The spaceship BBC is moving away from the earth at a speed that makes communication difficult. This week they are graciously offering to connect your television to the internet.
Hullo! Anyone home! There are already a significant number of ways of connecting your TV to the internet. See the previous post about the Boxee Box; a device which will be on the market a year ahead of the BBCs offering. Not to mention the increasingly numerous DLNA compliant devices that are available today. So the BBC is proposing to spend your licence fee to compete in the download on demand marketplace.
Why would anyone want to buy a box that tied them into a particular content provider? Well from the point of view of the content provider that could only be a good thing. In this respect Apple and the BBC have rather similar business models. The question is how gullible the public are.
The good news here is that the the BBC are so far behind the technology curve. The bad news is that ITV, Channel 4 and Five are supporting the venture. Hopefully Hulu will get up and running in the UK before Canvas becomes operational.
Monday, 21 December 2009
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