TV Finds The Internet: "Appointment-Based Television Is Dead"...

New York Times   |  JOHN MARKOFF   |   January 6, 2006 10:34 PM


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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6 - What would a world with television coming through the Internet be like?

Instead of tuning into programs preset and determined by the broadcast network or cable or satellite TV provider, viewers would be able to search the Internet and choose from hundreds of thousands of programs sent to them from high-speed connections.

At the International Consumer Electronics Show here this week, a future dominated by Internet Protocol TV, or IPTV, seemed possible, maybe even inevitable.

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