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Is TV Next ?
As networks based on Internet Protocol inexorably expand and begin to subsume the local phone and cellular networks, what might the Net swallow next? Bill Gates, among others, is betting the answer is television. Phone calls and TV transmissions, after all, are very similar. Both can be digitized, chopped into packets and sent Internet-style. Standard TV shows fill up more packets--about 30 times as many, minute for minute, as a phone call.
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