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Choices Expand for Watching TV on Your PC

The Wall Street JournalParks Associates estimates that 3.7 million Americans will pay for video online by the end of 2006, with that number rising to more than 51 million by the end of 2010. The Dallas research and consulting group predicts such payments will rise to $1.8 billion by 2010 from $111 million this year.

From the article "Choices Expand for Watching TV on Your PC," by Kevin J. Delaney and Bobby White.

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