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Why TV Lost
theodp writes "Over the past 20 years, there's been much speculation about what the convergence of computers and TV would ultimately look like. Paul Graham says that we now know the answer: computers. 'Convergence' is turning out to essentially be 'replacement.' Why did TV lose? Graham identifies four forces: 1. The Internet's open platform fosters innovation at hacker speeds instead of big company speeds. 2. Moore's Law worked its magic on Internet bandwidth. 3. Piracy taught a new generation of users it's more convenient to watch shows on a computer screen. 4. Social applications made everybody from grandmas to 14-year-old girls want computers — in a three-word-nutshell, Facebook killed TV."
On the Internet, I can not only drive, but plan out the whole route, if I want.
Please give tell me the make and model of your car as well as your plate number so I can stay the hell away from you if I see you on the road!
comercials? what are those? oooh right those things that my mythTV box automatically skips over
TV what's that? a large low resolution for it's size monitor(1280x720 for mine)
Shaping my schedule to the TV shows? nooop... 1TB of storage + record when they show + watch when i want
If you cannot keep politics out of your moderation remove yourself from the Mod Lottery.. NOW!
i shit out an obama.
plop!
An LCD screen that size most likely will accept VGA or digital input from your computer without complaint. Just load up the video file and put the player into fullscreen mode.
On occasion I do sit on the couch with a laptop, but I currently don't have any reason to hookup a computer to the TV, since my electric, adjustable height desk with two high resolution monitors is only 2 feet away from the couch (I can see my TV from my desk as well as the couch). At some point I may rip all of my DVDs onto a RAID array and then I'd have a reason to hook up a computer to my TV, but other then that, why would I want a computer attached to such a low resolution display?
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This is like saying, this HDD has a low rate of failure but when it does fail it will fry your mobo, destroy all your data, set fire to your office and kill all your children, while that HDD, will just make a thumping noise as you back it up and while the failure rate is twice as bad, it costs a third of the price of the other HDD.
The "TV" in my living room is hooked up to basic analog cable which we watch about 20 hours a year and a PS3 which plays DVDs/Blu Ray about 20 hours a month (and games about 5 hours a month, lately.)
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Sooner or later, something like an eeeBox is going to get hooked up to the big TV in our house, and then it will play Hulu, etc. too. For now, we watch Hulu in bed on a notebook.
Oh, and there are 3 computers in the house which probably browse the web about 20 hours a day between them
I haven't watched anything "live" for so long now.. Myself and my gf are also both WoW addicts. We generally watch the occasional thing on Sky Player and BBC iPlayer on my laptop (on the desk next to us), and watch Sky+ recorded episodes of things while we relax/eat downstairs. I suspect if we had a sofa in this room, we'd watch all of our DVDs through my PC too.
The only thing stopping me from torrenting entire series of programmes in high resolution is my monthly download limit :(
The US is a socialist state or it wouldn't have an income tax.
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