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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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| Posted by Trizt on 30-Nov-2003 20:23 GMT | In reply to Comment 17 (Christian Kemp):
Now I found the page, thanks to google (had first seached for "hemdator" while I should have used "hempc")
http://www.broadbandbox.net
"What is a Broadbandbox?
The Broadbandbox is the key in presenting all mediafeatures that broadband offers, right into your livingroom. The box also replaces all home-electronics including TV, Radio, Stereo, VCR, Digital-TV boxes, PC’s etc. The box can be used by anyone, including aunt Agda 87, with a simple remote control. "
For those who wonders who "aunt Agda" is, it's an expression in sweden to say that everyone is able to use something.
They offer the following system:
- Broadbandbox Showtime™
- 42” plasmascreen
- Powerfull soundsystem 5.1
- Webcamera
For 59995SEK (around 6666 euro), this includes 25% VAT. Most of the price is the 42 inch plasma screen. The system do not support a normal TV nor a normal computer screen, I guess they do earn the money on the plasma screen. |
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