Okay, Bob, here's my wish list.
(1) as someone working in the multimedia field, who sometimes has to plan for a computer-based program being eventually print to videotape and shown on a television monitor, I would like a standardization of monitors for tv and computers. No worries about conforming to NTSC standards, no worries about colours bleeding, keeping everything to the middle to avoid being cut off, etc.(This is a tall order, indeed, and won't happen for a while, I know...I don't even know if it is possible, is it?)
(2) I would be willing to pay quite a bit for an extremely high resolution large flat monitor, with a wider viewing angle. From corporate lobbies to living rooms, I could see large, high resolution flat monitors exhibiting continually changing visual art shows, training programs, videos (the lines are really blurring here - they're all converging).
(3) Why not a flat sturdy monitor embedded in my kitchen wall (or countertop)where I can call up recipes and cooking videos? For that matter, why not anywhere at all? In portables...If the monitor was of a high enough resolution to enable long periods of reading without eyestrain, and I could access any literature (including less well-known, but excellent) writers via an online service, why not? I speak as one who loves books. Why be captive to what the publishing companies deem profitable to publish?
Regarding head mounted displays, my own opinion is they won't fly.
I would prefer a monitor to a projection device. (but I think large
is important - families gathered together over the encyclopedia, interactive atlas, etc. etc.)
Just a few thoughts...not sure if they're helpful--but here they are!
Regards and have a great weekend,
Barb |
