Thinking about the future of TV

Terry Heaton got a sweet new net/TV/phone connection and writes:

I have never been more convinced that the business model of television is at serious risk and that broadcasters who continue to believe that their real competition is the guy across town (see Steve's excellent piece below) are on a one-way path to the tar pits. It is not a time for same-old, same-old, and reaching for revenue in a multi-platform delivery paradigm alone is not going to produce enough revenue growth to offset losses to our incumbent businesses.

Doc Searls has some great thoughts on this whole issue.

If you occasionally sit around worrying about video codecs, this BBC podcast about their Digital Media Initiative is worth listening to. WCCA is basically "the BBC of Worcester," and all this stuff is currently relevant to us, or will be very soon. (Via Boing Boing.)