The missing link: Users wait for a way to send digital content from PC to TVs and stereos
How weird is that? I called it a missing link box - too!
This has always been a key issue for anyone actually trying to build a real Home LAN. Intel is hoping that everyone will grok UPNP (universal plug and play) and that their "Extended Wireless PC Initiative" will help establish a standard for sending both control and content signals throughout the home. If there ever was a complex set of agenda, egos and technologies - it's this one.
Hopefully folks will start to see all the pieces of the puzzle come together right here in this blog.
1) TCP/IP - the tie into the home, final mile - blah blah blah. It will make your home LAN avaiulable to you - no matter where you travel - around the world - from your phone or Internet Cafe. Office, school, public kiosks - one happy TCP/IP community.
2) Devices, connectivity, digital cameras, MP3 players, your PC(s), game machines, set tops, PVRs, stereo - connecting them all to work together.
3) What comes next? - system software - which are both the protocols and media players to complete the infrastructure requirements
4) Lots of cool services and tons of content. Yes - we can use our DVDs and CDs, and sure we can record off the air - but we ALSO wanna buy things on-line - legally - as well - and aggregate it all together.
5) Now all we need is something to pull it all together, to make it all work - right. Gee now who could be doing that? Maybe a new kind of tool - with some completely new kind of experience? I know - let's call it "multimedia conversations." :-)
