Are you asking about the PC's or the Internet? Obviously two separate issues.
MSFT doesn't agree. The PC is almost useless to me without the Net.
Be very watchful of innovations along 802.1 WIFI standards.
I like WIFI under 2.11b, unlicensed spectrum, but there are hurdles there. Maybe NOK will clear the trouble away with its legal department. NLOS will go forward regardless.
DVDR for movies over the Internet is not as important,
You must be kidding.
and likely will be held back by forces with a vested interest in copyrights.
The problem of VOD is bandwidth. Period.
Custom content, and special interest content will be first.
You are saying people will pay substantially more for that facility, but it was that kind of thinking which led ATHM astray.
Quarterly conference calls may become a very hot thing for those skilled in packaging a presentation.
Local machine storage isn't the way to implement this kind of functionality.
I own a series of copy rights to concepts called PREMISET where the promise of an extensible business is actualized by cyber space.
Are you holding back your competitors with your vested interest in your copyrights?
This leap frogs Video Confrencing.
Via SONET? Maybe FTTH?
It is the logical marraige of the internet with a going concern.
Are you really in the biz?
DVDR is the paper of the next age, iterations using higher frequency lasers will make recording any content easy.
In 1992 a guy told me that magnetic tape was the last word in sound recording.
SW to control, organize, arrange, manipulate, archive the different formats is an operating environment unto itself. Windows is a front end only to get to those functions.
I couldn't sell that functionality in 1994.
DVDR is the first writable storage medium that can handle the analog spectrum even though it's digitized.
Are you sure you're in that biz? All digitized data is a Fourier transform of an analog signal.
Nothing else comes remotely close. Issues of color, issues of frames per second, how they are synched these are not IT SW issues. These are complex sets of interactive elements that require wholly different suites of interconnected functionality.
Yes. DV, CD, and disk drive, may not last 5 more years. Why store locally on disk what will be storable in CMOS or its equivalent and remotely? It's a testament to die hard engineering that a mechanical device still exists in the PC. INTC still requires a fan to cool their bloat, but even that is on the way out.
Bandwidth is an issue, but that isnt the problem any more.
What planet are you on? Bandwidth bottleneck in the last mile, and now bandwidth bottleneck in the cloud, through the WAN, via the MAN, down the LAN, is killing Western Civilization and the tech stock market. |
