[Tig] Google buys Youtube

[TSassoon at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/9/06 2:29:09 PM, pickettscharge at hotmail.com writes:

> It seems the infrastructure is being built to continue to provide more 
> content online than on air.
> 

IMHO the broadcast industry in the US is doing an absolute crap job of 
educating the public about over the air digital television. Most people don't know 
that it exists, or that there are mulitcast channels, or that NTSC is being 
turned off in 2009 (NTSC-only sets are still being sold!). I bet I'm one of the 
very few people on the west side of Los Angeles whose household is free OTA HD 
only, into three fixed sets, two LG 3410 HD pvr's and a laptop USB tuner-based 
pvr, only one of which is an actual HD screen. Is the NAB completely in 
thrall to the cablers?

Without paying any subscription fees at all, we get, I think, 63 channels of 
free streaming HD, including multicast. We do pay Verizon for DSL, but YouTube 
is good for getting those indispensible snippets of cable, Stewart and 
Colbert particularly :-)


Tim Sassoon
(Second In Command Cheapskate)
SFD vfx & creative post
Santa Monica, CA