The Personal Computer Holds the Key to the Wonderful Future of TV
Posted by BAW on 29th Jan, 2010 in Movies and TV | 0 comments
“The end is nigh.” It may seem a little dramatic, but the fact is the entrenched order is on the brink of losing its grip on TV entertainment. We are looking at a new technological paradigm in the dissemination of content. While change can be daunting, this is an awesome leap forward for the consumer.
The media center PC idea allows you to integrate computer technology with the capabilities of your living room entertainment setup. This enables you to watch television content on your PC. The broad range of available content on the internet makes for a tremendously superior experience to the usual home theater arrangement.
A tuner card can be used to feed traditional television signals into your computer environment. It will enable you to record TV episodes and burn them to DVD. Many newer video cards can export content from your computer to your television. You can also integrate your audio files and images into your home theater system. The options are infinite.
Some have hypothesized that online content will render obsolete broadcast television. Why pay for cable or satellite TV service when you could just as easily watch the same shows online on your schedule? A computer can be connected to your TV without significant technical expertise. This seems to render the old cable box or satellite dish obsolete. Why watch your favorite shows on someone else’s schedule? Most TV programs will soon offer the same content online, and some of this material is already there. This means that there is an overlap between TV and web content. If you connect a computer to your television, you can watch much of the same content on-demand. As bandwidth speeds increase, the data quality will improve as well. This will only make it simpler to watch high quality internet content on your TV.
Since the majority of internet content is ad-supported, it turns a profit in the same general way as cable television. Looking forward, all content providers will be able to profitably offer their programs on-demand. This is a massive improvement over how we had to watch television in the past.
This also opens up more opportunities for the independent content provider. You no longer need to be able to afford a fancy television station and pricey equipment in order to broadcast content. The internet provides an environment in which the independent arts can thrive, and this new technology can deliver the fruits of their labor to the living room entertainment system. More competition in the creation and distribution of content makes for better overall quality.
In the end the consumer really reaps the benefits from this boom in new technology. The expense of a media center computer will continue to go down as newer devices come on to the market. The bandwidth capacity of our internet service providers will increase over time as well. Wireless high-speed internet access will soon be made available to rural consumers.
Fear not this atmosphere of technological advancement. The computer holds the key to the future of TV content. We will soon be able to see whatever we want whenever we want to. Wireless technology will improve the communication between all of our household electronic devices. We are on the brink of a serious paradigm shift in the way we consume entertainment.
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