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- Byron Montgomerie wrote:
- >
- > Perhaps it makes business sense for VIScorp but I for one am not interested
- > in a set top box and won't be for some years until the industry gets their
- > act together.
-
- The set top box is not for everybody. Its aim is to target those consumers who
- represent the largest non-computing community, who are overwhelmed by the
- aspect of learning about computers. The set top box then brings a portion
- of computing to their homes in an enviroment they feel most comfortable in,
- their living room; as well as a tool they already know how to operate, their TV.
-
- > If the whole world went the set top box way I still would
- > want a computer. From what I understand a set top box is just a fancy
- > terminal to be connected to a mainframe in any case and I don't approve of
- > that kind of setup.
-
- So would I, but most people are afraid /overwhelmed by the power the computer
- wields. If the world goes by the set top box concept, I would rather have an
- Amiga in the heart of the machine than a Wintel box.
-
- > Strange, I would expect the system software to become more hardware
- > dependent and hacked together to suit short term goals. The hardware I
- > would expect to become more proprietary and non standard.
-
- Hack to suit short term goals is not a good way to make the technology
- easily upgradeable for the future. If a company is to survive, the future
- is were it's laurels rest.
-
- Keep the faith
- Julio C Arroyo
-