The Last 15 Feet ...

For years there has been much commentary about how to get digital TV shows and movie downloads from the computer screen to the television screen. Bridging that last 15 feet has been quite difficult. Many of the world's top technology companies are hard at work on the problem.

Microsoft, of course, wants to be a dominant player at this. According to this recent Yahoo! News story, they have renamed their IPTV (which stands for Internet Protocol TV, but sounds like something that Bart Simpson made up) the much blander-sounding Microsoft Mediaroom. And while the renaming of a product generally doesn't make it work any better, it did give this humble blogger an opportunity to discuss Internet-based television with his sparkling new and minty fresh summer MC101 class.

Gabcast! Club MediaNote #54