What will be the main difference between Television in 2009 an ten years from now?
Basically how you view it.
No matter how you try to avoid it the fact is that the internet is the future of delivery to television an television is now yesterday today and tomorrow.
We will have gone from fat to super thin.
Fat being those old relics of what might seem to be the golden age you all grew up with the television setting on a table or in an entertainment console. A house full of remote controls for every television, tape or DVD player, radio and audio system you have in your home. Controls that are always stolen by that invisible remote control Nome that secretly lives under everyone’s home.
Flat being the next generation of what you are currently seeing on the shelves at Best Buy, Target, Sears and other stores.
Flat wall mounted will be as thin as 2.5 mm in thickness with glass not needed.
There will be a limit to the panel size because of back panel and fore panel problems.
(Meaning the material used to put the picture your looking at collapses in on itself.)
Yesterday is represented in that no matter how much things may change something’s will always remain the same such as basic over the air delivery of information will continue because it is tried true and has all the bugs worked out it.
Turn the television on and the program comes on all the time. The info structure is all in place and doesn’t have to be built from the ground up.
Remember when you were very young and you would hear your father or Uncle Joe, we all have uncle Joes you know, yelling at the television set because of what he had just seen on the screen. The question was did the television listen to what he had to say.
Today as of this moment in time nearly one third of those television sets being produced are internet capable. As in the case of purchasing a computer that said vista capable be certain to read the find print when you purchase the television set.
There is more to getting on the internet then just having a USB plug on the back of the television set that allows you to cable into a modem that allows you to get onto the internet.
Cables hanging all over the place are out in today’s world.
A truly internet capable television set has the modem built into it that can either be connected directly to the via coax from a cable company, Ethernet or wi-fied off your stand alone modem.
These new sets are expected to return the television set back to those golden days of your youth where the family or friends would set down in front of the television because it was a experience to be shared by all in the family or with your friends.
Technology of yesterday ended up fracturing the social experience because it became more and more impersonal and just a box that occupied a space in your house.
What you will have in front of your family and friends today will not be your fathers television set but something far more.
It will be the television you are always seeing in those old Sci-fi movies that show you what the future is going to bring to you but much more then that. It will be interactive. You will be able to talk to and see those you are having the conversation with . Watch globally and respond globally.
Your in Los Angeles and want to play a game one on one with someone in England you can not only see the game your playing but the one your playing the game with. Not so easy to bluff someone that can see your eyes when your making your moves.
When you yell at your screen today it not only has capability to hear what you said but ask you what it can do to make things better. Hal from 2001 is here.
Your in hi-def picture and sound. Those are the only television sets or tape and DVD device being built today.
Your panel size is limited only by how much money you have to spend not by what is available because today anything is possible if you can pay for it.
Fat on a table is now gone and flat wall mounted in hi-def is the norm of the day. Infact you can mount your set of today anywhere you want to place it even on a toaster if you wish.
Instead of having a house full of remote controls for all your consumer electronics you now have universal remote controls that the remote control Nome still does hide from you every time anything important is on.
Tomorrow is more then just around the corner. It is literally tomorrow. A 3D cannel is on the way to show programs on your new hi-def blu-ray enabled, net attached television sets.
3D content will double and keep growing. Noticed all those movies out this past year in 3D and more coming.
They will be interactive then ever and as big a panel as you imagination can imagine. In the month that this article is being written , October 2009, Sharp TV is going to a 10th-generation LCD set
Can we also say 21:9 screens. The 56" Philips Cinema Widescreen LCD is a 21:9 television hitting the streets of selected countries next month. Live programming will look good and DVD’s will play better on them but other forms of entertainment will have to adopt the new technology before the picture on the screen is as good as it needs to be. Sort of the cart leading the horse as in the case of the Blu-Ray and HD hi-def DVD players
That pesky remote control Nome is about to finally be chased away with gesture which is far more then just a replacement for the universal remove. The TV uses single-chip-based 3-D sensors provided by Canesta.
The Canesta’s sensors in the TV will collect a 3-D image of everything in the room. This 3-D technology helps it to recognize your hand from a printed hand on your t shirt or in any other object in the room. It recognizes different people and your hand when you stick out your hand for controlling the TV.
The gestures are simple and culturally sensitive. Gesturetek the software makes it easier for the users to control the TV according to their movements. You will also have alternate methods to control the TV.
A user of the new Hitachi TV set can get the control bar with just a wave of the hand
Spin the wrist - activate scroll wheel.
Swipe left or right - browse options.
Two hands - switch to a different function.
Just around the corner consumer electronics are in the pipeline that you could have imagined only in your wildest dreams.
Yesterday the family set around a box till the family fragmented when the television became just a part of the scenery.
Today television sets are becoming more interactive, larger more, inventive and the box is once again alive with families and friends once again setting in a social situation in front of the television in front of them.
Tomorrow the world.
William (Oldecam) Hoehne
October 9th 2009 wrap up to TV 3.0
(C) MBN 2009