Digital TV Quotes

I'm fired up about TV converter boxes.

Netflix and Hulu are just extensions of television that live on the Web.

Internet TV is replacing linear TV.

All TV is now digital. It's a platform ripe for innovation; we just haven't seen any beyond picture quality changes. That's a secular problem.

We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series.

Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.

Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

When we launched Hulu, everybody was saying, 'Oh, this is going to be a substitute for pay TV in the living room.'

The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the television set.

Verizon had just come out with FiOS, and AT&T had U-verse. We came up with a couple of options, and then our marketing people came in and said, 'What do you think of Xfinity?'

Television, cable, features are always out there.

Everybody's got cable.

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

Television and web are merging.

I want to make smart television.

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.

It's been possible for years to use a PC to watch and record over-the-air television broadcasts, and unencrypted cable television tuners have been available almost as long. But for a long time, you could only watch copyright-protected channels with a cable company-leased box.

We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the 'or' is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.

Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.