Soaps find new life in cyber world

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CNN's Mary Pflum finds soap operas are moving onto the Internet. Play video (QuickTime, Real or Windows Media)

(CNN) -- Like sands through the hourglass, soap operas have drifted -- and sifted -- into American living rooms for more than half a century. But time may be running out for love in the afternoon. The number of households tuning in to daytime dramas has dropped by nearly 25 percent in the past five years.

So are soaps' days numbered?

Industry insiders argue that soaps still have one life to live in another world -- the wired world.

CNN's Mary Pflum surfs the cyber soaps in this report.