Media

Product Placement

The second season of HBO's The Mind of the Married Man introduces a new character: his TiVo. In "The Cream of the Crop", the Married Man's TiVo thinks he's gay. So he spends some time trying to convince TiVo that he's not, by recording Manly Shows

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categories: Media

Convergence, the Way It Should Be

I don't think this will happen any time soon, because folks are all hot and bothered about making special-purpose devices into multiple-purpose devices, and general-purpose devices into special-purpose devices. But in any case, here's what I want from my tools.

I want my data, anywhere.

You go to the camera shop. You ask a couple of questions about photography, and buy a camera. You bring it home. Your network sees it. It sees your network. Your computer general-purpose device talks to it. You take pictures. And the only thing you think about it is taking the picture.

You go to Radio Shack. You ask a couple of questions about sound quality and sensitivity, and buy an audio recorder and an external microphone. You bring it home. Your network sees it. Your general-purpose device talks to it. Your camera, of all things, talks to it. You scurry around the house trying to catch the rugrats while they're saying something funny. And that's all you think about.

What makes this possible? Common protocols.

What makes this impossible? Control.

11:41:19 AM # Google It!
categories: Industry, Media