DECEMBER 2004 / RESEARCH FROM THE INTERNATIONAL INFORMATICS INSTITUTE

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Pervasive.TV News

The most interesting people in the world watch a lot of TV -- and that's the biggest problem.

POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2004 BY JACK POWERS

Following up our research in new video technologies, this outline for a twelve week course on Pervasive TV is being tuned for several New York-area university programs. It's about the development of many new forms of video outside of the standard 101 million Homes Using Television that Nielsen measures.

FAST-MOVING DEVELOPMENTS

Quite a lot of things have been happening in this field this year:

• Flat Panel Display (FPDs) shipments grew 223% last year. The Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) TV set is doomed.
• Flat panel TVs using Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) are playing video in elevators, taxi cabs, pocket computers, mobile phones, minivans and luxury cars.
• Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays that are lighter, cheaper and use less power than LCDs came to market this year, promising even more pervasive video displays. (See the great video demo of a *flexible* OLED TV at: http://www.universaldisplay.com/foled.php)
• 47 million Americans regularly stream media over the Internet, often bringing TV into the office for the first time.
• Laptop PC displays are turning up in non-standard sizes with high resolution and HDTV capabilities.
• Portable MPEG-4 players, embedded in Personal Digital Assistants and standalone devices, are taking handheld TV everywhere.
• The number of Business Television systems used for corporate communications, teleconferencing and distance learning is projected to jump from about 81,000 in 2003 to more than 432,000 by 2006.
• Digital video signage is taking over the retail world; even the NYU directional signs are plasma display screens.
• On the creation side, 98 million web cams were shipped last year, digital photography is everywhere (even mobile phones,) and most consumer PCs come with video editing capability and standard DVD recorders.
• The DVD has revolutionized movie rentals, and the next generation disc will hold four times today's capacity.

• Summary Session
  The Future of the Moving Image, Career Paths, and Topics for Future Study

 

 

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