Each time the computer industry tries to make incursions into the home entertainment center by offering products that are designed to use the home TV screen as a computer screen, consumers offer a lot of resistance. Again, the computer industry continues, as evidenced by Intel Vivo technology and the fact that the media center version of Microsoft Windows XP operating system and different versions of Vista operating system are designed to make computers a part of the entertainment center home.
While consumers have been busy resisting the incursion of the home computer in the home entertainment center, computer equipment has been sneaking in every case. This raid occult can be seen in the form of new forms of TV technology. DVD players, digital TV converters, satellite receivers, DVR, video and game systems are all the computers in one form or another.
One side effect of having all this new technology in a completely computerizes is that there is an unprecedented level of compatibility between computers and the Internet, and home entertainment center. For example, there are a variety of devices that use Internet connections to provide their users with more options. The TiVo is a good example of this. TiVo’s to download their program guide information from the Internet and are also capable of being programmed to record specific TV shows from another location on the Internet. Some of the newer TiVo’s are also able to download movies from the Internet to be viewed on televisions. Other devices that can do include some versions of Sony HDTV sets, the Voodoo, the Sling box, Microsoft Xbox 360, and many others. Apple TV is capable of downloading videos from your home computer (which can get the video from the Internet or a digital camcorder), and the ability to download movies directly from the Internet should be arriving for the Play Station 3 from Sony.
Another interesting result of the overlap between computer and TV is the introduction of portable video devices. A portable video device is a hand held, battery portable device that can store video on a built in system for storing data and then display it on a television screen or its built in screen. These devices are available in various sizes and capacities. For example, there are versions with only two gigabytes of storage space and such a small screen you have to wonder why nobody has given them the ability to play videos.
At the other end of the 'extreme are devices which have largely screen sizes, the ability to store more than one hundred hours of video, access the web over a Wi-Fi connection, and also record video that is played off other devices and stored on their own hard disk. Data storage systems use either flash memory or more conventional hard drives, and screens can be conventional LCD technology or energy saving OLED screens. Some of these devices can also download videos from some Digital Video Recorders if all the compatibility issues are taken care of.
All of these devices show the benefits that computer technology can be applied to home entertainment.
While consumers have been busy resisting the incursion of the home computer in the home entertainment center, computer equipment has been sneaking in every case. This raid occult can be seen in the form of new forms of TV technology. DVD players, digital TV converters, satellite receivers, DVR, video and game systems are all the computers in one form or another.
One side effect of having all this new technology in a completely computerizes is that there is an unprecedented level of compatibility between computers and the Internet, and home entertainment center. For example, there are a variety of devices that use Internet connections to provide their users with more options. The TiVo is a good example of this. TiVo’s to download their program guide information from the Internet and are also capable of being programmed to record specific TV shows from another location on the Internet. Some of the newer TiVo’s are also able to download movies from the Internet to be viewed on televisions. Other devices that can do include some versions of Sony HDTV sets, the Voodoo, the Sling box, Microsoft Xbox 360, and many others. Apple TV is capable of downloading videos from your home computer (which can get the video from the Internet or a digital camcorder), and the ability to download movies directly from the Internet should be arriving for the Play Station 3 from Sony.
Another interesting result of the overlap between computer and TV is the introduction of portable video devices. A portable video device is a hand held, battery portable device that can store video on a built in system for storing data and then display it on a television screen or its built in screen. These devices are available in various sizes and capacities. For example, there are versions with only two gigabytes of storage space and such a small screen you have to wonder why nobody has given them the ability to play videos.
At the other end of the 'extreme are devices which have largely screen sizes, the ability to store more than one hundred hours of video, access the web over a Wi-Fi connection, and also record video that is played off other devices and stored on their own hard disk. Data storage systems use either flash memory or more conventional hard drives, and screens can be conventional LCD technology or energy saving OLED screens. Some of these devices can also download videos from some Digital Video Recorders if all the compatibility issues are taken care of.
All of these devices show the benefits that computer technology can be applied to home entertainment.
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