Phil Leigh is a Tampa-area blogger who focuses on Digital Media (Inside Digital Media). He’s done a lot of great interviews with people involved, directly and indirectly, with digital media. His most recent podcast interview is with Shelly Palmer, author of Television Disrupted. This interview focuses more on Amazon Web Services and cloud computing. But, I was also happy to be introduced to Palmer whose book deals with an issue that has recently piqued my curiosity – will next year’s television digital switchover finally create a world where computers and television will blend together? Phil asks about the future of internet video about 11 minutes into the interview.
Here’s Shelly Palmer’s blog.
Dave:
I am also fascinated by contemplating just how we are going to start getting Internet video to our televisions. Most recently I installed software from TiVo that enables me to play unprotected Digital Media files on my computer on my TV. It works by sending the digital files from my computer over WiFi to my TiVo.
Watch for future interviews about “getting Internet video to your TV”.
Thanks for the comment, Phil.
I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a Samsung monitor/television. It has a television tuner, is ready for the digital switchover, even has a spot for me to screw in my rabbit ears (I don’t get cable), and a 15-pin vga connector so I can use it as my monitor.
The drawback is that I wouldn’t be able to do work on my laptop while watching internet tv because it would be busy providing video.
Shelly Palmer is exactly right about it being a business rules problem more than a technological problem. I think there’s probably a tremendous story about the titanic battle being fought over standards right now, but I haven’t come across any good summation of that fight.