re Consumer PC sector, some quick thoughts.
One subsector I've thought a little about is PC
video editing hardware. If a person figured out
which company will roll out the best $300
device in time for next Christmas (for editing
home movies, generating mpeg's and avi files).
I tried to get that thought going on another
thread, but seemed to be no interest.
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I would assume devices would be firewire or pci
adapter cards...but maybe the high end could
end up as stand alone machines running BeOS?
Just a thought. In general I've lost interest
in anything related to PC's or consumer electronics,
seems to be a glut in that sector as everything has
become commoditized.
All one needs to see is how the price of video
accellerators is constantly falling to realize
the cutthroat nature of the PC industry. It was
not long ago that 3Dfx lead, well now nVidia is
the price/performance leader, and you know next
year it'll be somebody else. Not here to defend
TNT versus Voodoo versus Rage etc, but it's a
good example. Too much product, the average
consumer cant sop it all up. If the upgrade cycle
were every two or three years I'd play, but annual
upgrades are crazy.
Anyway, everybody has a nice PII by now, I should
think home video editing will be a good way to
sop up some of that computer power, most folks
don't play games and you don't need the latest
Intel chip to surf the net. Video editing is the
perfect add-on to that home PC. |
