How The Web Will Reinvent Broadcast Television

This tweet from Rich Meyer got me thinking about the future of television:

As computer screens get bigger integration of TV and Web is moving closer to reality. Soon cable will offer Internet on TV.

WebTV (which has since been rebranded and dubbed MSN TV) has been around for ages, and hasn’t made much of a splash. The issue? WebTV got it backwards. Rather than bringing the web browser experience to a television (boring), the broadcast television model of the future will be based on a registration and subscription paradigm that the web has used since someone figured out they could use table cells to pimp out a web page layout.

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