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teduncan teduncan
 
December 22, 2008 09:07 PM

What is the future of Television?

What are the trends ahead?
Will there be Television as we know it in 20 years?
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slobu slobu
 
 December 23, 2008 02:02 AM
What Television? I thought there was just the XBMC! http://xbmc.org/
Just as Napster redefined how we choose to pay (and not pay) for music programs like XBMC will emerge for multimedia content. When my local cable provider stiffed me by taking away G4/TechTV I cancelled my service and watched G4/TechTV sans commercials from my XBMC box. The cable company lost a customer and G4 lost ad revenue. iTunes and Netflix seem to be emerging winners. TV's future lies somewhere between overzealous DRM (copy protection schemes) and consumer choice. I want my content my way. I'll even pay extra for the privilige. Take away my choices and rights and I'll simply choose another medium.
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bmlhailsto... bmlhailsto...
 
December 22, 2008 09:55 PM
Television on the computer. More reality shows, less sitcoms. The tv will be the same, but your computer will be on tv screens. Remember that old TV/Computer internet they used to sell. It will be like that and everyone will own a couple of tvs and computers that will all be networked together.

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easyeboy easyeboy
 
December 22, 2008 10:11 PM
In theory, the computer and the Internet should have come prior to the television. That's just my personal opinion, yet sites like Livestation.com are quite interesting and prove that the television can be watched on the Internet. Television will move towards the computer, or we will get to the point in technology where we can roll up a television screen someday, just as we roll up a poster. I also believe in the future of movie boxes like the Tivo and Roku player. There are plenty of links you can check out for television or online viewing of shows.
Source(s):
http://www.akimbo.com
http://www.slingmedia.com
http://www.vudu.com
http://www.digeo.com
http://www.tivo.com
http://www.apple.com/appletv
http://www.msntv.com
http://www.roku.com
http://www.tivo.com

Websites:

http://www.netflix.com
http://www.movieflix.com
http://www.ooyala.com
http://www.videoegg.com
http://www.vmix.com
http://www.movielink.com
http://blip.tv
http://revision3.com
http://www.getmiro.com
http://www.joost.com
http://vlaze.com
http://www.youtube.com
http://www.brightcove.com
http://www.zilliontv.tv
http://www.tvtonic.com
http://imagine-com.com
http://www.livestation.com
http://dnastream.tv
http://www.pyro.tv
http://www.liverail.com
http://www.veoh.tv
http://www.babelgum.com
http://www.coolstreaming.us
http://www.mogulus.com


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totalanswe... totalanswe...
 
December 23, 2008 04:04 AM
The TV and computer will converge into one living room device. This has already begun in large measure. The question is what will the software look like and how will we interact with it.

I run the media center software Boxee on my Apple TV. It's built on the XMBC project. It's got a terrific user interface and a social networking aspect to it. Even though Boxee has a lot of bugs and quality issues to work out, as soon as I tried it I immediately knew it was a glimpse into the future of TV. It won't necessarily be Boxee that catches on for the masses, but something like it will.

Boxee will also run on Mac OS X and Linux. It's not available for Windows yet. Let me know if you need an invite, as they're still in private alpha testing. They will move to open alpha testing after January 8th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwQG-4kT7FE


Check it out at http://www.boxee.tv
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seyonwerdn... seyonwerdn...
 
December 23, 2008 06:15 AM
The future of television from a technology perspective is OLED. Once OLED's can be made to work in a larger screen, they will dominate the market. They offer the best in contrast ratio, energy consumption, weight, and many other categories.

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mukeshksah... mukeshksah...
 
December 23, 2008 11:49 AM
IPTV

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