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Neo65 · 10-11-2007, 03:27 AM

I don't want to speak ill of Allan Bell, as he has a job to do at Paramount around the next-gen interactivity side of home media.

Unfortunately, his parallel of youtube with interactivity on HDM reflects the exact problem with why someone pushing SA-CD will never be able to understand the mp3 crowd. The reason why myspace/facebook/youtube crowd likes those forums has nothing to do with PQ or AQ, some of the best rated clips in there have the worst PQ.

The reason why interactivity on packaged media has a tough road ahead can be best learnt from the lessons that WebTV and the cableTV taught us. When in comes to interactivity, a remote (or even a keyboard remote with a TV) cannot beat the web browser experience.

That ability for social networking on facebook, the search engine around youtube, those things cannot be replicated around a HDM settop built around any single movie.

Take pdfs, midi, gif, pbm, jpeg, mp2, mp3, mp4, 3gpp, avi, rms formats, these things all have to be replicated on a settop box to be able to browse all these sites, something webTV found to be a daunting task with each software upgrade while the internet grows.

Today, we have downloadable plugins for VRML, video-conferencing, play-shifting, things that would be just about impossible to do on any settop box (except the PS3 and X360).

Are they doomed? Who knows, but unless Bell spends more time thinking things through, he might find that the youtube analogy is just the tip of the iceberg of misunderstanding his market that could sink his grand plans. And I say that respectfully.

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10-11-2007, 03:27 AM	#4
Neo65 Senior Member Member since:Sep 2007	I don't want to speak ill of Allan Bell, as he has a job to do at Paramount around the next-gen interactivity side of home media. Unfortunately, his parallel of youtube with interactivity on HDM reflects the exact problem with why someone pushing SA-CD will never be able to understand the mp3 crowd. The reason why myspace/facebook/youtube crowd likes those forums has nothing to do with PQ or AQ, some of the best rated clips in there have the worst PQ. The reason why interactivity on packaged media has a tough road ahead can be best learnt from the lessons that WebTV and the cableTV taught us. When in comes to interactivity, a remote (or even a keyboard remote with a TV) cannot beat the web browser experience. That ability for social networking on facebook, the search engine around youtube, those things cannot be replicated around a HDM settop built around any single movie. Take pdfs, midi, gif, pbm, jpeg, mp2, mp3, mp4, 3gpp, avi, rms formats, these things all have to be replicated on a settop box to be able to browse all these sites, something webTV found to be a daunting task with each software upgrade while the internet grows. Today, we have downloadable plugins for VRML, video-conferencing, play-shifting, things that would be just about impossible to do on any settop box (except the PS3 and X360). Are they doomed? Who knows, but unless Bell spends more time thinking things through, he might find that the youtube analogy is just the tip of the iceberg of misunderstanding his market that could sink his grand plans. And I say that respectfully.

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