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|  Web News: TV's future is here, although it needs work
Years ago, our futuristic fantasies involved robot butlers, video wristwatches and flying cars. These days, we would be happy to have a cell phone with no dead spots, e-mail without spam and the ability to watch any TV show, anytime we want it.  | Quote: |  | | | | | | | | | |
Actually, they are making progress on that last item. A company called Akimbo has a tantalizing idea. What if you had a TiVo-like set-top box, complete with a hard drive that could hold 200 hours of video--but instead of recording live broadcasts, you could tap into an enormous library of shows, stored on the Internet, and watch them whenever you liked?
It's a great concept. TV executives would benefit, because they would gain a meaningful afterlife for all the shows they have spent millions to produce--and then broadcast only once. You would benefit, too, because if you missed some episode of "Desperate Housewives" or "The Amazing Race," you could just hop over to your set-top box and download away. It would be like the video swapping made possible today by software like BitTorrent, but the service would be legal.
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