We're in the period of transition for all electronic products, and in home entertainment. With literally thousands of companies vying for market share, viewing hours, hardware costs, access costs, and business connection to the consumer through advertising... it's a huge battle in the public arena.
New, start up players coming on, hoping to find winners, and older technologies struggling to change acceptance into profitablilty, and the consumer in the middle, with no one able to absorb the variables to make a balanced decision.
It's not just hardware, or content choice, or a right and wrong way... but a learnng curve that might take a few years to shake out. As network and wired content providers give way to all-streaming... the inevitable, the driving force will come from the legal restrictions set by government for bandwidth.
I believe we're watching the slow death of OTA AND wired network/channel content. with a totally new paradigm in the way.
Fortunately, the transitional costs seem to be nominal, and the public will very slowly become aware of the emerging concept as it occurs. (kind of like trying to introduce the concept of computers to a lost tribe in the Amazon.) Even now, how many people understand what H.264 means?... even though this may be a major choice option.
Heck... I'm still trying to find out what "Plex" is all about.
The idea of "throwing" content to a TV screen... takes a little bit of getting used to. Currently, it may take as many as four remote controls to access content. The all in one package does not yet exist... and programmable remotes require much work, and a good memory to use.
In my own case, the more I understand, the less I know about what's happening. Rest assured, the coming several years will be exciting, and 5 or 6 years from now, everyone will wonder what the whole kerfluffle was all about.
Then, I'll be able to buy your 70 inch, top of the line, flatscreen TV for $25 at my local resale shop.
Hey! coping with all this stuff at my age, ain't easy.
As my mom usta say "When you get to be MY age, you'll understand.
YMMV
New, start up players coming on, hoping to find winners, and older technologies struggling to change acceptance into profitablilty, and the consumer in the middle, with no one able to absorb the variables to make a balanced decision.
It's not just hardware, or content choice, or a right and wrong way... but a learnng curve that might take a few years to shake out. As network and wired content providers give way to all-streaming... the inevitable, the driving force will come from the legal restrictions set by government for bandwidth.
I believe we're watching the slow death of OTA AND wired network/channel content. with a totally new paradigm in the way.
Fortunately, the transitional costs seem to be nominal, and the public will very slowly become aware of the emerging concept as it occurs. (kind of like trying to introduce the concept of computers to a lost tribe in the Amazon.) Even now, how many people understand what H.264 means?... even though this may be a major choice option.
Heck... I'm still trying to find out what "Plex" is all about.
The idea of "throwing" content to a TV screen... takes a little bit of getting used to. Currently, it may take as many as four remote controls to access content. The all in one package does not yet exist... and programmable remotes require much work, and a good memory to use.
In my own case, the more I understand, the less I know about what's happening. Rest assured, the coming several years will be exciting, and 5 or 6 years from now, everyone will wonder what the whole kerfluffle was all about.
Then, I'll be able to buy your 70 inch, top of the line, flatscreen TV for $25 at my local resale shop.
Hey! coping with all this stuff at my age, ain't easy.
As my mom usta say "When you get to be MY age, you'll understand.
YMMV
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