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The remote control must die; but what's next? One company at the apex of that question is Philips, which, unbeknownst to many onlookers, already makes remote controls for an array of TV makers, set-top box vendors and pay-TV operators like BSkyB. Philips now offers its own Wiimote-like gesture stick to screen makers like HP; (NYSE: HPQ) a motion-sensitive, qwerty-equipped uWand; candybars with integrated laptop trackpads and, yes, plain 'ol candybars for internet TV operators who still want them. All of this means the TV input segment is about to embark upon the same kind of innovative period of disruption and competing standards that the TV space is now wrestling with and which the internet itself before it first unleashed.

BSkyB's upcoming over-the-top internet TV service could create a new post-subscription ecosystem for pay-per-view and pay-as-you-go TV shows.

Supreme court case is in 11 days. Even if Aereo loses there's the "home" version - Tablo - to haunt Pay TV. It's only a matter of time... http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/nuvyyo-launches-tablo-air-tv-dvr-targeting-cord-cutters/#!EeaKZ

Holy Smoley, this is the in home version of Aereo only better. The pay TV war against Aereo could be irrelevant if this kind of technology takes off. NOTE: it's probably to geeky and expensive to go mass in it's current form ($219 box+monthly sub+separate external hard drive) but a cheaper all in one option could be a game changer.

Not the first decline but the first decline in the first quarter of the year which is normally the industries strongest quarter. Soon PayTV will only have an ever shrinking audience of Boomers.

The six largest publicly traded U.S. cable and satellite-TV providers combined to lose about 580,000 customers in the second quarter.

Holy heck, will their be anyone left actually broadcasting TV? I wonder if this has anything to do with the Aereo Surpreme Court case?

Goodbye TV biz.

"Unbundling" from Pay TV might not be all it's cracked up to be.