There is an untapped market of people that feel they are too stupid to even own a PC. Microsoft was too early with the WebTV idea and too expensive. Other problem was that the WebTV stuff blocked the TV watching. It would be cool to have a separate PC that could send stupid videos from Gootube to the TV so everyone could watch some punk hurt himself.
Brian Kelsay
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From: Monty J. Harder Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:27 PM
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:46 PM, [email protected] wrote:
There are a number of lightweight, cheap computers that fit on the back of a monitor and netboot for this sort of thing. Cheap enough to rent out to people at a $5 a month, upcharge from the regular connection package.
Actually, it wouldn't have to be an "upcharge". If you can get TW to sell the Internet access at "wholesale" rates, in exchange for the volume and offloading of support and billing, you could offer a "free computer"; pricing the combined package at the same as standard RR rates. The question is whether the centralized management would make the support economical enough to be profitable.
In which case, TW would do it themselves.