Of course, with broadband on the immediate horizon for many, installation of these files will not take very long and can even be downloaded in the background, as a show progresses just as a media player buffers as it plays. That this amazing technology has not been implemented across the Web is due mainly to ignorance. As a developer of this technology, with no funding whatsoever, News1st has found it difficult to gain an audience. Some of the big players have plans of their own, even if they are lagging behind, as the UK Press Association demonstrated with the Ananova virtual newsreader, now allied with the biggest portal of all - Yahoo. As dot coms in general and e-commerce is particular, struggle to win sales and customer loyalty, they would do well to consider having macro agents virtual people as allies.
Nobody operates better in digital media that digital people.