Pierre said it very well. With video, you'll have many events that you'll want to keep for later viewing, much like you keep old e-mails to recall useful conversations. If you have tons of disk space, you'll use it.
So, perhaps next year, many annual meetings will be delivered by video. New product announcements may come via video. Even quarterly conference calls could involve video. How many of these can you imagine storing and playing back later.
Also, if you find streaming quality is lacking, think of how perfect it would be to store it and play it directly from your disk drive.
That's probably about 1 percent of the possible uses.
Now, if "any sub-$1000 PC can handle RealPlayer", how does the power of this system compare to the majority of PC's on the desk top? Has anyone ever seen a survey that guesses what computers exist in the fields today? Only last year I read 75 million IBM 3270 terminals were still in use. I have a Pentium 133 and I'm not sure it will run RealPlayer, and even if it does run it, minimum does not give a quality presentation.
Regards,
Mark |
