Re: RE: Re: RE: Windows XP Media Center Edition Review

["BEN.MCCORMACK" <ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx>]

To be fair DVDs are partially comverged already with many offering onboard
sound decoding (DTS etc) and DVD-A playback.



> > When you have a seperates system or a midi system the end result
is
> still the same
> > ; it produces sound. A midi system is NOT a converged device. It
is
> combined device
> > , something completely different.
> "Combined systems" were introduced back in the 70s as
brininging
> together what had been seen as separate technologies - recorded
music
> and radio. Back in the 60s, radio was seen, mainstream, as very
> different from recorded music. The fact that we now see them as
"the
> same thing - sound" suggests that the convergence of these
technologies
> has been complete. 
> > Anyone want to take a sportman's bet with me that the XP Media
Centre
> will NOT be as popular as Microsoft seem to think > > it
will?
> Almost...
> How about a sportsman's bet that, within 3 years, sales of
converged
> devices will overtake sales of standalone DVD players.
> Regards,
> Mark
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