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Television of the Future
Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on November 28, 2009
If you want to learn what the future of television will look like, this video podcast is for you.
Despite recent publicity about favorable consumer response to services providing only limited Internet Videos at our TVs, ultimately nearly everyone will demand unlimited Internet access on televisions. Services like Amazon-Video-on-Demand, iTunes, and Netflix Watch Instantly via devices such as TiVo, Blu-Ray Players, and Xboxes are merely going to whet consumer appetites for unrestricted Internet access on TVs.
Consider how the ZeeVee box provides a workable methodology for getting unlimited Internet access at all the TVs in a house without disrupting regular CATV or Satellite service.
First, the $400 ZeeVee box connects to your computer and the coax wiring already installed in your house for CATV or Satellite video services.
Second, once connected the box converts the computer into a “broadcast channel” among the many already available on your CATV or Satellite service. You designate one of the open channels as the pathway for your computer “broadcast”. For example, if you choose channel 129 as your ZeeVee channel then whenever you select that channel your TV will display whatever your computer is displaying. All the other channels work precisely as they did before you hooked-up the ZeeVee.
Third, ZeeVee provides an RF remote unit that enables you to control your computer from any room in the house. Thus, if you are watching channel 129 in the living room the RF unit transforms the television into a giant sized remote monitor for your computer. Basically, it enables you to surf the Web, view Internet Videos, do email, or any computer application from sitting on your sofa or even lying in your bed if you have a TV in your bedroom.
You can watch free videos YouTube or Hulu.com. Alternately, you can rent movies from iTunes or Amazon-Video-on-Demand. Any video on the Net or your computer is available to your TV. All this is on channel 129.
While ZeeVee is a product available today that can deliver unlimited Internet access to every TV in your home, we are not endorsing the brand for two reasons. First, we have not yet set-up one and used it ourselves. Second, based upon some of the reviews we read, we suspect that the set-up is not as easy as the company’s demos imply.
In conclusion, within a few years ZeeVee may be regarded as a prototype that demonstrated a proof-of-concept methodology for getting unrestricted Internet access to all TVs within a household. It shows us what the future will look like.
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Tags: digital-media, Future of TV, Future-of-Television, Internet-video, Phil-Leigh, YouTube, Zee Vee
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Hey there,
wow that seems very interesting to use my notebook or pc connected to my TV. No cables required, thats great. But I haven´t heard from it in Europe, so hopefully such technology is also available in Europe too
Thanks
Tanja