The days of satellite dishes, cable boxes, stereos, CD’s, or any clutter are over. Soon we’ll all be living in empty white rooms with just a white laptop and a futon. I imagine these spaces in the near future to look something like a cross between a scene from Woody Allen’s ‘Sleeper’ and a John and Yoko album cover from 1972. I’m not sure if this is a good thing. As the world gears up for the unveiling of the new Apple ‘tablet’ (there goes the book collection as well), it appears that game consoles are starting to operate more as all-round entertainment hubs than just a way for your kid to lose his eyesight and brain cells playing a kickboxing game for eight hours.
Xbox’s and Playstation’s are now used as channel receivers and full ‘entertainment consoles’ thus avoiding any complications or delays dealing with cable companies. This is a new and very lucrative market providing new revenue streams for people like Disney, who own sport channels like ESPN. The plan is to also include social networking sites and perhaps your music catalog, all connected through internet broadband and your trusty game console. The challenge (and money) lies in each manufacturer developing online stores and most importantly, content in them to sell to customer’s.
The competition for the heart of the home is coming from the PC side. Companies are beginning to offer interfaces that connect directly to your laptop enabling videos and movies to be streamed from your computer. But, whoever can offer the service that provides the most content options, and thus streamlining the whole way we experience movies, use Twitter, and listen to music will ultimately be rewarded with bags of cash. Whatever the case may be, and whoever the provider is, one thing is for certain: DVD players and clunky cable boxes are going the way of the dodo.
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Xbox’s and Playstation’s are now used as channel receivers and full ‘entertainment consoles’ thus avoiding any complications or delays dealing with cable companies. This is a new and very lucrative market providing new revenue streams for people like Disney, who own sport channels like ESPN. The plan is to also include social networking sites and perhaps your music catalog, all connected through internet broadband and your trusty game console. The challenge (and money) lies in each manufacturer developing online stores and most importantly, content in them to sell to customer’s.
The competition for the heart of the home is coming from the PC side. Companies are beginning to offer interfaces that connect directly to your laptop enabling videos and movies to be streamed from your computer. But, whoever can offer the service that provides the most content options, and thus streamlining the whole way we experience movies, use Twitter, and listen to music will ultimately be rewarded with bags of cash. Whatever the case may be, and whoever the provider is, one thing is for certain: DVD players and clunky cable boxes are going the way of the dodo.
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