"Twenty years from now, everyone's going to be getting all their video mostly from the Internet," says Steve Shannon, founder of Akimbo Systems. "You see it happening with music. You see it happening with phone service. Video is next," according to an AP story.
"It'll be the nirvana of video on demand," Shannon said. "And the only architecture that can bring that is the Internet."
But will consumers, many of whom already have tall stacks of electronic boxes by their TVs, open their wallets? Akimbo subscribers must first buy a $229 Akimbo Player set-top box, then pay a basic monthly service fee of $10.
Comment: Akimbo reckons that people will pay for this kind of content if they can't get it any other way, according to the AP story. Hm, like hard core porn for couch potatoes who are not much good with PCs?
