[opendtv] Re: Huh?
- From: Mark Aitken <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:04:25 -0500
Monocle TV viewing...
;^)
Kon Wilms wrote:
>I find it amusing that no-one ever brings up the topics of arm and
>vision fatigue when watching content on a portable device. The fact is,
>it just gets annoying after 30 minutes, regardless of the quality of the
>service. The popularity of headsets just proves this - people are so
>lazy that holding a phone to their ears is too much effort.
>
>Everything you refer to is mounted and not handheld, with a larger
>viewing size. People tend to tune in and out of these systems because
>they are zero commitment. They don't have to pull a device out of a
>pocket, tune in, orient it, lose function of an arm since it is now a
>glorified mount, and then have to pack the device away when they are done.
>
>Video to cell phones is a fad. Now, video to cell phones which can
>retransmit their video content to the closest display device (i.e. a PMP
>on your desk, PMP in your car) - that has potential. At least you are no
>longer constrained to a jailed viewing experience. Smart hubs are
>nothing new though - the wearable computing crowd has been pushing these
>concepts for years (but people just ignore them, maybe it has something
>to do with the VR fad in the 80s).
>
>Cheers
>Kon
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>>Well first off if you are not the pilot it is possible to watch TV while
>>flying. Thousands are doing it right now. And we will watch DTV in the
>>subway. Watching big screen TV monitors seems to be all the rage in
>>church these days. I could go on.
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