Mediacenter...
I have realized something today. As I sat in my sofa listening to radio through iTunes I happened to glance over to my stereo equipment, tv, ps2, dvd player and digital tv box sitting beneath my tv eating up shelfspace. All of the above mentioned equipment except fot the PS2 could be intergrated into the mini. All the mini would need for accessing the digital tv channels that are encoded, is a slot for inserting the digital tv access card. There, a complete media system within one small piece of equipment, the Mini.
How did I come to think of this? It happened when I read an article about the Apple Intel switch in the swedish magazine Nätverk & Kommunikation. In it I read the phrase, "we are now living in the post-PC-era, an era filled with gadgets like iPods, mobile phones and PDA's" aso... When I read this I and glanced over to my shelf where the above mentioned products are located, I realized that the days are numbered for the stereo, dvd player and digital tv reciever. All of those will be merged into a product like the Mini (and let's hope that Apple is the one to give us this product). Who needs all of those products when they can be merged into one? Not me. The time of the home multimedia centre is upon us, the vision of the digital hub is being realized and the transition towards it will be with the help of corporations like Apple.
Also, the era for the home computer user, when it did matter what and which version of the OS you were running on your computer is also numbered. What we want today is ease of use and userfriendliness, and there Apple is lightyears ahead of any other OS. I suspect that the transition to Intel x86 is one of these reasons. What the ordinary user really want to do with his computer is read/send email, surf the net, online shopping, news reading, watch movies, research some interesting subject without having to switch from the tv to the computer. These features will be merged into the home media hub. I also forsee another feature, but that one I will not disclose until I've talked about it with some of my friends, or if at all.
We will also be able to move the tv and place the media hub wherever we want to with the help of WUSB (wireless usb). No more cables and instead more flexibility and movement freedom within you own media hub enviroment. Let's also hope that the WUSB media hub will be able to ditch the current "you must have a decoder for each tv for watching digital tv" way of thinking. Just buy a family license of the hub, and connect as many broadcast products you want within your home per person. The way of thinking one additional product per tv for example, is so 1980's. Embrace the licensing model amongst others, and scrap everything called "one product for each service or feature you want".
One other thing I also came to think of is that the days of regular radio broadcasts are numbered too. Who really wants to be limited to the bad selection of channels where they insist of feeding you mediocre music that you do not want to listen to? Not me, that is why Internet based radio will end the regular broadcast radio era. Here I can decide which channel to listen to, and what kind of music I'd like to hear.
The future is upon us, and it's all digital and you know know it.
How did I come to think of this? It happened when I read an article about the Apple Intel switch in the swedish magazine Nätverk & Kommunikation. In it I read the phrase, "we are now living in the post-PC-era, an era filled with gadgets like iPods, mobile phones and PDA's" aso... When I read this I and glanced over to my shelf where the above mentioned products are located, I realized that the days are numbered for the stereo, dvd player and digital tv reciever. All of those will be merged into a product like the Mini (and let's hope that Apple is the one to give us this product). Who needs all of those products when they can be merged into one? Not me. The time of the home multimedia centre is upon us, the vision of the digital hub is being realized and the transition towards it will be with the help of corporations like Apple.
Also, the era for the home computer user, when it did matter what and which version of the OS you were running on your computer is also numbered. What we want today is ease of use and userfriendliness, and there Apple is lightyears ahead of any other OS. I suspect that the transition to Intel x86 is one of these reasons. What the ordinary user really want to do with his computer is read/send email, surf the net, online shopping, news reading, watch movies, research some interesting subject without having to switch from the tv to the computer. These features will be merged into the home media hub. I also forsee another feature, but that one I will not disclose until I've talked about it with some of my friends, or if at all.
We will also be able to move the tv and place the media hub wherever we want to with the help of WUSB (wireless usb). No more cables and instead more flexibility and movement freedom within you own media hub enviroment. Let's also hope that the WUSB media hub will be able to ditch the current "you must have a decoder for each tv for watching digital tv" way of thinking. Just buy a family license of the hub, and connect as many broadcast products you want within your home per person. The way of thinking one additional product per tv for example, is so 1980's. Embrace the licensing model amongst others, and scrap everything called "one product for each service or feature you want".
One other thing I also came to think of is that the days of regular radio broadcasts are numbered too. Who really wants to be limited to the bad selection of channels where they insist of feeding you mediocre music that you do not want to listen to? Not me, that is why Internet based radio will end the regular broadcast radio era. Here I can decide which channel to listen to, and what kind of music I'd like to hear.
The future is upon us, and it's all digital and you know know it.
posted by StefanH at 10:02 PM
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