Video's Urge to Converge.

By Brian Santo, Senior Editor

IPTV is firmly on the telco agenda, but is it (or should it be) on cable's?

Ask cable operators about IPTV, and they'll tell you straight out that of course they can do it. Ask them if they have plans to do it, and the answers get laden with dependent clauses about definitions and contingencies and migration paths and transition strategies.

IPTV is an issue largely because it's the greatest advance in television since Philo Farnsworth developed his version of the technology. That's the general position staked out by A