Gerald, RE: TV/PC
I realize there are technology problems that need to be overcome. Ten years ago there was only www.nothing, look where we are now. To think that the Internet won't eventually invade the TV is naive, they are talking about toasters and refrigerators with web access!
As far as the costs, the PC on my desk, 10 years ago, would have cost $millions. The 19" monitor I'm looking at at the moment cost around $900 1 1/2 year ago, today half that. You take all the factories that are producing TV's and PC's, all the factories that are producing components, all the folks that work for those companies, and you reduce that overhead almost by 1/2 by combining the two products. All the expensive store shelf space, all the promotional budgets, on and on.
Sure, if you take a photograph of the world as it stands today, you can find a thousand reasons why it would be difficult to combine a TV and a PC, and probably a thousand reason why you wouldn't want to. But if you look at the Internet as a brand new, immature media, that has years until it reaches it's mature stages, then you have to guess that TV's and PC's as we know them now will change.
John |
