I Want My MTV... PC?

Tsar writes: "MTV Networks is putting their imprimatur on a line of entertainment-oriented PC's to be available early this year. Targeting the college-age crowd, they'll have TV &amp radio tuners, DVD players, remote controls, and 'MTV-specific content.' CNN has this article on CNN's SCI-TECH page, but the original story was posted last Thursday on IDG.net. There's also news of MTV's impending digital music player, which uses DataPlay's 500MB matchbook-sized discs with built-in digital rights denial^H^H^H^H^H^Hmanagement."

Comments

Re:How will they use it?

[S-prime]

Sure it can:

0:00 Please activate this copy of Windows

0:10 *user enters information*

0:15 *MS recieves user's name, address, birthdate, SSN, credit card info...etc*

Re:How will they use it?

[garcia]

Warning: I was not a STAT major, but it my my belief that:

if they include specific pictures of nude music superstars (*cough* Spears *cough* Twain *cough* Hill *cough*) as wallpaper then I think that the 15s attention span might actually go up to 17 - 20s instead.

Some people might take longer b/c pictures would obviously have to be downloaded from www.thehun.com and sometimes depending on traffic that could take sometime, especially over traditional connections. That could bring the attention span all the way up to a *mind*-blowing 30s.

And just like MTV

[soupforare]

Because it's a computer, it won't ever compute.
except for maybe 15 minutes a day.
and only let you view Rap/teenybopper/fake-R&B related websites

Oo, maybe it will be like MTV in the summer and only show me scatily-clad women... Of course my current computer does that with proficency