2007-05-03 22:36:05 · 14 answers · asked by Which? 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
A more immersive experience in audio and visual entertainment.
Currently TV picture quality is drastically improving, however the real breakthrough will be when visual entertainment becomes not only 3D, but interactive 3D. Imagine you're watching Doctor Who and you have to hide from the Daleks!
Internet, TV and communication services will become one and the same, so you could move files, manipulate photos around by hand and watch TV and make a call all from your 3D TV in the comfort of your armchair or wherever.
Think of the the way characters in Minority Report watched video. Think of the Nintendo Wii.
The user will be less passive and more participant. And hopefully it won't mean you have to wear a silly pair of red and green lensed spectacles!
2007-05-05 10:15:58 · answer #1 · answered by FiL 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The next big thing is 3D video and audio in the home.
We have see that 3D is capable of being deployed quite inexpensively. As more content is available you will see a shift in the entertainment industry to go after the in home experience. When DVD and Dolby Digital first came out some slated doom for mega plex theaters in favor of home theaters. Consumers wanted to both go to the theater and to recreate the first time experience of seeing a movie.
Advances in home theater design only help a studio when it releases to video a popular movie. If they have a under-performer, home video is a way to recapture lost revenue from a box office bomb and turn it into a video hit (how many people have a Pauly Shore movie in their collection).
Home based 3D high definition with 3D digital sound is the next move. After the video portion is done look for development in channel disbursement. I see a system in the not too distant future with 22.4 channel audio. The capability exists to do this now.
We also have seen the popularity of streaming content rise and it will continue to do so. So as the theater megaplex is improving I see the home entertainment industry following closely.
2007-05-04 03:04:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The next big thing is going to be theater receivers that have media extenders built-in. The new line of receivers are all starting to include Internet ports for streaming music from the Internet or your PC. they also are using it for controlling it thru a web browser. Each industry is trying to win this "media hub" war. Cable wants to have its set top boxes be the hub. Computer industry wants their htpc or home PCs,
when they make it so your receiver can be controlled via any web interface and have the controls accessible within your htpc front-end.....goodbye crestron. everyone will be able to have whole house audio & video.
22.4 audio?? 7.1 has fallen flat with consumers. Consumers have been getting 7.1 recievers and running them 5.1 & using the other 2 channels to power a second zone. Every A/V manufacture is jumping on media distribution and streaming to additional zones, not additional speakers in their already filled TV rooms. The question is what is the NEXT big thing. Not what could be big in the distant future. (bluetooth speakers, 22.4, etc.)
2007-05-04 02:11:21 · answer #3 · answered by mattlovesnicole 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think th emain thing is going to involve cheaper stuff. Once the decent widescreens hit below £300 or whole media sets get blow 500 then it'll become a household phenomenon in many more homes than it's currently percolated to so far.
Technology wise, I think it's going to be mirror-quality T.V. Sony have already been experimenting with this but the price is to high £2000+ and they're still too small)
2007-05-05 04:59:34 · answer #4 · answered by Can I Be Your Pet? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-05 08:09:30 · answer #5 · answered by naranjo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read that smells are in development of being transmitted across the internet!! - so most of the senses can be entertained.
Ears (Hearing) - music, mp3 players etc.
Eyes (Seeing) - video, PMP (portable media players) etc.
Touch (Touching, lol) - Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS (others haven't quite caught on)
Soon to be Smells (Nose)
And maybe after that... Taste!!
2007-05-06 12:09:03 · answer #6 · answered by Chemical Jelly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi .I think projecting a holographic image in front of a special screen. loudspeakers that can cancel crosstalk signals to achieve a three dimensional sound stage that far surpasses the surround images we have now.
2007-05-05 00:46:44 · answer #7 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On Demand HD Broadband Set-top boxes,with predictive recording functions for recording programs you may like to watch based on what you have already watched.
2007-05-04 10:44:20 · answer #8 · answered by WavyD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I pray for wireless everything! all those wires drive me crazy...
There's the TV,Blender, Satelite & Cable boxes, Telephone, microwave, audi-systems,mobile phone charger (which isn't too bad), PC & laptop wires, etc...
If it was possible to minimise them it'd be great.
2007-05-07 14:48:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a small device with various memory card slots that attaches to tv/hifi...
you just plug the card in according to whether you want music,films,games,photo's etc.....
and a thing that you call by phone from anywhere, push a few buttons and it starts dvd/hdd recording.......
2007-05-04 09:54:58 · answer #10 · answered by paulrb8 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