How Will Consumers Get Their Content from The PC to Their Plasma TV???
One of the questions I frequently get asked is "If consumers are downloading videos to their PC, how do they get them to their TV?"
While there are several answers (including basic connection through the PC Input slot that most new tv's come with today), one of the cooler options will be via a USB flash drive (probably 2GB+) - enabling consumers to take digital media anywhere, any time and play it on almost any screen (television, pc, mobile phone, etc.).
Sandisk announced its USBTV product line at CES in January, and hasn't received much coverage since. When the products come out later this year or early next, I suspect they'll be a hit. Why? It's easy to use and makes downloading and viewing videos a cinch.
Comments
Really? It seems that wireless streaming would be the way to go. I listen to my music that way (I've got a Squeezebox that plays my music library). I like it. Why not have something similar for my video?
Posted by: Dan Ciruli | June 28, 2007 2:15 PM
Dan - agreed - you will in your home. But what about when you want to take it with you? Or, when you're at a friend's house and want to "Grab" a piece of video content off of his pc and bring it home with you (this assumes you don't want to try and email a 500MB file).
Posted by: Jeff | June 28, 2007 3:11 PM