Not new.. ! IPTV has been around for a long time. FireTV (I think thats the name) has been around since 2006 (I think).
Here's the real problem. People don't really want to connect yet another box to their home theatre. We've already got the AV box, Satellite, Blue Ray, XBoz, Playstation, AppleTV, etc... getting another box just for porn seems pointless especially when there's already lots of porn on services like Bell Expressvu.
More and more people are adding computers to their home theatre. The Apple mini Mac's are a perfect example. They're cheap ($500) and support wireless keyboards and mice (plus the new no-touch gesture controller coming out). Why not make a simple app for computers instead? Or even better, make an app for iphones? iPhones can display video and audio content in HD wirelessly to TV's via AppleTV boxes ($100, less than 5" x 5" x 1.5"). You can't put a porn app on itunes, but you can still make it downloadable from your site.
In fact... now that I think of it, anyone can make porn available for TV's this way. No IPTV required!
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