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Following Bill Gate's comments about Internet-delivered content overtaking TV in 5 years - I guess that means we'll see more online content in Media Centre in the coming months/years.
One thing Microsoft has going for it is size and the ability to deal with the big boys. By inference of these points, we should start seeing fair dinkum attempts at VOD and other online innovations.
Please share you opinions, knowledge and insider goss if you have any
I dunno about it taking over in the next 5 years, but we will see many advancements.
Not only in technology, but broadcasting companies deciding to go online. ABC has got the ball rolling here in Aus. Hopefully we also see some major advances in Australian broadband in this timeframe aswell.
I think Microsoft will definately add this online TV fnctionality into their next OS, 'Vienna'.
Why do they/we need to wait for another version of the OS targeted for 2009 (more likely 2011)?
Ii'm not saying we do, i just think that by the next release there will be much more emphasis on recieving media via the web.
Microsoft may even have their own channels etc set up. Who knows.
I'm not saying we do, i just think that by the next release there will be much more emphasis on recieving media via the web.
Microsoft may even have their own channels etc set up. Who knows.
Hmm that's thinking sideways. I like.
Local studios better watch out. Soon all they're income will come from selling local productions online. So.... McLeod's Daughters, Neighbours, Home & Away... ummm is there anything else?
The dawn of the Internet TV age will give rise to great imagination, creativity and independant film.
I think Telstra will really need to have all of Australia on ADSL 2 by the time this happens, I have a 1.5MB connection and still have buffering issues with streaming video.
Only in the last few years have we seen anything remotely 'fast'. I believe USA's minimum speed is 4MB.
Once this thing starts getting traction, it will be the next dot com boom. Given what we (forumers) all know, i.e. being ahead of the maddening crowd with respect to HTPC type hubs, we can either sit back and watch the world get rich while we wait for them, or get onto it and ride the wave of an industry in boom mode.
It will be impossible to stop. The facilitator is already in place but the chance for exploitation has not yet been recognised by the people with the money spawn it and drive it.
Install 'Thinking Brain 2.2' and get cracking folks, opportunity awaits. If ya ever imagined yourself as a media mogul, you probably won't get a better chance. Find someone you can access with money and start selling it to them.
ontiK.
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Once this thing starts getting traction, it will be the next dot com boom. Given what we (forumers) all know, i.e. being ahead of the maddening crowd with respect to HTPC type hubs, we can either sit back and watch the world get rich while we wait for them, or get onto it and ride the wave of an industry in boom mode.
It will be impossible to stop. The facilitator is already in place but the chance for exploitation has not yet been recognised by the people with the money spawn it and drive it.
Install 'Thinking Brain 2.2' and get cracking folks, opportunity awaits. If ya ever imagined yourself as a media mogul, you probably won't get a better chance. Find someone you can access with money and start selling it to them.
ontiK.
I've thought about it on more than one (or ten) occasions, but the problem is reliability. The trick will be to convince somebody that they pay you $2,000-3,000 and then don't complain to you when things go wrong.
Given the current conditions I don't disagree with you at all. 5yrs from now though and things will be very different.
I worked with music production & recording software from its infancy in the late nineties where the market was flooded with predominantly half baked software options and hardware that was buckling under the weight of any reasonable software. 5 yrs later and the software had moved forward about a generation per year and the hardware was sailing along. 10yrs on and the electonic music hardware market is utterly redundant. This was an industry that had a pretty niche market too.
Thats why I reckon that getting onto Free-to-Net broadcasting is inevitable, and the time is now to at least prepared to get in on the action.
ontiK.
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It is coming...slowly...and unfortunately is delivered over the net via wesites at the moment so online plugins for VMC are virtually non existant...which is a shame as thier is huge potential in this area.
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Joost and reeltime.tv as well as other online retail stuffs and online tv at www.tv.com for example.
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Re: More focus on online content?!
