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WorldTV – Television to the Next Level
by Andrew McCaskey
Here’s What’s After HDTV
WorldTV is the first articulation of the vision of television in the 21st Century. While Video on Demand (VOD) will, in the words of the commercial from fifteen years ago, give you access to every movie, show and commercial ever made, WorldTV will give you access to the realtime universe of video. And it’s going to be big. They have 100,000 channels in the works right now, and once they get rolling, it’s going to be millions more.
It is, of course, searchable and configurable content, much of it user generated, but all configurable into an IP based stream or set of content selections that combine broadcast television, games, sporting events, news, entertainment into your personalized video environment. And, with the advent of HD quality camcorders / direct to disk or to SD/CF card, a lot of it will be HD content – not produced by current media or entertainment, but produced and shared worldwide.
Our family Christmas videos are being shared via Seesmic to family members on the other side of the world. And as soon as that content can be put up on the family room flatscreen through an easy WiFi based client in the screen itself – without a set top box or computer requirement, you can bet that we will be in line for a set.
That’s the only driver that the television display manufacturers have to put some planned obsolescence into the system, and get the 720p 42inch Plasma replaced with a 52 inch 1080p, and then replaced again. Going to 120 Hz or 240 Hz frame rates is not going to grab anyone but videophiles – and until OLED’s brilliant hues come out of the stratophere, that is not going to do it. There are, however, about 40 million Baby Boomer grandparents coming online that want to tune into their worldTV.
I am going to be on the lookout at CES.
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