Google TV

There is lots of awareness out there that there is a problem with the demand side of Fibre to the Home (FTTH). Why will people pay extra to connect to super high speed services? In many countries overseas the ‘tripleplay’ of Internet, Voice and TV is required to get consumers connected.

The question, for say New Zealand, is whether consumers will spend $50 for Sky + $30 for voice + $40 for Internet, or $99 for everything. In my view Foxtel/Sky’s back catalog, ABC/SBS/TVNZ and iTunes are important content stores that need to be delivered to the home for FTTH to work.

Google’s latest announcement also helps.

Right now this just won’t work in New Zealand. Until we have uncapped plans we will continue to enjoy what is being made available in other countries.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if TVNZ or ABC were one of the first national broadcasters to change from being a full service broadcaster – to focus on delivering great local content globally over IP?

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To me this is another step in the critical move of IP traffic from the small screened computer to the big screen TV. The big screen by its nature is more about video and less about text, and as we all know video drives capacity demands these days.