NerdTV - Future of Television?

Hubby has been excited about NerdTV from the beginning (maybe even before the beginning) and I have to agree, Robert Cringely is the go-to-guy for history and biography in the techie world. What I didn't realize until today (sorry hubby if it got lost in amongst your many praises of the show) is this:

NerdTV is distributed under a Creative Commons license so viewers can legally share the shows with their friends and even edit their own versions.

Hubby and I have had many other discussions about web-delivered television... but the killer is always bandwidth. If you can afford bandwidth, you can put whatever you want on the web... NerdTV is backed by PBS.

But is it the future of television? I'm not sure. Entertainment Weekly had an article a while back on channel101.com which bills itself as "the unavoidable future of entertainment." Supposedly highlighting failed pilots and web-delivered content, most of it is craptacular to the nth degree. I would in fact question any network exec who greenlit any one of these things.

I think the future of television is much closer to the Simpsons' version where a show is re-tooled as Homer is watching it due to low ratings.