You TV: Every Person is a Broadcaster in Broadband Land

From home movies to Hollywood blockbusters, your broadband Internet connection is prepared to deliver video.

I thought I was pretty clever back in 1999 when my sister and I used to send video-letters from one side of the country to the other. The novelty really hasn't worn off.

There's something quite intimate and satisfying about seeing moving images of your friends and family, their homes, their lives: it's a great way to stay connected when distance intervenes in a way left ultimately unsatisfied by letters and even still photographs. What did wear quickly on me was putting videotapes in envelopes and mailing them. And, inevitably, someone would want a copy of something, and thus begins the endless petitioning for the return of the little-league t…

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