TV v Internet?

This seems to be a battle of two final frontiers frontiers. Any couch potato who likes movies and entertainment knows how mean it is to compel somebody to turn the TV off (with the viewer's back on Asian Food Channel) while surfing the net. It gives any couch potato the much sought-after security that one is not missing anything good. But there may come a time where we had to pick between our two most beloved comforts - i.e. when Hollywood bigwigs accede to the demand of actors that they be paid extra should their work go online. (See http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090219/en_nm/us_hollywood_web;_ylt=Ar5FHs4d.bMItP6Se7uKd2L6VbIF)

So far, there seems to be no sign that the Internet viewing of shows will soon phase out TV viewing but the proliferation of amateur videos constantly getting huge hits in youtube or those videos in funnyordie.com seems to show that the Internet is only waiting for the right business model which can match the appeal (and quality) of shows produced and shown on the real tube. Remember the time when the radio people scoffed at the inventors of TV and insultingly asked who would care to hear AND watch anybody talk and talk for hours and hours? Well, look at us now. Times are indeed a' changin and I would not be surprised if people years from now will find it stupid if somebody tries to watch live video news via TV when you can watch that very same live video AND talk to your online friends simultaneously.