Can a Plain Old PC Beat Google TV and Apple TV?

Google TV and Apple TV would have you believe "...we are now controlling the transmission ... the horizontal and the vertical..." in a pitch scraped straight from the intro to "The Outer Limits." But controlling the transmission, they're not. At least not yet. What viewers have now is an extremely fragmented space wherein only a few pieces can be viewed from any given content channel.

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