This is in terms of media only.

Looking back on history, what have we came from? Soundless black and white picture shows (thats pretty much what they were, not quite a motion picture), to todays blu-ray high def. We have had MANY formats from the past, but what will be in the future?

The disc won't last forever... Some people think solid state will be next. Plug your thumbdrive size movie in and watch it go. What do you guys think will be next?

I think it would be interesting to see a completely new idea. Why not just have a 'movies on demand' box much like sat, that can download any movie you want to watch in seconds. Yes yes, movies on demand is SIMILAR to that, but its a short selection compared to the amount of movies you can get at a movie store or netflix ect. The only problem with that is, its not fast enough. We need instant movies at our fingertips 24/7. How could we achieve this goal?

No... not or ....

I'm just bored on my lunch hour and pondering things... discuss.

At RIT we have two on-campus DC hubs that total around 80 TB of shared data. We have 100 and 1000 Mbit networks all over campus.

I already get movies on demand within seconds.

As a (now) Media and Communication Studies major, I was very sad what you went in this thread.

When you were speaking "next big technology leap" even within media alone, I was hoping people would think the jumps between print, film, broadcast radio, TV, video games and the internet. The sort of jumps you're talking about between "silent black and white" to high-def are considered more "delivery technologies" where only the quality of the given medium is improved upon. I'll be the first to admit that the line between delivery technology and medium can be hard to determine at times, but hopefully the difference is apparent enough to see here. I'd like to see the day that a new media breakthrough somehow tackle using the tactile sense (perhaps something like the Wii is a prototype step in that direction).

I, unfortunatley, have nothing of interest to say about the future of new delivery technologies. The jumps from things like cassette tapes to CDs and DVDs don't hold my interest as much.

I think we've reached an apex in the content format of media. The only step we can make to better fit our own physical experience is the way the media is consumed. Right now the only difference between high def television and our own being there is our depth detecting eyes, and ability to smell/taste. Everything else is interaction based. We can't look anywhere, we can't physically move or touch anything in the space, and we can't speak to anyone on screen. These levels of interaction aren't excluded because of technology (anymore), but are simply useless and uninteresting.

The only step we can take to raise experience when consuming media is virtual reality. Otherwise, we're not going to see any new media technology except maybe angle oriented pixels.

I'm speaking on the consumer end. While yes the technology BEHIND the movies is amazing and keeps getting better and better, I'm considering more of the end users format. And while it must be nice to download at 40Mib/s not EVERYONE can benefit from that.




I think you may be on to something there.... Maybe we need a format of movie that displays in 360 degrees. Where every aspect of every scene is available for the viewer. A sort of 'round room' with a central projection unit that displays a 360 degree view of the film. Where you can literally see 'everything' thats going on. Tricky part would be developing a camera for recording that, and a projector for replaying it... that is, without distortion.

um, okay. Short answer: Things will get faster and thus higher quality content will be available at everyone's fingertips. I don't know if there's much to talk about there.

The real problem is that we probably could have cheap nationwide fiber optics, but the telecom companies are just now starting to get it done. That was a combination of their greed, and the lack of need/desire from consumers.

The next consumer technology should be a decent sized brain for expecting more from the exploitative industries.

**** you. The connection I'm getting in my dorm room here is around 90kbs. Dammit.

**** you.

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