I’ve long been a fan of Delta. Since I live in Lexington KY, I grew up flying Delta. However, as I sit on a very crowded flight to San Diego, I’m beginning to reconsider.

First, allow me to say that I understand revenue drivers — especially if Delta is coming out of bankruptcy.

Ryanair is an Irish airline famous for cheap flights. The company subsidizes its costs and pulls in great profit by selling everything else — even advertising space on the outside of its jets. OK — cheap flight and pay for everything else. I understand that.

Delta, on the otherhand, has normal prices and sells everything. I’m on a cross country flight and have been asked to pay for the headset ($2) and the movie ($5). Should I want to play a game, well, that’s $5, too.

Maybe its not fair to target just Delta. But, instead of nickel and diming us, charge $10 more per seat and give us the headsets, movies, and food.

Packaging makes a big difference.

My children will not remember a TV without a Net connection. The boys are 5 and almost 2. By the time they are 10, all TVs will connect to the Net natively.

Sony just released a new TV that reads RSS channels. This means the couch potato will be able to surf from a La-z-boy with little to no hassle. One could do it, now, but it requires a bit of technical know-how.

Yahoo just cut a deal with an Internet TV firm. Brightcove delivers video for content owners and producers. Like IFC and National Geographic.

I’m sure many services will pop up over the next few years.

We already have provider options, but there’s a bandwidth issue. Depending on who you talk to this is an issue or its not. I don’t think it is yet because there’s not a high penetration of heavy bandwidth home users. As soon as its easy for the average person to access the content, then the home Net providers will want to raise rates.

The biggest issue I see is content. With the ability to spawn (and I use that term on purpose) new channels because one can, people may create a channel and not think about populating it. We all know what that looks like — Law & Order on 15 different channels. While Law & Order is a show in demand, some of the content for these insta-channels may not be as desired.

There will be a proliferation of insta-channels and a bunch of people who see low- to no-talent shows and be turned off. Then, like the web, people will create guides to channels and shows. Eventually, it’ll all balance out and we’ll wonder why there’s nothing to watch on one million channels.

(I bet Google owns the ad network for many of these channels, too.)

Very interesting information from Nick Carr:

Pacific Gas & Electric Company last month began paying corporate customers to reduce the number of servers they run. The giant California utility, reports Larry Dignan, is giving companies cash rebates for using virtualization software to consolidate their applications onto fewer servers. The rebates typically amount to between $150 and $300 for each server removed and can add up to as much as $4 million per site. Speaking at a conference today, Diane Greene, president of VMware, the leading virtualization vendor, said that “several other power companies” are considering launching similar programs.

I think this is a great move and look forward to more companies thinking about the impact on the environment.