A call for the home media network
Home media acquisition, production, storage, and use is on the cusp of a radical change. The current home’s hodge-podge of ad-hoc analog equipment will be replaced by all-digital, networked media equipment: the Home Media Network. There is no question that this change is coming; the question is “how soon”? The goal of this paper is to spur consumer and computer manufacturers to start delivering the Home Media Network now. We hope that this discussion of the issues, the advantages, and the breakthrough possibilities will convince manufacturers not to wait any longer.
Copyright © 2003 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from Publications Dept, ACM Inc., fax +1 (212) 869-0481, or permissions@acm.org. The definitive version of this paper can be found at ACM's Digital Library -http://www.acm.org/dl/.