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We're already pretty close at our place. At this point, a good percentage of our "TV" viewing is downloadable content through TiVo. Essentially, video podcasts that are downloaded by our TiVo and show up in our menu just like regular television.
Theoretically we could also be using the TiVo to stream our music, but a lot of our music is iTunes and it doesn't support music in the AAC format, even stuff that's just been ripped from CDs, not downloaded with the copy protection. We've switched and now rip into MP3 instead of AAC, but there's a good chunk of our library that's still in AAC. But theoretically...
We can rent movies through our TiVo via Amazon Unbox.
We can view photos.
We can surf the internet using the Wii.
A LOT of stuff is readily available entirely while sitting in front of the TV. While the delivery systems are changing drastically, one thing remains the same. If you want to be successful, make it so that you can get it on the TV. Even in our household, where technology is no stranger, I was not sold on the internet-delivered video as replacement for traditional in-home watching until it got to the point that it was easy to get it off the computer monitor or laptop and onto the TV.
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-TJ
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