businesses, sources of education, and news (the non-entertainment kind).

I think they can offer this as an option, but not as the only option.

* Not everyone has high-speed internet to support high-def video * Not everyone has the latest and greatest internet-enabled TV * Sometimes you just want to turn something on and have it "Just work" instead of "Loading..."