glowria's Vison: The IPTV Superchannel

A Column entitled Is America destroying itself with entertainment gadgets? appeared last Thursday in the Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal. This article, intended as a very tongue-in-cheek look at the rapid pace of emerging technologies, has the following to say about the possibilities of IPTV:

The rough idea is that when computers and your TV set become one, you will be able to see any number of programs on any number of channels because, theoretically, the Internet is infinite. There's no limit to the number of Web sites that can be stuffed on it…

Sure, people can tune in 100 or 200 channels, but most people only watch about 15 of those and pay for all the others because they have to.

I talk with people all the time who have no idea what's on most of the channels they pay for. If they have trouble finding out what's on Channel 178 (I-Life TV), how is anybody ever going to know what's on 5,000 channels?

glowria agrees with Mr. Dorsey – no one needs, and few, at best, really want, thousands of channels. 

That’s where our vision and our mission for IPTV truly differ from the traditional broadcast/cable model. glowria’s IPTV solution is not to make available 5000, or 2000, or even 15 channels, but to give you just one, highly personalized channel.  A Superchannel.

You, the viewer, will totally control your Superchannel. The content - games, movies, TV shows, theatrical performances, music - will be totally customized to your desires. It’s what you choose, at exactly the time you choose. 

We believe the promise of technologies like IPTV is not to give you more, it’s to give you only what you want. 

That’s what an on demand Superchannel does.

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