By Josh Wein, FireceOnlineVideo, January 8, 2014
| Headlines from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are | heralding the arrival this year of two would-be milestones in | online video: a full-fledged online pay-TV service and | streaming 4K. For separate reasons, neither may ever | materialize into mainstream consumer products. | | I hope they do. As a consumer, I'd like to be able to buy (and | cancel) pay-TV service with the same ease and convenience of | adding or dropping a Hulu or Spotify subscription. And 4K | sounds great. I haven't seen the demos yet, but reports seem | genuinely impressed with its quality and prospects. In that | way, it differs from the 3DTV, which elicited far more | skepticism. | | To mix metaphors a bit, 4K is a field of dreams while the | online pay-TV service is still vaporware.
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