[opendtv] Re: Analysis - Next Innovation: Unlocked Eyeglasses
- From: "TLM" <TLM@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:00:40 -0800
It would be a shame if my prescription eyeglasses were restricting me to see
only certain types of content. Last time I checked, they enabled me to
watch the Blue Man Group, Indy Car races live in person, The Hobbit and the
road while driving up the Pacific Coast Highway. But maybe I am missing
something. Are there Premium Tier (maybe X-Ray) eyeglasses that would
enable me to see the stuff I can't get with these? Of course viewing
programs/content with my eyeglasses requires that I be physically present.
Maybe, with respect to TV, one should be buying a "seat" for a given show
for so many minutes instead of a package of 50 -> 200 seats, most of which
you can never be sitting in at the same time. So if I want sit in the
audience to watch CSI at 8 PM I buy a "seat". If I want to watch a special
at the MET in NYC, I buy a "seat" for that. If I want to watch the New
Year's fireworks on the bridge at Sydney Harbor or the megatons of black
powder going off for Chinese New Year I buy a seat on a boat off Sydney or a
hotel room balcony in Beijing. If you commonly watch the news, NCIS,
Discovery and Moonshiners you could buy a package of seats for those and bop
around between seats with your remote. Ditto talking with a sales
consultant at the Apple or Microsoft stores, Best Buy, Amazon or a new car
dealership.
Heck, you can already get a free seat in a car driving around any town in
the USA and look around you from street level, you can move your point of
view left and right and even up and down. Real estate brokers are giving
away these free "seats" all the time now to people shopping for a new home,
and making a very good business doing so.
If I am correct (excuse me if I messed this up), you can get a seat at
OpenDTV at:
http://www.earth-scout.com/google-street-view.php?q=Gainsville%20FL%2032614
Or you can get a seat at Del Rey at:
http://www.earth-scout.com/google-street-view.php?q=8207%20Delgany%20Avenue%
20Playa%20del%20Rey%2C%20CA%2090293
Cheers.
(The live programs at these seats won't be available for a year or two. But
they will. The stage crew is still setting up. I am sure the show times
will be published if you put in for ticket notifications now. Backstage
passes will cost extra of course.)
BTW - There IS a seat available sitting right next to some of Paul
McCartney's relatives (sister and step daughter), but someone seems to have
tripped over a cable somewhere. You might want to periodically check back
in here from time to time to see if they've come back from intermission:
http://www.mccartneymultimedia.com/index.php/multimedia/360vodtv
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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 5:14 PM
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Analysis - Apple's Next Innovation: TV
Another long-winded article about how Apple will solve this supposedly
"uncracked" problem of Internet TV. Aaargh. And to think people are waiting
in awe to see what genius Apple can unleash on this oh-so-intractable
problem.
One thing I can agree with. If Apple wants to create a nice, intuitive
portal for TV content, WITHOUT forcing their faithful brethren followers to
use just that one Apple portal, then that might be a useful attempt. But my
bet is, they will force their faithful only to that one altar. There are
many intuitively designed portals out there, not the least of which are from
each of the networks themselves. Most "connected TV" products, including
AppleTV, won't allow users to see these portals.
Most of what the article describes as being the TV experience of today is
basically bogus and self-inflicted. Like all articles of this kind, they
need to make the reader believe that TV is still the way it was in 1950. And
people apparently lap this up.
I guess what is particularly irksome about Apple or even Intel getting into
the walling-in content business is, they all seem to be trying desperately
hard to re-create the model where hardware and content are in collusion. The
Internet is perfectly designed to keep this collusion from being necessary,
with very deliberately, obsessively open standards. But just because we're
talking TV, instead of everything else already on the Internet, all the
lemmings feel the need to jump off that collusion cliff once again. You
know, "there's no other way."
The article even downplays what is already openly available online, making
it sound like it's just CBS and HBO, I guess because some restrictive "apps"
for iPads offer this. Jeez guys, time to wake up.
Bert
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