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history

the receiver at the RCA Pavillon was way ahead of its time, it was a combination of television - radio - recorder - playback - facsimile - projector ...

digital convergence

the union of audio, video and data communication into a single source, received on a single device, delivered by a single connection

subsidiary convergences

content -- audio, video, data
platform -- PC, TV, internet, game machine
distribution -- how it gets to your platform

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convergence

content -- 2D/3D graphics, data, video, audio
distribution -- broadcast, wireless, DVD, internet, satelite, cable
platform -- PC, television, game machine, wireless data pad, mobile phone

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exposition on the history of TV in Institute for Time-based Arts/Montevideo

acronyms

HDTV -- high definition television
SDTV -- standard definition television
ITV -- interactive television

a killer d-TV appliance ...

personal television -- TiVo, Replay-TV (MPEG-2 cache)
game machine -- Sony PS 2/3, X-Box

TV or PC

The roadblock to the Entertainment PC could be the PC itself. Even a cheap TV doesn't crash or freeze. The best computers still do.

distribution

telephone network -- from 0.5 - 2 Mbps to 60 Mpbs (2.5km)
broadcast TV -- 6 MHz / 19 Mbps (4 channels MPEG HDTV)
cable TV -- hybrid fiber-optic coaxial cable 6 Mbps
fixed wireless -- 2 Mbps (radiotowers + rooftop antenna), phones/handhelds
satellite -- downloads to 100kbps, modem for uploads ...

digital convergence

what will we do with convergence once we have it?

emergence

we will watch

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Berkeley mesh	San Francisco view	augmented terrain map

Google Earth

Earth -- earth.google.com
SketchUp -- sketchup.google.com/download.html

media as materials

each medium of communication tended to create a dangerous monopoly of knowledge

technological determinism

technological determinism was not the answer, ... more attempts were to be made to provide answers about the social consequences of television than had ever been asked about radio.

information

Information became a major concern anywhere during the late 1960 and 1970s where there was simultaneous talk both of 'lack of information' and 'information saturation'.

[History], p. 555

Æliens

2009

history

digital convergence

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a killer d-TV appliance ...

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emergence

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