Lawrence points me to this article about industry execs pondering the next big thing in the consumer electronics market. It mentions all the pieces to the wireless Internet receiver.
"Digital content is portable, it's not confined to a particular physical player like a phonograph or CD deck. You can store and acquire it in a central location and then move it to wherever you want to experience it."
Yes! Portable. But I don't want to have to store and acquire into some big device in my house. It wants to be portable, and not just portable around the house.
"But however the network emerges, it must be robust, low in cost and must support streaming media at relatively high speeds."
Yes, high speed streaming of data. Right to the device in my pocket.
"Hamady further suggested that fixed wireless would emerge as the broadband connection to the home,"
Ok, but why not have a wide area fixed network that would provide the connection to the device in my pocket everywhere I go, not just in my house?
"Baktha added that the volume of storage that would be required of the media gateway would be enormous."
No! Don't do something totally wierd and try to duplicate all this digital content in everyone's house. Why not store it in a few places and then just stream it out to the device in my pocket? Then you don't duplicate all this data all over the place. I don't want to have to carry 200 Gobwoka Bytes of data in my pocket.
Panelists agreed that as the home media center takes off, it will become the driving market for mass storage and storage-area networking, dwarfing the enterprise market, and with huge consequences for the rotating media and SAN industries. "There are already people building hierarchical storage networks with mixed magnetic and optical storage for home media," Baktha said.
No! I don't want to become a data center manager. I'm going to have to deal with a "hierarchical storage network"? Say What! "with mixed magnetic and optical storage for home media", are you kidding me? I can barely say that much less figure out how to manage it.
Why? I'm not good at managing the 40 Gigabytes I have right now. And you want me to do it with 200 Gigabytes and more? I don't think so. Leave that to the data storage experts, I'll just tell the device what I want to hear, read, watch and it will get it for me and start streaming it over that high speed streaming thing they just talked about. Please, and Thank You.
I want my Streaming Internet Receiver please!
2:55:39 PM 
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