Almost everyone agrees that broadcast TV will eventually go IP-only. Yet still very few broadcasters are particularly close to making it happen. That was one underlying theme running through an HbbTV roundtable featuring Everyone TV, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), RTL Deutschland, and Mediaset, during a session ostensibly about the role of HbbTV in an IP-only future. The problem, mostly, is not technology, but economics, at least according to one attentive audience member. They suggested during audience Q&A that the distinction between a “TV” and a “monitor” is largely a legal issue—defined by regulatory frameworks and tax treatment rather than any difference in viewing capability. If you strip out the broadcast tuner from a TV set, what remains is effectively…