The siege of TV in the living room begins ( Google e Chromecast )
E’ for a few days that the news goes around that google has proposed and sold on its online store, all the Chromecast keys that you interface to the TV via hdmi, will allow the use of mobile and non-mobile tools ( smartphone, tablet, pc ) as remote controls, to enjoy internet content directly on the big screen.
Attention: compared to the competition from Apple TV and the same Google TV and Nexus Q, the contents are found on the web and not generated by external tools.
In practice, for Apple the contents are generated by smartphones or tablets with obvious problems of battery life and signal stability. Ma questo ultimo problema potrebbe affliggere anche Chromecast se la rete non avesse una velocità continuativa del flusso dati e la la banda garantita durante tutta la visione ( cosa che ne decreta il fastidioso fenomeno di visione stroboscopica o a scatti ).
Problemi pianificati e voluti in quei paesi nei quali non è garantita la banda larga….a pensare male , si potrebbe ipotizzare che tale volontà è perpetrata per difendere interessi e strutture di fornitori classici di contenuti… ma solo a pensare male 🙂
Comunque è iniziato l’assedio alle case degli utenti per poter vendere la pubblicità: the only service that creates profit and that is migrating towards operators who know how to profile communication by being aware of data that, theoretically, they should be protected by privacy…
Dynamics are mixed that are increasingly at the center of attention with implications beyond the pure commercial sector ( see the stakes that the European Commission is trying to put to the overwhelming power of the OTTs following the overt and already well-known PRISM case ).
E’ It is interesting to see how the concentric circles of the sharks towards the prey are starting to be seen: Microsoft with the XBOX ONE, Apple child iTV, Google con Chromecast gTV e nexus Q, Roku and a myriad of other operators ….all towards the TV in the living room.
In this context, a question arises: how the sacrosanct requirements of the right to privacy in one's home can be reconciled, with tools that will have sensors and that will use third-party servers to process inputs and outputs?
ComputArte has an answer: a tool that is able to process all data locally and with a security system that prevents the “escape” of the same externally!
