Comments on: The Paradox of Thinking Outside the (Set-Top) Box http://research.gigaom.com/2010/03/the-paradox-of-thinking-outside-the-set-top-box/ Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:27:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: r4ltman http://research.gigaom.com/2010/03/the-paradox-of-thinking-outside-the-set-top-box/#comment-824 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:21:39 +0000 http://pro.gigaom.com/?p=27850#comment-824 the cloud will level the need for set top boxes, that’s obvious, the real battle is now and will for a while, codecs. Wal Mart will try to not to futz it up, however, IP enabled devices that allow Hulu style access to content is the future. I can’t wait to see the new remotes that can control flash based (YES, Flash based, wanna know why? cause i don’t anything about Silverlight and I don’t care about little public displays of functionality, as far as i’m concerned the Youtube scanning feature tortoise and hare is vaguely useful to no one not suffering from insomnia) it will be amazing. Thank goodness it won’t happen for years because these industries are just bumping against each other like morons in a nightclub. Maybe there will be overlap, doubtful there will be family, functionally dysfunctional or otherwise.

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