Widget Channel: The Future of TV and Internet
Category Personal and Family, Science & Technology, Computers
Just about these times that I had been daydreaming about something concerning television---about how the way we should watch and enjoy it, in this age of supercomputers---Intel and Yahoo! has just recently announced the latest innovation in Internet technology by initiating the Widget Channel project . To be sure, this technology would entirely change the way TV viewers enjoy the ever-present boob-tube. The combination of TV and Internet is just the way to go for home entertainment.
Accordingly, Yahoo-branded TV widgets "will enable consumers to engage in a variety of experiences such as watching videos, tracking their favorite stocks or sports teams, interacting with friends, or staying current on news and information.”
Sometime ago, while I was watching TV at home by my lonesome, I had suddenly imagined someone, or some voice that was trying to catch my attention. “Hey you!” the voice said, “It’s me, Mr. Ryan Seacrest of American Idol”.
I would of course be so startled and would have asked the voice (to which I am not yet sure to where it came from) “Me? Are you talking to me?”
And the voice (allegedly that of the famous and handsome Ryan Seacrest) would say, “Yeah you, the one sitting on a rocking chair wearing an orange shirt. You just won a million dollars!!!” and other voices would suddenly come bursting out saying “Congratulations, you who is presently sitting in a rocking chair, from the Philippines!”; voices that should come from Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and the miraculously nice-sounding Mr. Simon Cowell.
Of course that scenario was just an illusion and if it had actually happened to me just most recently, I would have been so amazed and so startled that I wouldn’t be able to move from my rocking chair for some moments.
But someday, that scenario, where TV and Internet are fused together, allowing easy interaction between and among the viewers and the viewed, especially becoming useful for TV contests that give lots of money away, would no longer be so startling and so surprising, for in fact that’ll be just the future of the way we enjoy home entertainment.
And with the advent of Widget Channel, the future is so near. Thanks to Intel and Yahoo!
Ah... American Idol, I like that show. Entertainment where and when you want. It hold's commercial promise. We'll just have to make do with youtube and media-streaming sites. Low bit-rates, and poor quality is the order of the day. But delivering high definition, or "ok na" definition is going to stifle the internet because of the huge bandwidth requirements to ferry the content to us.
Comment by soulsheik — August 22, 2008 @ 11:42 pm
Ah... American Idol, I like that show. Entertainment where and when you want. It hold's commercial promise. We'll just have to make do with youtube and media-streaming sites. Low bit-rates, and poor quality is the order of the day. But delivering high definition, or "ok na" definition is going to stifle the internet because of the huge bandwidth requirements to ferry the content to us.
Comment by soulsheik — August 22, 2008 @ 11:43 pm
To soulsheik: The bandwidth requirements is one such concern but in US, they are trying to install a superspeed infra that would carry widest bandwidth connections. It'll trickle down to our shores gradually, just like broadband.
Comment by Major Tom — August 22, 2008 @ 11:59 pm
It is indeed amazing how technology evolves and how it helps us in so many ways. During my time, I was greatly astonished by Phone fax because when a document crosses the machine the message will be directly receive right away. Now through the use of sophisticated technology everything is not impossible
! Let's just hope that people (we) should use them for a good reason and not through distraction.
Comment by haze — August 24, 2008 @ 5:13 am