TV From The Internet

TechnologyReview: Cable television often boasts that it can deliver esoteric fare suiting nearly any taste. But it could be rendered obsolete by the likes of Bill Eason’s hog cooking class.
The North Carolina cook’s program — self-described as an “all-day, whole hog class edited down to 45 minutes on how to find, select, prepare and serve whole hog from the man who cooks several hundred per year” — will be available for a $1.99 download as early as next month on something called DaveTV.
It’s the type of show — niche programming to please any taste or whim — we’ll be seeing much more now that broadband Internet has finally become a more reliable conduit for the delivery of broadcast-quality video.
A number of startups are promoting this sort of “narrowcasting.”
Theirs is a vision of a video universe of endless variety that will dwarf traditional television and pay-per-view offerings even as new players — regional Bell phone companies among them — emerge to vie for viewers with cable, satellite and other providers.
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