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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 |
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| ...another interesting article : Comment 4 of 56 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Martin Blom on 30-Nov-2003 18:08 GMT | In reply to Comment 1 (David S Lund):
One big problem is that without dedicated encoding hardware, it's just not going to work.
I bought a TV card many years ago for my living room PC (HTPC if you like). Since then, I've been looking for a good software package that would allow me to actually use it for something else than manually recording TV shows with Virtual Dub.
I would love to be able to pause a TV show or skip the commercials, but NOT at the price of sacrificing video quality. The best package I've tried so far is ShowShifter, but the best it can do is quarter video resolution (384x288), and even then, MPEG artifacts are still crearly visible. Recording and playing at the same time (i.e., if you have used the pause feature) takes 60-70% of the CPU time on my (granted, low end by now) Athlon XP 1700+. Full resolution would require four times this processing power, and even more to get rid of the visible MPEG artifacts. Add to this that the deinterlacing doesn't work with any of Hauppage's stable drivers (it only works with the ones that bluescreen on my system) and it's clear that it's going to take years until I'm satisfied.
One would think that it would be easy to make it work, but none of the PC programs I've tried so far are anything else than toys. I've not tried TiVo or ReplayTV (not available here). |
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