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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 Martin Blom on 03-Dec-2003 08:31 GMT | In reply to Comment 7 (bbrv):
I see. But I think you're going to have great difficulty getting people to actually buy such a device, for several reasons.
As others have said, I definately think the box has to do something familiar, like record brodcast TV at least to HD but preferable also to DVD or CD.
One big problem with viewing files online is the bandwidth required for decent quality video. I have a 2.5 Mb/s line and I'd say you need more. MPEG4 movies at this rate still look far worse than television broadcast. The example you gave (moviebeam or what what is?) uses TV broadcast as transmission. Unless you plan something similar, bandwidth is going to be a big problem for several years to come.
However, a box that combined perfect, full quality recording and timeshifting, MPEG4 re/encoding and CD/DVD burning in addition to half-decent (say 384x288 at 1-2 Mb/s) online movie playback could be very interesting for lots of people. |
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