In the movie about that extraordinary pig "Babe," there's a scene where the daughter-in-law gives Babe's owners a fax machine as a gift. There's a look of gratitude along with a certain incredulity at the explanation that "now we can send letters by phone!"
I had a similar sense of incredulity when my oldest son Axel called me from college and said he found a way to put digital television on the computer. But now that I see it, it makes more sense. TVU has taken a handful of programs and put them on the web in sort of a satellite-radio way for specific niche markets like ESPN, Opera, Hunan TV, and Deutsche Welle along with some others with broader appeal like Bloomberg, CNN, Fox, Disney, ABC and CBS.
If you were thinking of spending money on special software (or hardware) to get broadband, digital, global television programming on your pc, refer to "You Get What You Pay For" and try the free download from TVU.
