the future?

[admin_exported]

ok i'll just rattle off a hypothetical scenario, i don't know if it'll ever become reality? (maybe it is already?) but howsever....

you've got a shiny new wifi enabled hdtv.

a wifi enabled blu-ray player.

an active, wifi enabled 5.1 speaker system, including preamps, dacs and a remote.

you don't have any hdmi cables or speaker cables, just power kords, ok quite a few of them

so you spin a blu-ray, the digital data is streamed to the tv, which has the necessary codecs, and you've got your hd pic.

the digital audio data is streamed to the speakers and sub, each with their own dac, you've got your hd sound.

you wan't to play a cd. so you stick it in the bdp, select stereo, and the data is streamed to the two front speakers.

you wan't to listen to spotify. pc direct to front speakers.

no avr needed either right? no stereo amp?

so all you want is a neat "little" tv stand, tv on top, centre speaker, bdp, oh, and perhaps a wifi enabled sat box.

makes for a neat system, no?

 

[Andrew Everard]

you don't have any hdmi cables or speaker cables, just power kords, ok quite a few of them

I'm sure Ray Kimber will be very happy that he's still in business in your brave new world.

 

[Anonymous]

you don't have any hdmi cables or speaker cables, just power kords, ok quite a few of them

I'm sure Ray Kimber will be very happy that he's still in business in your brave new world.

i meant the standard ones that ship with the componants, poor ray

 

[Paul.]

Since we are talking the future, all the (active) surround speakers will get their power wirelessly through electromagnetic resonance. The tv can be web enabled, so no need for physical formats like disk, keep it all on a server somewhere. Speakers will still be massive and wooden, because we are stuck in the past and we like them that way! No wires, no boxes other than tv speakers.

 

[Andrew Everard]

i meant the standard ones that ship with the componants, poor ray

Then they're not

power kords

 

[Anonymous]

i meant the standard ones that ship with the componants, poor ray

Then they're not

power kords

when i was typing out "kords" i felt it was wrong, it's american, innit?

 

[Anonymous]

Since we are talking the future, all the (active) surround speakers will get their power wirelessly through electromagnetic resonance. The tv can be web enabled, so no need for physical formats like disk, keep it all on a server somewhere. Speakers will still be massive and wooden, because we are stuck in the past and we like them that way! No wires, no boxes other than tv speakers.

i like it

 

[bigboss]

While you're in the future, your TV will be like this.

 

[Anonymous]

While you're in the future, your TV will be like this.

redecorating may get expensive

 

[Andrew Everard]

when i was typing out "kords" i felt it was wrong

Like that's ever stopped you.

it's american, innit?

Yes, Kimber is an American brand.