For example, on satellite TV you get very fast satellite downloads for the core company Web pages, but slow modem access for the rest of the Web. You're likely to stick around the fast corporate area, exactly as you're supposed to do. Big Planet Finally, a few demographic factors are worth a mention. The main one is that TVs massively outnumber PCs in the world at large. It's hard to get exact figures, but there are roughly two billion TVs active in the world, and maybe a billion PCs, over half of which are in offices rather than homes.
TVs outsell PCs by a factor of about four to one.
And lest we forget, the current number of Internet users is less than 300 million. It's simply too expensive. But if it can somehow be incorporated into the ubiquitous TV, the Web's chances of spreading into shanty towns and adobe-walled villages around the world are very good indeed. There isn't one. There are two.