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[bobs10]

Yes, cable and WiFi are very different. What I ment is what you surmised, namely that both will be included in the short run.

What I ment by the cable blurb is that the cable companies all seem to be more interested in supplying content than just connecting us to the internet at a very high bandwidth and speed. Personally I would prefer being able to select my content provider for movies, television, music or whatever comes down the pike. In the future I see streaming television as a URL accessible anywhere in the world. This is going to take a lot of bandwidth.

I would prefer it if cable just provided the pipe and not the content. Unfortunately. what will probably happen is that the cable guys will restrict the internet bandwidth so that you and I will be forced to use their programming. That's one of the reasons I hope WiFi takes off. A WIFI system would seem to be much more amiable to a Media Center PC in the home. Right now the cable guys are supplying TIVO type time shifting at the head ends. This fits in very nicely with the control freaks running the studios. The way things are going we'll pay for everything including things that are free now.