As some of our friends and neighbors throughout METROmilwaukee know we are “all in” helping to make it possible for people like you and I to create and broadcast our own TV channels. Last year CES 2009 was the first year we began to “formally” hear the public announcements the HDTV manufacturers released as they sold the first generation of their products manufactured to display digital media transported using the WWW. This year CES 2010 proves what I’ve been beating the streets and talking about to anybody that I could get to sit still for a few minutes and listen to the facts:

June 12th 2009 was the date that will become understood as a historical date as it ended the era that the over-the-air TV broadcasters retained exclusive control of everything that could be displayed on a TV set. The ~$70 billion annual revenues they and they alone have exclusively controlled are now up for grabs. This is because they are now mandated by law to broadcast digitally and digital broadcasting and the Internet Protocols mean the same thing. In other words, in due time most if not all TV will be broadcast over the web in one way or another.

Its also another reason the local liars of ommission from Channel 4, 6, 12 and 24 et al. have not said a peep about the fact that digital broadcasting and the Internet Protocols fundamentally mean the same thing. So it has been to their advantage to keep the general public uninformed as they do in so many other regards with their slanted and biased “truth” and “facts” that come from their talking heads; 70 million reasons is a lot of reasons. So be advised if you want some too its up for grabs.

During the 2009 market the TV manufacturers released “crippleware” product imitating Apple’s “put lipstick on the pig” strategy by selling “pretty” but crippled HDTV sets that only allow access to the WWW through a walled garden: compelling customers to pay extraordinarily high prices for new HDTV sets that could only be used to tune in and view the channels they and they alone mandated.

Furthermore, access to any web app that could be used on their HDTV set still has to accessed through their walled garden as the HDTV cabal(s) that have recently formed are trying to create proprietary “app stores” in an attempt to wall off the web and create a private entry and exit points which is exactly what Apple has gotten away with because so many fools have funded them by paying for over-priced lipstick on a pig; iPod, iPhone and iPad neat as they are as they are what they are: over-priced prettied up lipstick on a pig.

CES 2010 held this past January proves without question that HDTV is rapidly changing as this video helps us all learn.

I’m certain (and hopeful) this trend to privatize the web will not last much longer if the HDTV goes the way the microcomputer was when it was first developed and sold changing for the better over the years. In due time anybody with the technical skills can now spec and put a PC or a server together themselves. But then again, the dumbed down consumer is clearly funding the lipstick on the pig and the future may not be so bright after all.

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