-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 21.11.2011 19:18, Will Cooke wrote: > So, what do you think the television of the future will look like? > Will we continue to have a big screen in our living room?
Big screens are not going away. With on-demand movie rentals and on-line movie stores I would imagine that the movie theaters are a thing of the past in the future. Home theater audio systems and bigger and cheaper High Definition displays can offer in-theater experience for more and more people, every day. At least in my home the living room is the most important room for my family to get together and I guess we are not that different from other families. In my mind the television could in the future be the "home canvas" where the whole family can share their experience of audiovisual content. I would love to see Ubuntu TV to be an enabler of sharing of movies, (youtube) clips, holiday photos and other ad-hoc media offerings between family members, friends and quests; right on big screen for everyone to see and experience together. > What role will portable devices take in the near, medium and long > term? Portable devices enable you to interact, record and share the world around you. They are always with you where ever you go. Portable device is your private terminal to the digital content around you, but they lack the ability, due to form factor, to fully enjoy the content with your friends standing beside you. Being able to harness the TV entertainment system to instantly represent your content fully would be a big advantage. Being able to combine the different devices and to offer an experience that is greater than sum of individual device experiences if the way of the future. > Do 3D films have a place at home? I'm really skeptic about 3D films in general. Only time will tell will they really break through as a consumer media, but right now it seems to me that 3D is driven more by the industry than the actual consumer demand. However, 3D movies more or less only "cleverly" utilize the video technologies that are used already for 2D and on purely technical grounds they are nothing special. We can support them if necessary. - -- Antti Kaijanmäki Software Engineer Canonical Ltd. +358 40 0243 413 https://launchpad.net/~kaijanmaki -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOy9WXAAoJEPzFBNE+d1r0+mYH/3W1iIVHjvvEAwiKnnOSmJUX tIJ5F0xts9R8kspOa1jqvjX271RAzqFV4AM2xtQfxllu6JpV7TISvas2b6LZlWJ3 hjGEtkkW6j4avTQcC3ER6L4mcFGNWvUaH1xfUO9KJsKYpxLkSu8kdQ1fA7dJkzXx TYfYzOA/6D7lC7zs5FrO3vFiiU7SCVDpTybnyZrR4QRGXDykR360l7aALG2zKafT uL7VyVU3sviq0Z6i7WbK0ipedmc0pAqV00To3YMtvfwLM7kx9p5eKB0WC+cyBBLF fwVPdKyZh/XZBxPpjDozmADk5ypUPo7dAItlLNUdPnK1WITPr6t1K5UgHNwIVlk= =NHkt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tv Post to : ubuntu-tv@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tv More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
