If you want the freedom to watch whatever you want, whenever you want, your cable company will have to buy a video-stuffing box. RGB Networks makes these things. Cisco is in hot pursuit. When ABC Chief anne Sweeney announced in April that her network would be offering hits like Desperate Housewives and Lost on the Internet for free, it was a blow to cable firms that had been hoping to sell those shows for a buck through their video-on-demand services. Viewers can now watch Lost over the air on Wednesday night, stream it the next day over the Internet or download it onto an iPod to watch on the train ride home. They don't need video-on-demand. They don't even need cable.
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