Buzz Out Loud Lounge: 2008 predictions
2008 predictions
by combat chuck - 1/3/08 8:07 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTthe gaming industry will contine to grow and may even see a remake of FFVII. Apple will try to further compete with Microsoft and Release the "iBox", dissaopinting sales will lead Steve Jobs to using his iPod-devouring consumer populace as his initial drones for his iBorg army. The fate of the world will be in the hands of those not assimilated (basically anyone who has a Zune, a Zen, or a Mini-Disc player will retain thier indiviuality until the iBorg Collective begins to hunt them down.)
Vista will go the way of Windows ME, I will continue to build PC's with XP for as long as I can, and Steam will still have more bugs than a bee hive. Half-Life 2 Ep 3 will release, but probably be overshadowed by FEAR 2 (Since FEAR kicked HL2's arse in many, many ways)
This year will also see the release of new Futurama episodes, and Family Guy/American Dad (what's the difference?) will still never be able to compete with anything Matt Groening makes.
Finally, and most importantly, Brave Saint Saturn will release their third album, and we will all know the fate of our brave astronauts on their way home from Titan, this release will be accompanied by the release of the DVD: The Rise and Fall of Five Iron Frenzy, and all will be well in the world of the few remaining Five Iron Fanatics.
Here's hoping for a greay 2008, and another shot for AMD to bloody Intel's nose yet again.
Please explain
by paradox5050 - 1/3/08 8:09 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTI don't understand why you feel optical drives are useless. Please tell me more.
Windows Home Server (WHS)
by tabnjasma - 1/3/08 8:25 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTI predict that (qualifying): For families with more than 2 computers in the home that the WINDOWS HOME SERVER will become as common as the IPod. I say this in light of the advent of digital multimedia HD televisions and A/V components that accommodate media streaming from a Network Attached Storage (NAT) or shared computer hard drive. Coupled with the desire to protect important data (like photos, home videos, financial records, etc.) as well as the complete contents of a hard drive on a client computer, the Windows Home Server will become an integral component in a home based computer system. With analogue television broadcasting soon to go off the air and the need to replace millions of A/V components with digitally based software and hardware electronics, the home computer/AV systems will be redesigned to incorporate digital media streaming and storage. Safeguarding that digital content will become paramount. And finally, ancillary add-ins to the Windows Home Server concept will grow to include automated home security (remote monitoring, video surveillance, etc.) as well as simple automated tasks that homeowners will come to depend on (like turning on and off lights, monitoring door locks, energy use - thermostat, and other growing automated home and green industries). I say all this because we have no longer (sadly I admit) the family environment of the Walton's, with personal family interaction at the forefront, but have become a fragmented, time-budgeted, efficiency conscious, and somewhat narcissistic society. Notwithstanding our present cultural habits, technology like the Windows Home Server and other novel technologies can either become a reinforcing agent for either kind of lifestyle depending on how it is used. For me the Windows Home Server gets me away from the computer (and computer maintenance utilities) and back in the family room to enjoy a family home movie played from my Windows Home Server of choice, the HP MediaSmart Server. Goodnight Aaron, goodnight John Boy.
Hi def players
by Juiceyj317 - 1/3/08 8:30 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTManuafacturers of DVD players will realize that if they are going to convince people to move up to High Def then they will have to make a player that plays everything you put into it, Blueray and HD-DVD. Along the lines of the DVD+ and DVD- burners, they do all formats now.
My Predictions For 2008
by vijeshsenan - 1/3/08 8:47 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTMore and more number of cores are going to be added to the processor lineups..GPU integrated along with the CPU might bring a new genre of gaming performance and revolutionize the gaming industry...
DVD/CD drive phase out
by tokenflame - 1/3/08 8:53 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTI use my DVD/CD Drive all the time, why do you predict that they will be phased out?
Simpler Computers
by jrj90620 - 1/3/08 9:00 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTHopefully someone will come along with a PC that is more like a refrigerator than a complicated,failure prone device that is currently sold.A lot of us(probably not users of this board) don't need a computer to do much.Just want it simpler,reliable and fairly fast for a decent price.
My predictions for 2008
by rkinne01 - 1/3/08 9:08 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyT1. The RIAA will step up its efforts to sue file sharing people resulting in a huge consumer back lash. In other words expect to see CD sales to decrease big time this year, illegal downloads will pick up the slack.
2. The HD and Blue Ray war will rage on with no clear winner this year, most consumers will still be on the fence with this one.
3. PC game sales will continue to grow, look for new games to keep the sales going and expansion packs from this years games will keep things interesting.
4. Apple's I-Phone will get some competition from a phone that wlll be able to activated on ANY network.
My Wish
by Call_Me - 1/3/08 9:33 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTNot so much a prediction as a wish: I adore/covet/love the iPhone, in theory. However, I'm bummed that THEY lock you into what you want to use on the screen. I never-ever will be checking STOCKS, UTUBE, or use I-TUNES (having another MP3 player, already), and I think EBAY is also an option.
