Off the Grid
A few months back I wrote about some emerging trends for 2011 and the one people seemed to gravitate toward the most was the notion of TV where ever and whenever.
Yesterday I took the giant leap and finally canceled my cable service. I upped the speed of my internet and am ready to see what a Playstation 3, Netflix account, and the web do to my viewing habits.
I know I’m going to miss some live sporting events, as well as a few cable shows, but I’m certainly not going to miss flipping from channel to channel watching one terrible thing (Guy Fieri) after another (most bravo shows) in 10 minute increments.
I think that slowly but surely media is moving towards a pay for what you want model, and I for one would be happy with that choice.
We aren’t too far away from a time when our smart phones or tablets will be the only device we need for content. I can imagine the next step in our technology is a device made for all screens. Bring it to work and plug into a screen, take it home, and watch movies on an even bigger screen.
We’ve seen a million products from companies like Logitech built for the iphone. Music was the first no brainer, and now that we view the web, and video content on our small devices it makes sense that these same companies innovate here.
I imagine we’ll just be buying dummy screens of every size that have a dock for our phone. The screen will be touch sensitive so we can access the content we are looking for or maybe it will be motion driven like microsoft’s kinect.
The cool part is this stuff all exists so it’s not even like science fiction it could happen this year.
Interesting times indeed!
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