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PC Chips Book PC
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| Fri Sep 15, 2000 | 1:05P| PermaLink |
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"For years now, one computer company after another has been making computers that are meant to sit in the same room as the family TV, and often connect to it. Now, WebTV's been a success, but it's not a traditional computer - it's an Internet access gizmo. Real PCs with TV output just don't bloomin' work, for all kinds of reasons.
TVs are too fuzzy to work as computer monitors - most TVs can't crisply display even 640 by 480 computer video. Computer monitors big enough to read from across the room are terrifyingly expensive. Pointing devices you can use from the couch are clunky compared with a mouse. There aren't many PC tasks that more than one person can do on the one machine at once. And if a manufacturer builds in proprietary gear that tries to get around one or more of these problems, they end up with a weird non-standard expensive computer that's got "orphan product" written all over it."
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FULL STORY @
DANSDATA
(http://www.dansdata.com/bookpcblack.htm .)
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