On Mon 10 Sep 2007, Thomas Bridge wrote:
> On 10/09/2007, paul at clubi.ie <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
> Thinking about this over the weekend, I realised there's a fundamental
> flaw in your assumption here that the mass market might start using
> P2P to watch Corrie.
>> The prevalence of set top boxes with hard disks mean that anyone (non
> geeky) who wants to watch Corrie will have it recorded on their set
> top box, and not be worried about what's downloadable over the
> internet. Indeed, modern set top boxes can be set up to
> automatically record all episodes of Corrie.
Worth noting though that many people abroad who cannot access British TV
would download Corrie on the internet if they could.
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