Death Bill for DVD's
Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder and Chief Software Architect, has predicted the end of DVD's within 10-years. Source: Yahoo! News - DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years: Bill Gates
This predication is already starting to shape itself in the increased subscriber base for broadband connectivity and the hunger for music and movie downloads. Alongside 3G, UMTS, Wi-Fi and MESH technologies, broadband, satellite and finally, the PVR (Personal Video Recorder) with the example of SKY+ and TiVo. Gates is not unfounded in his thinking. The need for portable storage is quite literally moments away from becoming obsolete.
Imagine the scenario: You get home from a hard day's graft. You slump into your favorite chair. Your wall replaces the picture of your kids playing on the beach with a menu. You muster-up the vocal power to form the letters, "T" and "V". The tone of your voice alone set's the system in to action. You are tired and stressed. You need some light humour. Quickly your entertainment system scours your personal profile and starts a download. The latest episode of Friends Re-United III begins to play. You didn't pick it. It's not necessarily 'on' a channel. It's not necessarily something that was recorded for you earlier today. TV companies have had to catch up with technology and viewer choice. Now you can watch what you want, when you want, how you want. And the technology will even do all that for you too. You just settle down and be entertained. You're going to enjoy it, the system knows that from constantly analysing your personal profile.
Whilst you settle down, your couch senses your heart rate dropping, and your laughter is being analysed. You leave the room for a moment to 'freshen' up. As you get up, Joey-Jr freezes in mid-sentence: "How you..." Your urine is analysed and on returning to your couch your program continues. "...doin'?" During this time, all your personal data is being analysed and finally a menu of movies, websites and games are being compiled for you (all of them owned by Microsoft).
We don't need to own everything. (Really we dont! - Matt) We don't need shelves and shelves of space to hoard technologically outdating storage mediums like CD's, DVD's, Games and the alike. There is not limit to what you have access to. If you want it and it's been crunched into a series of 1's and 0's, it's yours. The system even knows what you can afford, and what you feel comfortable in paying for your entertainment. You just relax. Your choice is waiting for you to refine:
You choose a movie and as you drift off to sleep, the sound and lights are dimmed and the air-conditioning altered. The movie is stopped. You can watch it another time, from the beginning or at the point that your eyes closed, probably on your mobile device on the way to work in the morning. As for now, night-night DVD, sleep tight little techie. It's all in the ether now.
This predication is already starting to shape itself in the increased subscriber base for broadband connectivity and the hunger for music and movie downloads. Alongside 3G, UMTS, Wi-Fi and MESH technologies, broadband, satellite and finally, the PVR (Personal Video Recorder) with the example of SKY+ and TiVo. Gates is not unfounded in his thinking. The need for portable storage is quite literally moments away from becoming obsolete.
Imagine the scenario: You get home from a hard day's graft. You slump into your favorite chair. Your wall replaces the picture of your kids playing on the beach with a menu. You muster-up the vocal power to form the letters, "T" and "V". The tone of your voice alone set's the system in to action. You are tired and stressed. You need some light humour. Quickly your entertainment system scours your personal profile and starts a download. The latest episode of Friends Re-United III begins to play. You didn't pick it. It's not necessarily 'on' a channel. It's not necessarily something that was recorded for you earlier today. TV companies have had to catch up with technology and viewer choice. Now you can watch what you want, when you want, how you want. And the technology will even do all that for you too. You just settle down and be entertained. You're going to enjoy it, the system knows that from constantly analysing your personal profile.
Whilst you settle down, your couch senses your heart rate dropping, and your laughter is being analysed. You leave the room for a moment to 'freshen' up. As you get up, Joey-Jr freezes in mid-sentence: "How you..." Your urine is analysed and on returning to your couch your program continues. "...doin'?" During this time, all your personal data is being analysed and finally a menu of movies, websites and games are being compiled for you (all of them owned by Microsoft).
We don't need to own everything. (Really we dont! - Matt) We don't need shelves and shelves of space to hoard technologically outdating storage mediums like CD's, DVD's, Games and the alike. There is not limit to what you have access to. If you want it and it's been crunched into a series of 1's and 0's, it's yours. The system even knows what you can afford, and what you feel comfortable in paying for your entertainment. You just relax. Your choice is waiting for you to refine:
You choose a movie and as you drift off to sleep, the sound and lights are dimmed and the air-conditioning altered. The movie is stopped. You can watch it another time, from the beginning or at the point that your eyes closed, probably on your mobile device on the way to work in the morning. As for now, night-night DVD, sleep tight little techie. It's all in the ether now.
posted by Matt Jones at 12:14
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