The combination of high-speed Internet and inexpensive digital components allowed Aereo to pack 80 individual TV antennas and receivers on a circuit board and dynamically assign them to individual viewers on demand, then stream content to each subscriber.
Returning to the quote that kicked off this post, when an entrepreneur is able to identify an abundance of largely unknown supply and connect it with a steady stream of curiously hidden demand, new business can boom.
The revamped system, which is rumored to already have content lined-up from NBC, CBS, and Paramount, will supposedly store a customer's purchases on their .mac account's iDisk and stream the content on demand via Front Row 2.0.