Gnizmo on 03 January 2008
| Game_boy said: @Gnizmo You keep thinking of a PC as it is today. Tomorrow, the PC will be the multimedia streaming centre and you will sit in front of a large TV as you have always done and play platformers with a proprietary controller. There will be no need for consoles, because the PC will be a home server streaming content to all forms of interactive devices in the home. You will never click into games from the desktop. |
That is a claim that has been thrown around for years. I knew people who swore DVD players would be bigger on PCs than on TVs and we see how that went. Do you know what my greatest party trick is right now? I play video files on my PC/Laptop on a regular TV. Everyone always thinks it is the coolest thing ever! You know what the best part is though? Their PC/Laptop can also do it. Almost every video card I have seen for the last 2 years has had TV out, and most in the last 5 years have had it. People don't like all in one set-ups like that though. It makes everything slightly more complex, and thus they just get confused and give up.
