The extra-large, ultra-small revolution..
Posted : October 31, 2005 at 12:20 pm [America/Los_Angeles]
But something curious is happening to television: It’s simultaneously growing gigantic and minuscule, stretching across living room walls at the same time it slips into pockets. People can brag about their 60-inch plasma screens and their palm-size nanocasters in the same breath.
- TV: The extra-large, ultra-small medium
After a really long time, I am once again excited about Home Entertainment. Not so much for the content per se. This time it’s about the following:
- Content finally is becoming device and location agnostic in our homes.
- how we consume the content is also changing - as extra-large whoppers or ultra-small capsules - and every shades in between.
- Content is finally revolving around our lifestyle and not the other way around. If I want to watch TV, I can watch them when I want and where I want, not to mention slice-n-dice a (recorded) show thereby enabling me to keep or share just the relevant portion of an exciting or useful content.
Call it “Digital Life”, “Connected Home” or “Digital Home”, Consumer Electronics has had quite a face-lift in the last few years. And this new “everything connected to everything else” and “content goes with you where you go” lifestyle is going to show up in your life sooner than you think, if not already there.
Content - TV, Music, Radio (AM/FM/Satellite), Photos, Home Movies - will soon be set free (as in freedom and not as in free beer) and our lives will be much better off, I think.
- Anand
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