And the Lines of Technology Blur Even More

In terms of entertainment, the television was always king (and movies as well, to make it a bit of a stretch).

One of the benefits of the Internet is that it also allowed access to many legal (and some not-so-legal) sites where entertainment material can be experienced. From the iTunes and the Napsters on music to all sorts of peer-to-peer network for pirated movies.

Now - it is not uncommon to be able to view archived episodes of your favourite episode online.

Although I haven't yet tried it, Rogers Cable has introduced an online Rogers on Demand service for viewing episodes and ordered movies via things other than the TV top decoder/converter.

This week, Playstation announced that one can purchase access to Major League Baseball games via the Playstation 3 and this has me thinking. With the PS3 we have a true entertainment device - not just a gaming machine. Not only can a wide range of games be played, but it also has a built-in BluRay drive and access to the Internet. Now with this MLB application, we now have streaming games. Let's not even get into how the PS3 can listen to music that exists on one of my three computers through the WiFi network.

I almost said that the introduction of the PS3 will almost make the television obsolete, but I guess that isn't going to happen until they have a build-in monitor!