BengaBenga on 03 January 2008
| Gnizmo said: You'd still have to have your PC on and have no-one else using it. Remember that media devices are designed to be used in family circumstances and that most families have 1 or 2 PC's of which the probably won't use any to be used as a DVD player. Of course TV's will be linked to the internet in some sort of way, but this will probably more in a way we see with current pay-TV decoders. I am not trying to be mean here, but this is the perfect example of the ignorance you are talking about. You can set it up so the compuer plays the TV shows while someone else uses it for whatever else they want. Most people just don't know, and frankly don't care that their computer can perform these tasks. They would rather just buy a DVR and use it while leaving out all the "complicated" computer tuning. |
Indeed, I was talking about your average computer setup, because the average person is the mass consumer market. There are probably people on this forum that use their computer to toas their bread, but I wasn't talking about that. I know what you described is perfectly well possible on a PC, but not without a setup that requires long wires or wireless conections, what the average person doesn't want to mingle with. I don't really blame them, and I don't see it changing, because the alternative works and is convenient.
