Live Internet Television

Twitter is awash this morning with folks who are very disappointed that they were foiled in their attempts to follow the inaugural proceedings live on the Internet. A few typical comments:

Fifty stuttering web streams in this office and not one working radio or television? I hate the Internet. (@robot_operator)

internet streaming — FAIL — i wish i owned a television for the first time in my life (@gustinp)

i know now why the internet is not yet a viable threat to broadcast television. (@chrisgoodrich)

Christian Science Monitor photo

I am very sorry for these tweeps because I derived a huge amount of pleasure and satisfaction watching the inauguration with my family — still shivering from Aretha’s amazing performance of My Country ’tis of Thee as well as from the new president’s incredible speech.

But I am also feeling REALLY smug since I know ivi’s going to blow through bandwidth and piracy-protection barriers and make a lot of people’s TV-Internet dreams come true.