IPTV
As I’m one of those “couch potatoes” that likes watching tv and movies I’ve recently begun a quest to find IPTV services that could expand the already large lineup of channels I can watch. Unfortunately, this is still new technology that some companies are testing but that is not available yet as a service to the consumers. Then only one working that I found was Akimbo (www.akimbo.com), but its offerings are mainly old movies and most of them unknown, plus a lot of independent programs.
Other than that, there are services popping up here in europe that seem more insteresting: two spanish services one from Telefonica (www.telefonica.es) called Ingenio and the other one called Superbanda (www.superbanda.net) that offer popular channels available traditionally only on Satellite. But you must be in Spain to sign up as the service is mostly tied to the very broadband service. Then we have another in Italy that has just launched from ex monopolist Telecom Italia called Alice Home Tv. This one offers a few tv shows and mostly movies on a pay-per-view basis but not mainstream channels. And once again the service is tied to the broadband service so you must be in Italy and subscribe to their DSL to get it.
From my point of view all these services are pointless unless everyone in the world can get it and thus enjoy foreign tv like never before. Let’s hope for the future.