On Thursday 29 June 2006 13:38, Dieter wrote: > > > And finally, this is an X-terminal > > Yes, an X-terminal that can also handle television type video, and > that can output to a conventional TV as well as a computer monitor. > Convergence. Check your email during the commercials. :-) > > > So, as a consumer, I will tell my wish in an other way : why the > > graphical card should have to stay in the PC ? > > It doesn't. If you are using an X-Terminal you don't need a graphics > card in the computer. Many computers do not have graphics cards. > Some computers do not even have a place to plug in a graphics card.
As another consumer, why does the PC have to stay out of the pizza box? What is the advantage of this arrangement over a pizza box that is a complete PC running Windows Media Center edition? I now need a PC running somewhere all the time, and I can't record video with this. As opposed to say a TiVo that I can just turn on and use. Yes, I'll be able to check my mail, but I wouldn't be surprised if next-gen TiVo-like (or XBox-like) machines have web access (and perhaps even POP/IMAP clients, but most people use webmail anyway). Maybe they do already. Otherwise, I'll just walk over to the PC, or grab my wifi-equipped laptop off the couch. This whole thing just seems way behind the curve to me. Yes, PCs are powerful enough to have a single one in your home and let everyone access it through a terminal, like the mainframes of old, assuming they're not all watching HD video at the same time. But PCs are also cheap enough to just buy everyone their own do-everything box, and save a lot of hassle. Heck, most people these days buy a Windows PC, use it for a year or two until it is run over with spyware and viruses, and then buy a new one when it becomes too slow to work with. That's the market you're selling to, if you want any kind of volume. That's the people whom you have to convince not to buy the kids that magic box that will let them play games, watch and record digital TV and movies off the internet, and lets them check their mail, and instead to buy something that'll let them control the PC from the living room. Sounds like a tough proposition to me... Lourens
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