Summary
I’m reviewing the debate on a Digg.com post.
This Digg debate covered several areas of understanding of the technology to bring more video options to handheld units. Many voiced their doubts about the demands in the marketplace and some explained that the market will be there as the technology matures.
The insights provided a significant amount of information that must be considered for this technology to succeed.
Articles
Small Screen Blues by Brad Linder PVRWire.com 8/13/06
See document: small-screen-blues
See also: LA Times Article: No Big Demand for Small Screen by Matea Gold
LA Times Article: No Big Demand for Small Screen by Matea Gold 8/10/06
See document: la-et-polltv10aug10,1,3332297.story
Article suggests teens will not be interested in watching videos on Small Screen products like the iPod and PSP and other devices.
Was the writing Tainted?
Poll Subjectivism at Play?
“About half of young adults and 4 in 10 teenagers said they were uninterested in watching television shows or movies on computers, cellphones or hand-held devices such as video iPods, the poll found.”
This quote from the LA times, could have easily been written to state, ‘About half of young adults and 6 in 10 teenagers said they were interested in watching television shows or movies on computers, cellphones or hand-held devices such as video iPods.’
Insights from Comments
Below are some of the insights that I pulled from this dialogue:
Understanding the medium
- PixelCloud, “Portable music is good because you don’t have to do anything to listen to it. Just press play. Watching a video requires that you watch it, and hold the device.”
- Portable DVD players are too large for watching movies in bed???
- Handheld video is great for a subway, bus, train or plane but might not be so great for people that drive cars ~ Passengers???
- Do you want to watch a small video? No Would you watch a small video? Yes
- Would Video iPods take off as educational tool? iPods had a good start thanks in small part to Duke University.
- Resolution stupid not screen size
- Having the Daily Show fresh in your Ipod every day to watch during spare intervals is Great
Obstacles
- Battery life – always a concern.
- Teens don’t dictate all markets, especially heavy business travelers – from Willynilly.
- Reflective surface on PSP makes it difficult to watch video in sunlight.
- If the price of video is right, people will watch it!
Funny Comments
Kajoob mumbled, “I’m still in the womb and I think these tiny devices are perfect for my small fetal hands and eyes.”
DesertSquirrel stated, “If you have to take a massive sh!t (explitive edited), watching TV on a small screen might be all right.”
This article was test one in the use of a new method to post articles.
I’m only about 60% satisfied with the way this effort turned out. And need to review templates and structures of the information content a little more.
The map takes almost 150 comments and boils them down to their most useful portions from the Digg article referenced. I included text from the map in the actual article to proved readers receving the feed access to the content as well as providing an explanation for the map in the first place. I’ll continue to work on this methodology.
When a user clicks on the map here, it takes them to the larger more visible version of the map, which also has embedded clickable images for relevant links. Future version will include the links within maven mapper’s as well as on the larger edition.