The market opportunity with pay-TV companies for Ubuntu TV looks potentially very attractive to me: * For pay-TV companies like Comcast and DirectTV, Ubuntu TV

The market opportunity with pay-TV companies for Ubuntu TV looks potentially very attractive to me: * For pay-TV companies like Comcast and DirectTV, Ubuntu TV is the only next-generation set-top-box solution that is truly neutral from a competitive standpoint (it's not controlled by the likes of Google, Apple, Amazon, etc., and it's easily white-labeled and put completely under the control of the pay-TV company) -- and it's inexpensive and available today. * Ubuntu TV is a vast improvement over existing pay-TV set-top-box software in use. Compare Ubuntu TV's UI at http://www.ubuntu.com/tv http://www.ubuntu.com/tv with, say, the UI currently offered by Comcast, the US's largest pay-TV company, at http://por-chr.cimcontent.net/ui/images/landing/tours/meetyourguide/screens.jpg http://por-chr.cimcontent.net/ui/images/landing/tours/meetyo... . (Speaking from experience as a Comcast subscriber, the screenshots understate how much worse Comcast's existing software is -- it's awfully slow and often unresponsive.) * Set-top-box manufacturers have no choice but to do whatever pay-TV companies want, because pay-TV companies control the last-mile connection to consumers. If a pay-TV company like Comcast wants wants Ubuntu TV with XFinity logos and blue colors, that's what the set-top-box manufacturers will install on Comcast boxes. * Ubuntu TV is compatible with a wide range of commodity hardware, including many legacy set-top boxes.