Future Bright For Home Media, Analysts Say
Two separate analyst reports released Thursday paint a rosy future for home media servers and the networks that they will use to pipe content around the home.
I think the home media server should be a super router rather than a stripped down PC. It amounts to much the same thing, I know, but it clarified my thinking a lot when I started to think of it this way.
super router with disk-based caching?
Yes. I guess you could just call that a set top box though. Still, shouldn't that be the router?
It's some sort of convergence of STB, DSL modem, and Wifi/LAN router, although the a/v decoding function may be forked into a separate unit. Little wifi-connected a/v decoders could be about the size of a pack of cigs and scattered around the house where needed, leaving the media-server with the satellite/DSL connection, the big disk, the router, etc.
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Two separate analyst reports released Thursday paint a rosy future for home media servers and the networks that they will use to pipe content around the home.
- mark 7-07-2006 9:29 pm
I think the home media server should be a super router rather than a stripped down PC. It amounts to much the same thing, I know, but it clarified my thinking a lot when I started to think of it this way.
- jim 7-07-2006 10:31 pm
super router with disk-based caching?
- mark 7-08-2006 12:23 am
Yes. I guess you could just call that a set top box though. Still, shouldn't that be the router?
- jim 7-08-2006 1:25 am
It's some sort of convergence of STB, DSL modem, and Wifi/LAN router, although the a/v decoding function may be forked into a separate unit. Little wifi-connected a/v decoders could be about the size of a pack of cigs and scattered around the house where needed, leaving the media-server with the satellite/DSL connection, the big disk, the router, etc.
- mark 7-08-2006 2:37 am