Watch iPhone-4s Internet-Video on Your TV

Posted on November 11, 2011

Any video on the new iPhone-4s, can simultaneously be displayed on your television. It’s a process known as “mirroring”, and it’s going to fundamentally change how we use our televisions. For example, through-out the day you may sample full length videos that you’d prefer to watch on a TV screen. Perhaps a friend told you about the video and showed you where to find it on the Internet. Perhaps she sent you a link via email. Whatever, the iPhone-4s lets you watch it on either the smartphone screen, or your television.

To download seven-minute instructional video click here, or watch stream above.

Here’s how it works.

First, you need an iPhone-4s. (Mirroring also works with an iPad-2 that has the IOS-5 operating system software.) Read more…

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Master-to-Slave Role Reversal for TVs

Posted on October 30, 2011

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Future televisions will be nothing more than wireless display stations. No longer will they be the control center for our home video entertainment. In a Slave-to-Master role reversal, hand-held units shall become the gateways.

Let met explain.

In the future, we’ll access content on portable devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers, and choose to display programming on whatever screen is spontaneously most convenient. If we’re in a restaurant for lunch, we’ll likely select the smartphone screen. While sitting in a comfortable upholstered chair with a tablet computer, we’ll likely use the tablet screen. But if were in the TV room, we’ll simply instruct the applicable smartphone or tablet computer to display the video on the television screen.

It’s already happening for those with home Wi-Fi networks. Characteristically, Apple is leading the way.  Read more…

Future of Television - Video Podcast

Posted on May 23, 2011

Today’s post is a video narration of our PowerPoint forecast of the Future of Television.  Since it only takes eight minutes to watch it, we provide only a brief text summary.

Download video presentation here if you don’t want to watch the stream.

First, ultimately content migrates to the Internet where it is accessed via browser-centric or app-centric devices.

Second, the socket panel available on modern flat-panel TVs is the “Trojan Horse” that prompt’s the paradigm shift.

Third, the future TV remote control units are likely to be smart-phones and tablet computers using apps such as Peel.

Fourth, eventually sponsors will demand that they only pay for TV commercials that are actually watched. This is already starting on the Internet. However, since conventional TV already has digital watermarks embedded in the audio stream, it can also be implemented in regular television via smartphones and tablet computers. The key is to augment content identification with recognition of commercials that can be made interactive.

Fifth, consumers will eventually expect constant access to the Internet cloud thereby leading to the emergence of massive high-speed  unlicensed wireless networks utilizing Wi-Fi and TV Band White Spaces.

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How to Publish Your eBook at Amazon.com

Posted on October 19, 2010

Today’s video podcast demonstrates how to publish eBooks at Amazon.com. That means millions of Kindle owners can read them along with consumers owning devices like the iPhone and iPad that have Kindle applications. The video speaks for itself, but several points merit emphasis.

Download Video to iPhone, iPod, or iPad by clicking here.  (eight minutes)

First, given its relative newness, eBook publishing at Amazon.com is surprisingly un-complex. Anyone with an existing customer account is eligible. Those without one merely need to open a conventional account. There are two basic steps. One is to upload cover art and a publication-ready manuscript in a qualified format. Fortunately the commonly used Microsoft Word is an accepted format. The second step is choosing a price which also determines the royalty. Read more…

Now WiFi Networks Can Make Money

Posted on July 21, 2010

If you want to learn how your company can profit from potentially explosive growth for commercial WiFi networks, this video is for you.

Our eight minute PowerPoint explains the triggering factors, sizeable potential, and enough concrete information to get your company started.

Download video for iPad, iPhone, and iPod here.

First, AT&T Wireless’ decision to impose usage-sensitive data pricing on the iPad and iPhone will cause subscribers to seek WiFi hotspots. Read more…

Mobile Bandwidth Shortage

Posted on July 12, 2010

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The decision to adopt usage-sensitive data pricing by AT&T Wireless is significant. It is likely to cause a chain reaction fundamentally transforming the Wireless Internet. The changes will create important new business opportunities in both regulated and non-regulated sectors. The reaction sequence will proceed through three steps.

First, most major cellular carriers will follow AT&T’s lead. For example, Bloomberg reports that Verizon will be Apple’s second cellular operator when it launches its 4G network in January. Importantly, the carrier has separately commented that it will abandon unlimited pricing on that network. Although network congestion resulting from past explosive traffic growth accompanying smartphone and iPad popularity is the official explanation, it is also an opportunistic way for the industry to increase average subscriber revenue and thereby profits. Read more…

AT&T’s Seeds of Self Destruction

Posted on June 10, 2010

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AT&T Wireless’ decision to replace iPhone and iPad $30 monthly unlimited Internet access with metered pricing is significant for two reasons. First, consumers will learn that it is much more restrictive, or costly, than they want. Second, it will stimulate the development of competitive lower cost municipal-mesh-WiFi-networks or alternate technologies which consumers will eventually prefer. Consequently, AT&T has planted the seeds of self-destruction.

AT&T claims that most subscribers will save money under the new plan. While presumably valid when based upon historical usage, there’s not a shadow of doubt that the projected future usage patterns for all-you-can-eat pricing were going to be much more data intensive for two reasons. One is that iPhone patterns were already trending that way. For example, it was recently reported that iPhone data traffic was bigger than voice traffic. A second reason is that iPad Internet usage is expected to be even more intensive than that of the iPhone particularly considering the new product’s enthusiastic market reception. Read more…

Future of Public Broadcasting

Posted on June 3, 2010

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Public Broadcasting offers high quality programming. Presently most of us watch it via one of about 400 local PBS affiliates. However, the most popular shows like Charlie Rose, Masterpiece Theater, Antiques Roadshow, and Nova are produced by only a few originators. Increasingly the creators are also putting many of those shows on the Internet where they can be watched at the viewer’s convenience without needing the local affiliate.

Last year Congress gave the Corporation for Public Broadcasting $400 million. About $360 million passed through to local affiliates. They generally used the money to purchase programs such as those noted above. However, the grants only represent about 20% of the typical affiliates’ overall budget. The other 80% was mostly used to fund affiliate operating overhead. Most of that 80% came from (1) prominent corporate underwriters, (2) grants from the individual states, and (3) “viewers like you”. Read more…

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