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T.V. AND P.C. WILL MERGE IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET (4/11)
By BILL GATES
http://math2.math.nthu.edu.tw/jcchuan/note/gates.htm
QUESTION: Do you see a merging of television and computers? Is it
possible that communications speeds could become so rapid that the
distinction between cable television and on-line services would erode?
Lee Bowron, Nashville. ANSWER: The distinction between communications
networks will go away. A single wire coming into your home or office
will deliver phone, videophone, Internet and television service. The
connections will be offered by telephone, cable television and
possibly even utility companies.. -> see more at URL
The Disappearing Computer
by Bill Gates
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/11-02worldin2003.asp
A few years from now, the average home entertainment system might not
look much different than it does today. But it will probably have an
Internet connection that enables it to download and play digital music
and video, display album artwork and song titles on the television,
and even interrupt your listening if an important message arrives. It
will have a central processor, disk storage, graphics hardware and
some kind of intuitive user interface. Add a wireless mouse and
keyboard, and this home entertainment system will start looking a lot
like a personal computer. Will people buy and use these systems in
large numbers? Absolutely. Will they think of them as computers?
Probably not...-> see more at URL
Dell: PCs still rule the roost
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-980037.html
Dell asserted the primacy of the PC as a digital media hub during his
talk Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show here. He was politely
refuting remarks made earlier in the day by Sony President Kunitake
Ando, who insisted that smarter, more versatile television sets were
about to rule the home... -> see more at URL.
Sony's Ando says TV will rule
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-980076.html
LAS VEGAS--Sony's future may be coming full circle with a product that
helped establish the company as a consumer-electronics giant. Ando
said that future televisions will be the center of home entertainment
networks, allowing consumers to access data and services found on
other devices connected to the network... -> see more at URL
PCs 'Centre Of Home Entertainment'
http://www.mori.com/polls/2003/packardbell1.shtml
Two-thirds of British people find the prospect of a single
entertainment system for watching TV, downloading films and music and
playing computer games appealing, according to new research from MORI
for Packard Bell. The survey shows 64% like the idea of a single
entertainment system, and of those three-quarters (75%) agree it would
be appropriate for a PC to provide this function.
The PC-TV Future
http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/computers/desktops/story/0,2000023504,20278095,00.htm
COMMENTARY--Will the standalone TV become a dusty relic, replaced by
integrated PC units? Only if marketers can give us a reason to care.
For more years than I can count, there've been moves towards
integrating the humble cathode-ray idiot box and the home PC. Products
have ranged from the generally awful (most PC TV-Tuner cards) to the
interesting but not available in Australia (MS Media Center PCs), and
all on the assumption that people actually want to integrate their TV
and PC habits, or can be trained to do so... -> see more at URL
Examination of Alternative Interactive Displays for the Merging of Two
Cultures: Computer Interaction and Television Viewing
Albert Badre, Kathy K. Baxter, and Martin Tuck
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/albert.badre/rwebtv.html
There are two cultures in our society today that some researchers are
trying to merge into one. Computer users form one of those cultures.
Like the rest of the population, they are familiar with and have used
a television. However, not all television users (the second culture)
are familiar with and have used a computer. Computer users actively
manipulate their environment to receive information. Television users
passively receive information. Finally, computers are manipulated and
viewed proximally while televisions are manipulated and viewed at a
distance... -> see more at URL
How MS will turn your PC into a TV station
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/0,2000048640,20274370,00.htm
COMMENTARY--Microsoft this week showed off a new "TV client" for
Windows XP Media Center Edition, which allows content stored on a
Media Center PC to be shown on, and remotely controlled by, a
television set. The problem is that the demonstration raised more
questions than it answers... -> see more at URL
TVs vie with PCs for attention
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/09/16/daily23.html
Half of active U.S. Internet users have a television and PC in the
same room, and nearly all Internet users with that combination look at
both screens at the same time at least some of the time, according to
a study by ComScore Media Metrix, an Internet audience measurement and
research company... -> see more at URL
Transforming Television
http://future.newsday.com/8/ftop0808.htm
The dial is going digital, with an array of new choices that promise
-- or is it threaten? -- to make TV an even more important force in
out lives. THE TV AGE is just beginning. The TV age is about to end.
Which is it? Maybe both. Fifty years into its prominence in American
culture, television is at a pivotal crossroads... -> see more at URL
The Fast-Forward, On-Demand, Network-Smashing Future of Television
Wired Magazine
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.10/tv.html
What happens when digital video recorders give viewers control of the
TV schedule, the content, and the ads? The whole world is watching.
--> see more at URL
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