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June 13, 2006
Waiting for NEXT Generation TVs
Posted by Paula Thornton
The reports are true. When the kids move out, you really do change all your furniture and buy nice stuff. We've been looking at TV options for months. Just about ready to hang a purchase over the fireplace (needing to find a new location for our mountain scene serigraphs), we're now going to stare at the serigraphs for several more months. What's changed? The winds.
Framed by two prominent geographic features of the North American continent, they're blowing east of the Great Salt Lake, across the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the west. Surprisingly, not from the Pacific nor the Atlantic.
Unfettered by any profit motive BYU-TV offers on-demand TV that plays continuously from my laptop at all hours of the day. Miss something important? Spin it back and listen/view it again. No expensive equipment to 'store and replay' programs in your home. For now, no TV required. And in fact, in preparation for the arrival of a 'new' TV we'd already passed on our console TV to our daughter's apartment. No great loss.
From my hotel room, the TV no longer goes on, nor do I have to worry about arranging my mornings around 'catching' my favorite programs. Via wireless connections, I watch them as I can, or listen to them and replay them several times. Don't like what's playing right now? Spin back through the programming for that day and find something more interesting.
Lastly, an interesting 'feature' of the optional QuantumMedia viewer. In capturing the image above I did a simple shift-prntscrn, and pasted it into Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Much to my surprise, as I opened the clip to 'trim' it, the current program continued playing 'live' in the clip.
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BOB JACOBSON is fascinated by the experience of experience. A planner and technologist, Bob has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Design from UCLA. He's been a policy researcher, technology CEO, science writer, and consultant. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied cellular telephony's impacts on transborder communities in the Nordic Arctic Circle. Bob edited Information Design (MIT Press 2000) and is now writing a book on the theory and practice of creating edifying, transformative experiences.
PAULA THORNTON says, "Understanding human behavior (economics), optimizing interactions (design) and facilitating conversations (markets), are the means to achieve strategic differentiation. This is the focus of our discipline. It is not a 'nice to have'‚ and is not, like documentation once was, an afterthought. It is the means by which to start a strategic discussion and the means by which to drive a tactical initiative. All design should be evidence-based."
