your PC to your television screen
The established order will soon lose its grip on TV entertainment. We are looking at a new technological paradigm in the dissemination of content. While change can be unsettling, this is an awesome advancement for the consumer.
The media center PC concept enables you to integrate computer technology with the uses of your home entertainment setup. This permits you to watch television content on your PC. The broad range of available content on the internet makes for a vastly superior experience to the standard home theater arrangement.
A tuner card can be employed to send traditional television signals into your computer environment. It will enable you to record televised events and burn them to DVD. Many modern video cards will let you export content from your PC to your television screen. You can also integrate your audio files and images into your home theater system. The options are limitless.
Some have theorized that online content will destroy broadcast cable television. Why pay for cable or satellite TV service when you could watch the same content on your computer for free at your leisure? A computer can be connected to your TV without significant technical expertise. This seems to render the old cable box or satellite dish obsolete. Why should you have to watch your favorite shows on the network's schedule? Most television programs will soon offer the same content online, indeed, some of it is already available. This creates a redundancy between TV and internet service. If you hook up a laptop to your TV, you can watch much of the same content whenever you want. As bandwidth speeds increase, the data quality will improve as well. This will only make it simpler to watch high quality internet content on your television.
Since the majority of internet content is supported by advertisements, it makes a profit in a similar way to cable television. In the future, all content providers will be able to make money offering their programs on-demand. This is a massive improvement over the way we had to watch television in the past.
This also opens up more opportunities for the independent content provider. You no longer need to be able to afford a big television station in order to create and broadcast content. The internet creates a medium in which the independent arts can thrive, and this new technology can bring their finished products to the home entertainment center. More competition in content makes for better overall quality.
In the end the consumer really benefits from this explosion in new technology. The price of a media center computer will continue to go down as more devices are made. The bandwidth capacity of internet service providers will continue to increase over time too. Wireless high-speed internet access will soon be made available to rural markets.
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