Wednesday, October 29, 2008

What does a future TV look like?

I just keep thinking what a TV of the future would look like. We have already seen so many versions of the TV - right from the heavy, huge and tedious boxes to sleek, smart and sexy flat screens - and it's really difficult to tell what these machines would look like and what they would be capable of doing in the future. The physical movement of today's TVs is more or less restricted by a physical connection to a satellite antenna or a normal line-of-sight antenna. But I believe tomorrow's TVs would be standalone machines that just need to be switched on to see a program on them. Technology miniaturization can very well make it possible to cram millions of circuits onto silicon chips thus reducing the size of a TV manifold. The size of a TV would no longer be huge but very small, not any bigger than a cellphone, and at the same time it would facilitate transmissions through both satellite and the internet. People would be able to carry these TVs in their pockets just as they carry their cellphones or wallets. And the TV screens would be as thin as a cellphone sim card.

These TVs would be programmable just a like a PC, and all the Web/TV 2.0 activities would be possible. Now let's see a glimpse of a TV of the future, and a realization that technology innovation is aggressively powering rapid society transformation, and making the unimaginable imaginable.

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