The Digital Home in 2013
Superb new site, “The Industry Standard” has published a great series entitled, “The Digital Home in 2013″. It covers everything from networked garage doors to cloud computing to IPTV anytime, anywhere on anything.
Here’s the introduction:
“It’s 2013, and you’ve just come home from work. As you pull into the driveway, you reach into your pocket and swipe the screen of your smartphone with your thumb. Your garage door opens and the lights in your house turn on. The TV queues up the shows you missed while you were working late. Your favorite songs are following you from the living room to the kitchen. Then you stop. The phone blinks and warbles at you. The fridge says you forgot the milk.
It’s the HD/wireless/automated/streaming/sych’d/ready-to-entertain house of the future, and you’re living in it.
Welcome home.
In the following pages, you’ll be treated to a glimpse of the toys and technologies that will grace your home in the not-so-distant future. If you are like most people, you probably have already sampled some of them, but others — such as automated home control and personal applications of cloud computing — haven’t made it into people’s homes … yet.
In a few cases, you may be forced to reconsider some of today’s popular consumer technologies which will be headed toward obsolescence five years from now. To that end, there’s a summary of technologies that are destined for the scrapheaps of 2013, including Blu-ray and standalone desktop operating systems.
So sit back, strap on your sense of imagination, and get ready to step into the digital home of 2013.“
Are Digital Downloads the Winner of the Format War?
Ah, the spoils of war.
NewTeeVee thinks so. so does microsoft…people who own DVRs, Slingboxes, AppleTVs or 360s might also have an idea. it started with time-shifting…you mean I can ENJOY my favorite content WHENEVER?! sign me up. then, it became place-shifting…you mean I can watch my hockey playoff game at my mother-in-law’s at Easter or wherever I want? You mean, I can ENJOY my favorite content WHENEVER and WHEREVER! Ssssssmokin’!
Now, logically we should moving on to…yes, you guessed it…WHATEVER and HOWEVER.
WHATEVER — we should really have access to everything — first run movies (after 2 weeks theatrical exclusivity perhaps…and that’s GENEROUS), TV shows, Music Videos, Short films, Independent, Studio, UGC, Cartoons, News…all at variable, but “democratized” pricing).
HOWEVER — interoperable, HD + 5.1 standard (contingent upon sources), and scalable. the technology exists and there’s no reason for sacrifice in quality or interoperability.
The LA Times recently published an article on sony’s plans to launch a xbox live marketplace clone service on the ps3 by summertime ‘08. methinks it will have “classic” (aka “clunky”) sony proprietariness written all over it.
But it also begs the question – does Sony want to steer themselves down the digital download route when it just won an unbelievably costly, albeit politically bloody next-gen optical media format war?
How will or can they 1up apple and MS?
Full 1080p support? added value? faster downloads…more interoperability????? (ha, yeah right!)…
If there’s one thing i’m sure they’ll need…a hyper-efficient process from mastering to file viewing.
I’m at 10mbps with Time Warner Cable and I can be watching a HD feature from either xbox 360 marketplace or appleTV 1-2 minutes within selecting the download.
Don’t get me wrong, blu-ray will have a nice life, but I believe it comes down to one simple fact:
It is cheaper and more efficient to innovate CODE than HARDWARE.
On a sidenote, albeit completely unrelated…where’s Sony’s HD audio codec like SDDS-HD?
Johnny Lee Achieves Jedi Status
judging by the coos in the TED2008 audience, Johnny Lee has secured his role in history as one of the greatest lifehackers around. check the link for the his recent demo where he shows off a multi-touch digital whiteboard and an extremely impressive 3D viewer. EA will be using the technology on a game within the next 6 months. His site is also worth checking out:
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