>> You don't understand why people would pay a moderate sum of money in
>> order to be able to watch movies or listen to music?
>>
> No, he doesn't understand how a service can offer near-HD resolution
> over the Internet.

Providing data over the Internet isn't hard. But providing HD video *in 
realtime* would seem difficult given that people don't have 
megabit-speed Internet access yet.

> Despite the fact that tv providers have had no
> problem doing 60 channels of the same thing over the same wires for the
> last 30 years (10 years in the case of HD).

Digital TV isn't 30 years old. :-P

Besides, it's no secret that a simplex broadcast channel is much easier 
to set up than a full-duplex communications channel.

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