Cksla ~ On the subject of set top boxes - FYI
I repeat - IT's ALL ABOUT THE VIDEO! One of these days you ediggers will more fully understand this. Or should I say "Cult members" - bad joke...
The players out now are great - okay - but I want to see the Video player - the one that lets you download VH1's top 100 music videos of your choice - plus keep and playback all your MPEG4's - notice I did not say MP3 - that will be 8track soon enough.
Speaking of set top boxes, Looking at Jim Collier's corporate profile one thing does kind of grab you -
Jim Collier
President and Chief Operating Officer
Jim Collier was appointed Chief Operating Officer in May 2001. Mr. Collier has over twenty years of progressive management experience in the areas of operations, manufacturing, and product management. In addition to various management positions at Analytical Sciences, Inc., and Litton Applied Technology, Mr. Collier’s past positions include Worldwide Operations Director at General Instruments Corporation - Satellite Data Network Group, Executive Vice President/COO at CTX International, and Vice President of Operations at Executone Information Systems. Mr. Collier holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland and is a Certified Product Manager through the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Worldwide Operations Director at General Instrements - which in case you were not aware is one of, if not thee leading supplier of set top boxes to all the cable giants.
Kind of a Da-boss dot here...... but it is interesting to speculate that Jim Collier would certainally know who to talk to if e-digital had in fact a super new set top box OS >
DOS 2 MOS > people don't need PC's they need a new age video communication device - Internet Video - e -mail play games and buy something online from Amazon - hawk something on ebay.
In time my vision of the " Compuphoneavision" where your TV - computer - telephone - Internet - is all one device. Imagine an Internet Powered TV with 500000000000 stations. VOD - Music collections online etc... etc...
Thanks for doing my homework again Ckasla! Peace out!
