Boxee: WebTV That Makes Sense. Is That Good or Bad For Big Cable?

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Mon, Jan 12th, 2009

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Boxee: WebTV That Makes Sense. Is That Good or Bad For Big Cable?

This year’s CES, like every year’s CES, was peppered with big talk about merging your PC and your TV together, led by a new widget initiative from Yahoo (YHOO). And my reaction was the same one I have every year: Why?

No need to go on about my lack of interest in this forced marriage, which the consumer electronics business has been trying to make work for more than a decade (see the 1993 Time cover to the right). Slate’s Farhad Manjoo has done it for me. If you’re pressed for time, the title will do: "I don’t want my Web TV".

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