Now… as technologies are developed TV – culture is also changing.
Now we have wide and flat TV. And home theater system is getting usual and popular.
I guess in near future the way of watching TV or DVD thing will be changed again. We may use wall-TV or watch TV for using hologram thing…
What do you think about that?
Television is cotton candy for the brain
Kill your television
i hardly doubt that guest never watches tv, and that holier than though bs doesnt answer the question.
i think that, although we have seen it bf, the internet will be more integrated into the television, there will be a more web based features. viewing your favorite programs from some massive server somewhere. as for the physical tv… hmmmmmm
most people have at least one big white wall, i think it would be pretty efficient to use it as a big screen tv from a projector, or within the wall of course. i have read about paper thin displays for electronics, surely they could be used for televisions.
"]i hardly doubt that guest never watches tv, and that holier than though bs doesnt answer the question.
i think that, although we have seen it bf, the internet will be more integrated into the television, there will be a more web based features. viewing your favorite programs from some massive server somewhere. as for the physical tv… hmmmmmm
most people have at least one big white wall, i think it would be pretty efficient to use it as a big screen tv from a projector, or within the wall of course. i have read about paper thin displays for electronics, surely they could be used for televisions.[/quote]
Will we also have flying cars? god I hate people like you. There are some people who do not watch television u know?
fyi - I am guest!
I think that you are missing the content for the technology jo.
As we have seen with all design, expectations are shifting quickly from receiving information which we can interpret (television, books, magazines, radio, bad websites) to creating information and experiences ourselves (video games, weblogs, forums, our own internet sites, wikipedia and things not-yet-invented).
When framed with this shift in paradigm, I think it’s safe to say that TV as we have known it will be changing.
I find it hard to believe that we as a culture we still watch the boob tube. Especially over the past 10 years. Even Fox News website streaming is too small and one sided.
I wonder if Fox news media experts know what they are doing?
And for the American News media… It is pitiful how news media can conform our thoughts and opinions and sell toothpaist at the same time. Don’t get me wrong I don’t care to see Americans catch a bullet but the view typical Americans receive is skewed at best. Industrial designers are to be the trend setters who put products in front of trend setters so then they lead from a different perspective.
I download all my movies in French. Killbill2 is so much better in French.
“I think it’s safe to say that TV as we have known it will be changing.” Even my computer screen has better resolution that TV. It better change if it plans on competing. It all moves to slowly. I might watch Cable if it had a damd keyboard. I can barley switch the channels with Comcast it is slow and sluggish…. it does take 3 days to download killbill2 I French. Will Microsoft come out with a useless ergo keyboard for a boob tune. Lets call it ‘keyboob’
“Holograms are so eighties"
Most people don’t care about resolution D-E. Just look at sales of the HDTVs. What people want is content. I think the recent trend of “reality TV” was popular because people at home felt more involved in the show than a drama or comedy. I think TV will have to change in a more philosophical way than a technological way to survive as North American society evolves.
Great point - and I think the word content isn’t really the right word, then, is it? I mean, that’s a media industry term, and you are talking about something more fundamental about the…experience…see even that is not the right word since it’s loaded with meaning from another part of the media business.
Philosophy is a very provocative term - to consider the core chanes in motion video watching (I can even avoid the phrase TV) that have to occur - beyond technology, content, experience, etc. What will it all be about?
No answers here, but I like the question.
I am working on the future of television, or more importantly viewing of content. Patent just went in so won’t tell until later 
The only time I watch TV is in hotel rooms during business trips. I use it as a time machine to get to sleepytime. Too busy in my normal life to watch the channels. I do watch movies though.
unlike you, i was trying to add to the conversation, i feel that it is a waste of the internet when you, as so many people do in this forum, take a liegitimate point of conversation, a legitimate design inquiry, and say some useless crap like that. its in every thread. people humiliate the posters, they make smart, rude remarks, and take away from the forum as a whole.
i watch 2 hours of tv a week, other than that it doesnt come on. so i agree with the fact that television has become a horrible medium. their is no learning involved, just mush fed to the masses. but that having said, it is hard to believe that there are average americans that NEVER watch tv, of course you watch it from time to time. that wasnt the point of my post.
flying cars. i wouldnt compare the possibilities that i put out there randomly to flying cars. thats rediculous. and you have issues.
The future of content on demand (downloads) can only be made possible via new economic models. Expect more integrated product placement and cross-promotion… Then piracy may become irrelevant in the same way that Radio gives us free access to media.
I think that what Sony has done with the new movie media format for PSP is genius (as is the ~$10 per title prices) For now the lack of a hard drive and lack of writers will control piracy and people will pay up.
eghck…
the thought of more advertising in any form is nauseating. but you bring up a good point, very realisitc prediction of the effects of a trend like that.
also, i guess those psp videos go for like $2-3 in hong kong. perhaps theyll go down to around 5 soon here
Regarding the display technology, electronic ink is definitely not a “flying car.” Cheap manufacturing technology (like light-emitting polymers laid down on flexible materials with inkjet technology) will enable inexpensive interactive wallpaper in the near future.
With an entertainment PC driving the thing, you’ll be able to draw a box anywhere on the wall and tell it what to display: a channel, an image, a game, an application or whatever.
Now imagine taking this technology off the wall and putting it into carpet fibers on the floor. Your house can take on different themes!
What’s interesting to me right now is how we interface with “supersize” displays. This becomes really obvious when you play with the new 30" LCD’s on a Macintosh. Mac’s have always put the application menu’s at the top of the screen. That was fine on a small screen, but on a big screen that means that you need to actually turn your head and drag your mouse about a mile to access them (advantage: Windows.) Microsoft is the only company I know of that is specifically addressing this with new UI concepts:
In the UK they are considering allowing product placement in programs for the first time because of the advent of recordable digital tv where viewers can start watching a tv 10 mins after it began and fast forward through the adverts. I’m not sure if product placement happens in the US (apart from the obvious in films). Adverisers are worred about the impact of campaigns
I would ask Steve Jobs.
My guess is that the ‘next’ iPOD will be more of an iSHOW where ‘video media’ (tv, films, cable shows? etc) will replace ‘tunes’.
Would not surprise me if the ‘hard’ connection to the MAC (or PC) was replaced by satellite technology and program selection (recording) was not TiVO-like!
You mean like these Windows Portable Media Centers?
They sync with your Media Center PC (like a super-Tivo) so you can take your recorded shows on the go.
cg,
Yup, just like that, but add portability with regards to downloading (satellite?).
No more couch potatoes! 