Intel's Attempt At A-La-Carte Television Hits Delays

bill_mcgonigle writes "Updating the previous story, Forbes and Gigaom are now reporting that Intel is running an internal startup aimed at offering an internet-connected set top box with a-la-carte 'cable' channel subscriptions. They also apparently plan to record everything and offer all content on-demand. While some are skeptical that content providers will give up their cable cash cow and they've run into licensing problems already, perhaps the economic effects of cord-cutters will finally make this business model viable."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Like that's gonna work with all of the greedy content providers* licensing agreements. Just the other day I was at a woman's house and we were deciding what to watch on her Roku box. Hey, let's watch this on Netflix! Oh, we can't, that's DVD-only. Let's watch it on Amazon! Oh, premium membership (or whatever the fuck the problem was) only. It seemed that wanting to watch every movie that was a cult classic or otherwise worth watching held us hostage from some kind of restriction, which is inexcusable beacuse outfits like Netflix have had quite awhile to get their shit together and still have no native Linux client.

If Roku can't do it, what makes you think that Intel magically will?

* aka Jews

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