Brian X. Chen for The New York Times:
Glenn A. Britt, the company’s chief executive, said in a group interview on Friday that the challenge for digital video was that there was no simple way to get Internet-based video onto the television screen. He wasn’t familiar with AirPlay.
Says a lot about the cable industry when the CEO of one of the most important players in the business has no idea how Apple’s technology is disruptive to his own.
Apparently he owns and likes Apple’s stuff. Forgetting that he’s a CEO of a cable-company, this speaks just as much to Apple’s failure to get AirPlay recognised as a “killer feature” for the iDevice/Apple TV combo.
Remembering that he’s a CEO of a cable-company? Well, that’s less excusable. 😛
“the challenge for digital video was that there was no simple way to get Internet-based video onto the television screen”
Insert ethernet cable into appropriate connector. Done!
(the interface to access it is still a Kludge, but the access is little different than cable…..