Comments on: How Microsoft’s Monopoly Could Fall Within 10 Years | Convergence of TV, Internet & PC

By: Sam Beavan

Sam Beavan — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:45:28 +0000

A vital point is being missed here. People consume media via the internet on a computer in a completely different way to VOD TV browsing. Although both will be set up in a similar way in the near future peoples response to watching TV/finding TV is to find content that enables them to become a passive observer. When at a PC people expect to be interacting with the content at a much deeper level. Bringing internet browsing onto the TV set isn’t going to change peoples behavior. They will respond to it as a TV still and ultimately not interact with it as someone would do thats sitting down at a computer.

By: Michael W.Mwangi

Michael W.Mwangi — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:54:38 +0000

NOTHING WRONG WITH THE WORLD AND THE WRONG THA YOU SEE IS DUE TO YOUR DEFECTIVE SIGHT OR ISN’T IT ?

By: Michael W.Mwangi

Michael W.Mwangi — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:52:08 +0000

YES INFACT I’VE BEEN SEEING IT HAPPEN PCS IS COMPLICATED AND HOPE ITS SIMPLIFIED AS FOR THE MUMS ,MC CAINS,GRANDIS ETC WHAT WE NEED IS SMART TV WITH AN INTELLIGENT SHARP KID IN THE NAME OF REMOTE CONTROL THAT CAN DEMAND TO SEE PROGRAMMES STORE OR POSTEPONE PROGRAMMES RATHER A SUITOR AT HOME WHOSE ALMOST BETTER THAN WIFE IN TERMS OF SUPER ARTIFICIAL ENTERTAINMENT.
FOR MOBILE PHONES I EXPECT MIRACLES WHERE THE CELL PHONE IS SYCHRONIZED WITH TV AT HOME AND ONE CAN MONITOR WHATS HAPPENING AT HOME ANYTIME.PLUS PLUS IT CAN DENY YOU COMPANY OF CERTAIN PERSONS.

By: Rick Sans

Rick Sans — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:55:26 +0000

Totally agree with you. Also agree with disagreeing with Mark. Internet TV is already happening. Everything is merging. Soon enough there will be internet hdtv on your phone.

By: Bublebeeman

Bublebeeman — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:32:56 +0000

I have a media centre pc connected to my 42″ LCD smack dab in the middle of my liviningroom. I sit on the couch and browse the internet while picture in picture displays my tv image in the corner. I have a wii and 360 connected to the tv. So in that sense I have all the seperate parts and can definitley agree that everyone wants it all connected.

However, I’m pretty sure most people don’t want all their systems intergrated into one. First off, buying all that crap in one whole shabang would cost a fortune. Can you imagine buying a tv, stereo, computer, and xbox all at teh same time. Also, you have the problem that if one thing breaks everything potentially goes down.
Plus you may never be able to upgrade. Plus I have no idea why i’m writing this shit while at work…..

By: John

John — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:16:57 +0000

Have you not heard of the XP media center PC?. I’ve had mine since 2004 and absolutely love it. Watch and Record TV, both analog and OTA HDTV, surf the web, watch YouTube video, DVD’s, music catalog etc and the XBOX 360 works seamlessly with it… I think Sony is definitely watching out for that.

By: anon2

anon2 — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:53:54 +0000

“Microsoft is an extremely flexible company. Did you notice how they managed the whole market entry with the xbox and the xbox 360?”

They paid for the first and second Xbox (both big money losers until very recently) with the monopoly money of Windows and Office.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:16:18 +0000

Hi there, i dont know if you have noticed but Microsoft is an extremely flexible company. Did you notice how they managed the whole market entry with the xbox and the xbox 360? Microsoft totally optimizes what customers demand of them and how much they can ‘own’ their customers. They are fully playing the sympathetic company in the next big fighting area of IT: application development and runtimes. They have to or they will be pushed aside by mozilla and adobe for the grace of the public. They know this and acknowledge this. They are not too arrogant to assume they own the world. Dont assume microsoft will just roll over and die. They will diversify and modify themselves to succeed. Just like they have with Xbox 360. Microsoft watches, learns, listens, immitates and improves. I’d be very afraid of a company with so much power and with that amount of flexiblity. Sony on the other hand, will lose huge. Their corporate culture is that of ego, pride, and complete ignorance of customer wishes. And they are paying for it bigtime this time around.

By: Chris Tew

Chris Tew — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:50:49 +0000

“not a person on this planet wants to sit in front of his television and surf the Internet”

I do, my friends do, and countless other people who have requested this. A lot of people were upset that the Xbox 360 came without a browser.

A PC screen is just a display and so is a TV.

I’m hearing all over the place how people would like to surf YouTube from their TV set – often quite a social activity. While I would have agreed with your comment 2 years ago Its not the same now.

The Microsoft WebTV failed because at the time the internet was less of a social & recreational activity – today it is very different.

By: Trendecide

Trendecide — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:41:19 +0000

It is irrelevant whether you’re right on the “Microsoft Monopoly” which is what you’re using to lure people to read this article.

You are right in that the television is becoming more than just a TV and more like a computer. However, you will NEVER see the TV become THE computer.

On the other hand you’ve been completely ignorant to productivity… not a person on this planet wants to sit in front of his television and surf the Internet, or write a document, or code, or whatever (webTV’s demise already demonstrated this). The TV is remains, and always will remain, recreational.

I am by no means a Microsoft supporter, but as you continue to find the demands for productivity to evolve as they always have, there’s no reason why Microsoft (or any other company for that matter) won’t continue to be the strong competitor they always have been in the next five years to help pioneer that path.