Most of those answers are unclear for now. However, we can look to the lawyers for insight on the last issue mentioned. (Not a good sign).
Companies like Time Warner are working to place limits on the Internet by regulating how much Internet consumption you take in, and then charging fees to the distributors of the content, which would essentially weed out the little guy who couldn’t afford the big time fees.
Ok, but no matter what happens with that, there are still other issues for consumers to think about. Mainly, the question of if we even want to 
watch our favorite shows through our monitors and laptops. There’s no doubt that we’re perfectly ok with watching user generated content (UGC) videos. Last time I checked, it was said that 11 hours of footage is uploaded to YouTube every single minute.
Yes, I said minute.
But UGC is different. It’s mostly short-form, not like a television program that requires more time to view. The question remains. Will consumers want to watch a 2 ½ hour movie on their monitor, or will they still crave for the couch or cushy chair?
For more about television type content, look at online video portals like Blip.tv, YouTube, Hulu, Magnify, and Joost. These portals are pumping out a litany of professionally produced “TV” content and delivering it to us with the click of a mouse, not a remote control.
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It’s not just TV!! Everything that is electronic, and has any function to do with communication will all blend together and become your entertainment package. Your phone, TiVo, stereo, iPod, and computer are slowly becoming one carry it around with you object that you’ll plug into your TV. The iPod touch is already there, you plug it into the dock an use a wireless keyboard to surf the net, and watch all this on you 54 inch plasma.
I want be be there when they start to manufacture LCD wall panels that can produce sound an video, and the device that runs it all will be your cellular phone!!!! Imagine 10 foot wide by 7 foot tall monitor that is actually your wall. You take you cellphone out of your pocket, plunk it in the dock on a end table then grab your multifunction remote to surf the web, watch the programs you want that you TiVo’d on your phone. Video call a friend, the camera is a function built into your LCD wall.
If you don’t believe it’s coming the please step back, cuz this bullet train is coming real fast.