To: Road Walker who wrote (100841 ) 3/14/2000 1:32:00 PM From: Gerald Walls Read Replies (3) | Respond to
Can't play a game and watch TV at the same time, yet they sell a few game players. For that matter you can't watch two different TV shows at the same time, thats why most folks have more than one TV. add on to the TV . You're wanting to replace two independent high-usage devices with one device, making their use mutually exclusive . My wife's already upset that I tie up the phone line so much and now I have to tell here she can't watch TV, VHS, or DVD either? Either that or I have to pay for a complete second unit with either the tuner I don't need or the extra resolution and computer guts I don't need.At their essence, a TV and a PC are the same thing, a screen that displays information and entertainment. The guts and interface are presently different, it will be more cost and use efficient if they can be made the same. And capitalism loves efficiency. Eventually the products will converge, so that you can choose your poison from any device within the home. I imagine at some point there will be a server in a closet somewhere, offering all functions to monitors located wherever throughout the home. still wouldn't be able to watch two TV shows at once. Does this mean you'll need one tuner per screen in your house? Probably not, but you would end up paying for some that are rarely used.could access your Microsoft Word file through your big screen entertainment monitor but you probably wouldn't want to, or you could watch the DVD or HDTV on your computer interface station but you wouldn't if the big screen was available. This isn't much of an improvement over what we have today.
