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The Personal Computer is the Bright Future of Television
Tuesday, 08 December 2009 09:45 | Written by Gregg Housh |
It's inevitable. The entrenched order will soon lose its stranglehold on TV entertainment. We are looking at a new technological paradigm in the dissemination of content. While change can be daunting, this is a fantastic leap forward for the consumer.
It's inevitable. The entrenched order will soon lose its stranglehold on TV entertainment. We are looking at a new technological paradigm in the dissemination of content. While change can be daunting, this is a fantastic leap forward for the consumer.
The media center PC idea allows you to integrate computer technology with the capabilities of your home entertainment system. This gives you the ability to watch television episodes on your PC. The broad range of available content on the internet makes for a vastly superior experience to the standard home theater arrangement.
A tuner card can be used to feed traditional television signals into your computer environment. It will allow you to record TV episodes and burn them to DVD. Many modern video cards will let you export content from your PC to your TV. You can also integrate your audio files and photos into your home entertainment system. The options are limitless.
Some have theorized that online content will soon kill broadcast cable television. Why pay for cable television service when you can just as easily watch the same shows on your computer whenever you want? A computer can be easily connected to your television without significant technical expertise. This seems to render the normal cable box obsolete. Why should you have to watch your favorite shows on the network's schedule? Most television programs will soon offer the same content online, indeed, some of it is already available. This means that there is an overlap between television and internet service. If you connect a computer to your TV, you can see much of the same content whenever you want. As bandwidth speeds go up, the picture quality will improve too. This will only make it easier to watch high quality internet content on your TV.
Since most internet content is supported by advertisements, it turns a profit in the same general way as cable television. Looking forward, all content providers will be able to profitably offer their shows on-demand. This is a dramatic improvement over how we were required to watch television in the past.
This also opens up more opportunities for the independent content provider. You no longer have to invest the capital in a expensive television station and pricey equipment in order to create and broadcast content. The internet creates a medium in which the independent arts can flourish, and this new technology can bring their finished products to the home entertainment system. Competition in content makes for better overall quality.
The consumer really reaps the benefits from this boom in new technology. The price of a media center PC will continue to go down as less expensive devices are created. The bandwidth capacity of our internet service providers will continue to grow over time as well. Wireless high-speed internet access is scheduled to soon be made available to rural consumers. As last mile technology grows, more consumers will join us in this technological revolution.
Fear not this atmosphere of technological change. The computer holds the key to the future of television. We will soon be able to watch any program we want at any time. Wireless technology will improve the communication between all of our household electronic devices. We are at the forefront of a major paradigm shift in the way we consume entertainment.
by GreggHoush
It's inevitable. The entrenched order will soon lose its stranglehold on TV entertainment. We are looking at a new technological paradigm in the dissemination of content. While change can be daunting, this is a fantastic leap forward for the consumer.
The media center PC idea allows you to integrate computer technology with the capabilities of your home entertainment system. This gives you the ability to watch television episodes on your PC. The broad range of available content on the internet makes for a vastly superior experience to the standard home theater arrangement.
A tuner card can be used to feed traditional television signals into your computer environment. It will allow you to record TV episodes and burn them to DVD. Many modern video cards will let you export content from your PC to your TV. You can also integrate your audio files and photos into your home entertainment system. The options are limitless.
Some have theorized that online content will soon kill broadcast cable television. Why pay for cable television service when you can just as easily watch the same shows on your computer whenever you want? A computer can be easily connected to your television without significant technical expertise. This seems to render the normal cable box obsolete. Why should you have to watch your favorite shows on the network's schedule? Most television programs will soon offer the same content online, indeed, some of it is already available. This means that there is an overlap between television and internet service. If you connect a computer to your TV, you can see much of the same content whenever you want. As bandwidth speeds go up, the picture quality will improve too. This will only make it easier to watch high quality internet content on your TV.
Since most internet content is supported by advertisements, it turns a profit in the same general way as cable television. Looking forward, all content providers will be able to profitably offer their shows on-demand. This is a dramatic improvement over how we were required to watch television in the past.
This also opens up more opportunities for the independent content provider. You no longer have to invest the capital in a expensive television station and pricey equipment in order to create and broadcast content. The internet creates a medium in which the independent arts can flourish, and this new technology can bring their finished products to the home entertainment system. Competition in content makes for better overall quality.
The consumer really reaps the benefits from this boom in new technology. The price of a media center PC will continue to go down as less expensive devices are created. The bandwidth capacity of our internet service providers will continue to grow over time as well. Wireless high-speed internet access is scheduled to soon be made available to rural consumers. As last mile technology grows, more consumers will join us in this technological revolution.
Fear not this atmosphere of technological change. The computer holds the key to the future of television. We will soon be able to watch any program we want at any time. Wireless technology will improve the communication between all of our household electronic devices. We are at the forefront of a major paradigm shift in the way we consume entertainment.
About the Author:
Gregg Housh is the Technician Manager at Geek Choice a Computer Repair company. Geek Choice solves computer problems such as: Slow computer, Virus Removal, and much more.