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The future of TV
- Thread starter rpm
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I think Mozilla with it's native support for ogg and the interactivity and immediacy it offers with scriptable interactivity will prove hard to beat. check this out:
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/06/video-whats-new-in-firefox-3-5/
Maybe a spin-off to Mozilla which will become commercial and TV-focussed
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/06/video-whats-new-in-firefox-3-5/
Maybe a spin-off to Mozilla which will become commercial and TV-focussed
I forsee the return of planned television watching for series and movies.
Before you go to bed / in the morning before you go to work you:
- Switch on your ACME player
- Browse to MyTV.co.za (no, this is not an available domain name)
- Click on the content that you want to watch tomorrow night.
- View the cost summary and accept the reasonable charges / profile applied.
- Click on OK, and leave the ACME on and connected.
The content is downloaded through the night from a locally hosted server, and is available to watch in about 2-4 hours (384 line, high definition). It is a wireless device running on the IBurst network, which has given up on the internet.
The only thing that will require live television is Sport. Even the academy awards can be delayed by 1/2 an hour. Live television will be broadcast on digital terrestrial TV for free, this kind of live transmission is ONLY paid for by advertising. Satellite transmission becomes too expensive.
What about Adverts ???
Aah ... here is where it gets interesting.
The downloaded movies/series' will be priced differently depending on the amount of advertising embedded into the content.
The ACME media player:
- has a 20GB USB-DRIVE built in
- is only upgradable (EPROM) through a central WEB based server requiring a login and password much like WoW does
- uses certificates and encryption to protect the website it's communicating with during upgrades
- the catch being that if your login and password is associated with behaviour that goes against the terms and conditions of the ACME company, then you will be banned.
Illegal versions of the ACME hardware will spring up, but new legislation will disallow ISP's from providing ACME type media downloads, meaning that the illegal ACME hardware will not have a source for data.
ACME content will still be downloaded onto a TIVO somewhere, and made available to download, but the bandwidth cost and potential problem with illegal activities factors will almost eliminate this form of media piracy.
Advertising can now be aimed at a specific person, which means that ACME Tyres in Ramsgate can place adverts on ACME TV that will reach the viewers in ACME Tyres' immediate neighbourhood, and cost a lot less to broadcast.
Individual programs will have individual market supply/demand controlled prices.
Before you go to bed / in the morning before you go to work you:
- Switch on your ACME player
- Browse to MyTV.co.za (no, this is not an available domain name)
- Click on the content that you want to watch tomorrow night.
- View the cost summary and accept the reasonable charges / profile applied.
- Click on OK, and leave the ACME on and connected.
The content is downloaded through the night from a locally hosted server, and is available to watch in about 2-4 hours (384 line, high definition). It is a wireless device running on the IBurst network, which has given up on the internet.
The only thing that will require live television is Sport. Even the academy awards can be delayed by 1/2 an hour. Live television will be broadcast on digital terrestrial TV for free, this kind of live transmission is ONLY paid for by advertising. Satellite transmission becomes too expensive.
What about Adverts ???
Aah ... here is where it gets interesting.
The downloaded movies/series' will be priced differently depending on the amount of advertising embedded into the content.
The ACME media player:
- has a 20GB USB-DRIVE built in
- is only upgradable (EPROM) through a central WEB based server requiring a login and password much like WoW does
- uses certificates and encryption to protect the website it's communicating with during upgrades
- the catch being that if your login and password is associated with behaviour that goes against the terms and conditions of the ACME company, then you will be banned.
Illegal versions of the ACME hardware will spring up, but new legislation will disallow ISP's from providing ACME type media downloads, meaning that the illegal ACME hardware will not have a source for data.
ACME content will still be downloaded onto a TIVO somewhere, and made available to download, but the bandwidth cost and potential problem with illegal activities factors will almost eliminate this form of media piracy.
Advertising can now be aimed at a specific person, which means that ACME Tyres in Ramsgate can place adverts on ACME TV that will reach the viewers in ACME Tyres' immediate neighbourhood, and cost a lot less to broadcast.
Individual programs will have individual market supply/demand controlled prices.
