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| Posted on 30-Nov-2003 18:32 GMT by bbrv | 56 comments
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Here is a New York Times Magazine article about Apple, the iPod, marketing, product development and management.
We contend that this Community can produce a Super TiVo-like device that integrates the network into the use of the content itself. The Pegasos is building block #1 to any competent computing environment and the necessary tool required by the developer support enlisted to customize the platform for consumer use. A Pegasos computer is a desktop machine. A Pegasos computer enclosed in a fan-less VCR-like size case becomes a consumer product: a black box. The Pegasos black box operates equally well with a television screen or a computer monitor. The Pegasos black box could come with its own file sharing and downloading programs -- music, movies, video games – a preference is selected, a source found, the entertainment begins. The technology would be invisible to the entertainment experience. The consumer manages the experience through an easily understood user interface with a remote control or through a web browser and a keyboard for more sophisticated users. As the hub of the Home Entertainment Center high fidelity sound/audio can now be introduced through the 24/7 broadband Internet connection to bring existing home stereo equipment back into use. Here the Pegasos black box can be positioned to be a consumer product that would do to a TV set what MP3 did to music – any show any time.
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| Comment 1 | David S Lund | | 30-Nov-2003 17:42 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Christian Kemp | Registered user | 30-Nov-2003 17:53 GMT |
| Comment 3 | shut the f&^%& up | | 30-Nov-2003 18:08 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Martin Blom | | 30-Nov-2003 18:08 GMT |
| Comment 5 | Kermit Woodall | | 30-Nov-2003 18:11 GMT |
| Comment 6 | Johan Rönnblom | | 30-Nov-2003 18:22 GMT |
| Comment 7 | bbrv | Registered user | 30-Nov-2003 18:29 GMT |
| Comment 8 | Coder | | 30-Nov-2003 18:33 GMT |
| Comment 9 | Trizt | | 30-Nov-2003 19:06 GMT |
| Comment 10 | Coder | | 30-Nov-2003 19:09 GMT |
| Comment 11 | Anonymous | | 30-Nov-2003 19:10 GMT |
| Comment 12 | bbrv | Registered user | 30-Nov-2003 19:14 GMT |
| Comment 13 | bbrv | Registered user | 30-Nov-2003 19:19 GMT |
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| Posted by Trizt on 30-Nov-2003 19:32 GMT | First time I saw this kind of product was in 2001, of course x86 based working as VCR, gamebox, internet radio, mp3 player and so on. Can't remeber the companys name nor their URL, but was a swedish company. They had choosen to have a more exclusive "monitor" to their system, which made it quite expensive (like 50000SEK), but with the "home computer" program that the goverment have here in sweden, you could get it for a quite faire price.
I agree with Johan Rönnblom that the system must be quite similare to an already excisting system, like VCR or rather DVD-Ram. IMHO a system should be able to be worked from the remote, without that you must see the the graphical interface of the system (a LCD display that can display simple messages is needed). For those who want to use more advanced featrues, will be requiered to change channel n the telly and use teh graphical interface.
Another thing that is happening, is that more and more countries are moving over to digital tv, a nice feature that could be included is a "multichannel digital decoder", so that you can watch more than one channel at the same time without having two or more digitalboxes with a SIM-card. Of course you will need to be able to recorde from at least one channel at the same time as you watch anotherone on your MMBox.
I don't think that the box should use other protocols than those that are already there, just look at the KiSS DVD/DivX players, they aren't usefull in a linux/morphos/amigaos environment, as they requier a special software which is only for Microsoft Windows, so protocols like samba and nfs should be supported, and even ports of DirectConnect and ftp are really usefull.
As earlier in this thread it's mentioned, recording without getting commercials, that would have been great, I know that a few TVchannels uses some kind of code to tell when the commercial is starting and ending, nu clue about standards and so, but could work quite easilly if all broadcasters used it.
Read that Sony was working on digital amplifiers, so that would too be nice to have "builtin", so you don't need your old amplifier. Gosh, just picking up stuff here and there, but I think I could hast this up a little bit and say, that IMHO a such MMBox needs to be able to work as a VCR with some extrea features, but for the more advanced user, it should be able to take over all the other multimedia equipment you have in a home and it has to be able to work with new media like digital-tv and digital-radio. |
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