I easily remember predicting it to my friends; there will be one big box in your media, living room and everything and that is everything will come through this.... thing. No more multiple cables and boxes, no more multiple remotes, and hallelujah, no more multiple accounts. Remember getting those little remote control caddies to keep all your remotes?

Well, it is finally here and there's has been an interesting blend of disparate technologies that have have made it possible. If you are a bit amused at all our technology and how quickly it changes our lives, it is worth noting that technologies with their own separate development path, and different audience have worked together to make this Christmas, the Internet candy on hulu TV Christmas.

First of all, the enormous extended bandwidth, the amount of information that can be delivered to us through high speed internet connections paved the way. We simply couldn't be watching television, live, at home without the remarkable bandwidth available through DSL and other broadband technologies.

The first attempts at viewing computer graphics through television and television video through computer monitors were quite clumsy but they certainly 'play nice' together now. When you hook up a laptop to a high definition TV the display is seamless, whether you are watching television, or the internet.