>>>You see the trend on PCs and TVs, people always want bigger screens. No matter how fancy or "necessary" applications or appliances they make, nothing's gonna change that. A few years ago the cellphones should always be smaller and smaller, now they are getting bigger again to be able to hold a bigger screen. Not even Google will be able to stop the evolution.
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>>It is all about comfort and practicality.
>>Meny people connect their plasma TV's on PC nowdays to watch cheap
>>movies downloaded from internet.
>>My hint is that for home entertainment (and other) purposes TV+PC+INTERNET
>>will eventually merge into one device and most of programs it will be broadcasted this way. Few internet revolutions from now we will be
>>all part of BigBrother show :)
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>These TV+PC+Internet boxes are already here, they are usually called Media Centers. I was in Berlin in August this year, at the IFA fair which is the biggest audio/video fair in the world, and where "everybody" is present to show off their new hardware. The future home, as I see it, is as follows:
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• A central unit, the Media Center, which includes tuners for TV, satelite, cable and radio, one or two big HDs, and a DVD recorder. The DVD revorder will be blueray, HD-DVD, a combination, or some new variant.
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• A huge monitor, real High Definition off course
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• A multimedia remote control
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• A full size keyboard
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• A number of active loudspeakers, meaning speaker with built-in power amplifiers

>Except for the power and antenna connections, everything will be wireless. The media center will be able to
>support multiple independent outputs, meaning that you can for instance listen to radio in the kitchen, some music in another room and watch TV in the livingroom. And if you want more storage space, you simply add one or more storage servers. I saw several of these setups in Berlin, it was really amazing.

Then handhelds are not dead meat - they will get new life by becoming RCs
for this new media-monsters <g>