While many people do not really want to believe it, it is only a matter of time before more people are watching live TV online than on the traditional TV. Technology is advancing at great speed, more and more homes have the internet and quicker and more reliable broadband services are becoming available. So how long will it actually take?

The main difficulty in transferring the majority of traditional TV users to the internet is down to their perception of how the service will work and the cost. We already have the ability to transmit signals from your computer to a TV via an output cable, we already have some limited available services on the internet and we already know that delivery costs are a fraction of those for traditional TV. But educating the vast majority of the general public about these facts will take a little longer.

While the depth of program material on the internet is nowhere near that of traditional TV, we are seeing more and more new services coming online which allow shows to be played online after they have been shown on traditional TV. More and more people believe that it is only a short jump to live TV online.

If the likes of the BBC were to go down this route in the UK then the rest of the TV channels will have to move in that direction as well. We may then see a major change in the way that revenue is collected with adverts, rather that a TV licence, the likely favourite. One thing is for sure, the TV services that we have today will look pedestrian compared to the services which we should have in the next decade, and it will be a very nice experience getting there!