I wish another company, even Apple, would make a stripped down iPhone that had the calendar/internet/camera options minus the price charged for the other bells & whistles.
Yeah, I realize that I could buy the iPhone and NOT use those options but that' like buying a convertible for Antartica: I doubt the top will come down too often.
I can't believe that another company hasn't come out with a competitive phone that allows you to customize it, much as you can customize your computer's tool bar.
Oh well ~sigh~
2008 predictions
by bigmikd - 1/3/08 9:50 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTdvds, cds going away...dwnloads and high def formats(mostly blu ray for home, hd dvd with comps)taking over. wireless cnx in hometheater more common, streaming, etc... full intergration of home systems like a/c, communications, security, appliances, door locks, everything with special remotes and upperline cell phones. no voice or touch screen yet.
media servers, octa cores, 64Gb Solid State HDs
by shadowfire87 - 1/3/08 10:24 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTThe push for a media server in every household will blast off. We will see talk about the first consumer octa core processors (Core 2 Duo Octa?!?!)and the solid state hard drives will reach 64 Gb.
IPTV goes mainstream
by bigRoN18 - 1/3/08 10:25 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTIPTV will take a much stronger foothold into America's homes, increasing the competition with traditional cable television services. IPTV has the capacity to carry essentially unlimited channels in both SD and HDTV. With the increasing purchase of HDTV televisions, more consumers will want HDTV content and cable will have difficulty due to antiquated architecture. AT&T will move to fiber-to-the-home instead of "to-the-curb", increasing overall bandwidth to its customers, increasing bandwidth to handle more televisions with its UVerse service. Smaller regional telephone companies will consolidate due to the demands for IPTV via fiber service.
2008 the year in review
by SeanBlader - 1/3/08 10:46 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyT2008 saw no relief for the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD format war, but with continual improvements in drive capacity, it no longer matters. For the price of a place to store all your discs you can now buy additional drive space for your media server and watch whichever movie you want on demand from any TV in your home.
Battery tech is taking steps to becoming the world saving technology it needs to be, and in 2009 you'll see the start of next generation batteries from Firefly Energy and production tests starting for lithium-silicon (Li-Si) batteries developed at the end of 2007 at Stanford.
Firefox 3 was released with support for offline web applications, nearly removing the need for MS office when you can do most of the same basic things with Google Docs.
It's looking like 2000 to 2009 to be a transition decade to the real future we all expected to come in the 21st century, that should come about in 2010.
Predictions are for suckers
by Ivan Thomson - 1/3/08 10:56 AM In reply to: 2008 predictions by thriftyTPredictions are for suckers so here is what will happen in 2008; Projection based upon based history of technology;
In 2008 more useless rubbish with a design obsolescence and over priced, manufactured in china by really poor people getting paid next to nothing and consumed by a dwindling and over taxed western middle class.
Basically, more plastic stuff that will cost you a bundle, excite you for a while then it will become another piece of plastic trash.
So whatever technology you buy in 2008 for a bunch of money you could have waited and bought in 2009 for next to nothing once the true value of the product if factored into the market.
So basically technology in 2008 will be the same ol' story at 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004...1990, 1989, 1988...1960... and so on.
Wow, maybe they will make an iPod with 500GB of storage or 1TB of storage or .... who cares.
Maybe they will make a new iPhone that does basically the same damned thing is a slightly different way...WOW!
How how about a new media format...BluRay or HD-DVD getting replaced by Even High Def-DVD or UltraBluRay so that you can go buy all 2,000 of your movies all over again.
Or how about a 256 inch TV as thin as wallpaper so you can just like it like a stamp and paste it to your living room wall. Not sure why you care about how big the TV is or how skinny it is...but OK!
Or how about a new 8 gigahertz 128 bit 16 core laptop with 1TB of RAM that can actually run Windows Vista! So we can actually get those WORD documents typed up 0.0018 secs faster so we can do even more work for our boss! YEAH!!!
Or maybe it will be a software revolution this year. Software with a 512 page license agreement that requires you to give Microsoft your first born child in sacrifice to be able to open open-source file formats in Office.
Or how about 40x Broadband speed internet so you can sit there staring at your web browser with nothing to do because the entire internet downloaded in 0.56 secs and filled up all your RAID storage.
Or perhaps Linux will actually get a clue this year and make proper interface for the computing masses that they have been promising for as long as MS has promised a proper OS upgrade.
So yeah... it looks like 2008 will shape up just like every other year when it comes to technology. More expensive stuff that becomes digital garbage in a shorter and shorter life cycle.
I like the way you think
by luc-mobile - 1/3/08 7:47 PM In reply to: Predictions are for suckers by Ivan ThomsonReally.
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