Re: Re : UKNM: Ranty philosophy

[Ashley Pomeroy]

>>>>...not to lose the thread entirely, if we are using the internet to

consume our media differently, why would we _want_  TV style production

values anyway?<<<<


Blimey, I seem to have started some kind of war. Bear in mind that I

wasn't concerned with the presentation of television or the internet, so

much as the delivery. When I say that I believe the desktop internet to be

on the way out, I don't mean that the internet itself is doomed, merely

that the distinction between set-top boxes and home PCs will eventually

vanish (mind you, this is hardly a ground-breaking

prediction). Microsoft's forthcoming X-Box will probably hurt PC sales

more than it will hurt sales of Playstation 2s, and although I am unsure

of the specifications, if it has USB there won't be much of a reason to

buy a PC anymore. Television is a passive medium at the moment, and has

been for sixty years or so - but television is just a word. The meaning

behind the word can change.


This would all be coherent if it wasn't a Monday morning, and I didn't

have work to do.



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"In the land of the blind, the blindest man is king"

Ashley Pomeroy -

arpslab [dot] org

 - http://www.ashleypomeroy.com/


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