Comments on: Sky Building New Internet For Television http://thomashawk.com/2006/04/sky-building-new-internet-for.html Sat, 26 May 2012 02:31:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kids Music http://thomashawk.com/2006/04/sky-building-new-internet-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-100219 Kids Music Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=2111#comment-100219 Wow!!! thank u very much for all this information. Keep on supplying such useful information. It really is interesting. Wow!!! thank u very much for all this information. Keep on supplying such useful information. It really is interesting.

]]> By: Markbnj http://thomashawk.com/2006/04/sky-building-new-internet-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-14834 Markbnj Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:59:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=2111#comment-14834 Thomas:<br /><br />I used to work for AT&T; Labs, working on the (ATT Cable{now comcast} set-top box "walled garden"<br /><br />The ENTIRE experience of walled gardens has been around since AOL pioneered it back in late 80's.<br /><br />It will NOT work.<br />The Future of TV is ON PC's.<br />NOT in your den.<br /><br />I've (also) been building compact TV appliances that can plug into TV's for customers. It becomes a TIVO and if you have the $$$ for a HDTV card, your HD decoder and EVERYTHING.<br /><br />Also: wrt the set-top box:<br />That fiasco (led by the $$SOBs$$$ led by microsquish's set-top windows box) was the reason AT&T; died (and split itself into 4 (and then sold its name to bellsouth)<br /><br />And the set-top box development, as well as programming the converters, etc were the biggest delays in project.<br /><br />We had an infrastructure READY to roll, before the box was even completed. But the garden programming was so convoluted, even using windows api's , ...ugh...<br />Markbnj Thomas:

I used to work for AT&T; Labs, working on the (ATT Cable{now comcast} set-top box “walled garden”

The ENTIRE experience of walled gardens has been around since AOL pioneered it back in late 80′s.

It will NOT work.
The Future of TV is ON PC’s.
NOT in your den.

I’ve (also) been building compact TV appliances that can plug into TV’s for customers. It becomes a TIVO and if you have the $$$ for a HDTV card, your HD decoder and EVERYTHING.

Also: wrt the set-top box:
That fiasco (led by the $$SOBs$$$ led by microsquish’s set-top windows box) was the reason AT&T; died (and split itself into 4 (and then sold its name to bellsouth)

And the set-top box development, as well as programming the converters, etc were the biggest delays in project.

We had an infrastructure READY to roll, before the box was even completed. But the garden programming was so convoluted, even using windows api’s , …ugh…
Markbnj

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