iPad Will Change The Way We Watch TV

Tim Cox ()

iPad Will Change The Way We Watch TV

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Watching that MLB.tv demo on the iPad had me thinking: The iPad is going to add some serious interactivity to my live TV as long as they can figure out how to get live tv onto my iPad.

As we’ve seen, sport fans can benefit from the live stats and home/away team announcers, but how far can we take this?

Am I going to be able to vote my favorite American Idol on to the next round while I’m watching?

We’ll have to start seeing networks with their own apps and subscription fees like MLB.tv, but if Rachel Ray shows me a recipe for ribs and the iPad lets me download the recipe while watching- that’s what we in the business like to call a game-changer.

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  • George

    “Am I going to be able to vote my favorite American Idol on to the next round while I’m watching?”

    No because you can’t multi-task

  • http://urbanmainframe.com/ Jonathan Hollin

    @George: LMAO. Nice one!

  • pmoes

    Multi tasking is never going to happen and neither is Flash, deal with it. It’s over.

    O V A H (Australian reference to Kath & Kim)

    Live TV on ipad = Elgato EyeTV by the way…

  • Sonny Mooks

    Sonny has a slingbox (and obviously a slingbox app). It works fine with the iPhone, assuming this is one of the many apps that also works on the iPad, this iPad just became a heaven sent device….Its pretty much a portable TV now, for me at least. Not to mention, I also have the DirectTV superfan app which allows me to access my sunday ticket on the iPhone, and also assuming this works on the iPad, this is also killer.

  • Sonny Mooks

    I should also mention, that due to the WiiFi thing, I also have a verizon MiFi 2200, so I do use that with my iPhone, using that with my iPad (when I get it), pretty much opens everything up for me.

  • Chuck

    This MLB app might be the one thing that sells me on the iPad.

  • Brentoni

    The MLB app on the iPhone has been responsible for enticing TONS of baseball junkies to buy an iPhone.

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  • krishan Bhanot

    We can already watch most UK channels on the iPhone via this free webapp http://iphone.tvcatchup.com/